This is a silly formulaic rom-com. Amy Acker plays Sophie the same way she plays every role; hesitant speech, fixed, semi-smile regardless of the line she's delivering and heavenward gaze with her eyes, rolled around at every opportunity as if someone told her she has expressive eyes, so she works them at every opportunity. The plot is thin: book critic unknowingly falls in love with the author of a book she's slammed. Sophie is supposed to be a writer and literary critic, in line for a New York magazine job, yet acts like an unsophisticated bumpkin, agog being seated in First Class, taking a selfie while riding in a limo "because her friends will never believe it!" Oh please. Liam is supposedly a very successful author of best-sellers but he's wowed by this small town, cardigan wearing woman who stalks him when he meets with a client and talks with "other women." I give it 3 stars only because the other cast members are OK (even if there IS a token, wise black man friend!) and the scenery is lovely. Shot in wonderfully scenic British Columbia, I'm always puzzled why the writers just don't set the films there; why must BC always "fill in " for US locations? Are we so parochial that we won't watch a movie set outside the US? Sheeesh.
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