A Kiss at Midnight

I thought this approach was a little bit on the different side. First with the leads coming from different approaches to matchmaking and then throw in the kids' involvement. Certainly there are many movies out there where the child or children of one lead somehow bring the couple together, but in this case, they really get hands on andscreen the profiles themselves and conspire with their choice.

A hidden secret or lie is a common plot device, but in this movie it's handled a little differently both in how it creates the conflict and how it's revealed. I'm not sure how you can say that the climax is predictable. Certainly the result is what you always expect from Levinson and Hallmark, but I don't see how you could have predicted the climatic crisis. Then things wrap up pretty quickly. This movie resists tying up every little detail, which is refreshing, but maybe that's more how they did things a decade ago.

Faith Ford creates a likeable Susan. The period of bliss is short before the conflict so there was some chemistry with Cameron Daddo but not enough in my book. My take on the reason there was not enough is because Susan and Josh's story was diluted by Susan's mom's story which saps screen time from the main event. The movie had two well known veteran stars in Hal Linden and Dyan Cannon and it had to use them.

Completely side note: the older daughter haunted me many times from certain angles, shades of Maisie Williams .