Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
LeAnn Rimes | ... | Meg Galligan | |
Eddie Cibrian | ... | Nate Burns | |
Greg Lawson | ... | Ed Woolcott | |
Rosanna Arquette | ... | Charlene Galligan | |
Jayne Eastwood | ... | Mayor Hopp | |
William MacDonald | ... | Deputy Otto Gruber | |
Christianne Hirt | ... | Carrie Hawbacker | |
Adrian Hough | ... | John | |
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Billy Merasty | ... | Jacob |
David Lawrence Brown | ... | Max Hawbacker (as David Brown) | |
Marty Antonini | ... | Bing | |
Justin Michael Carriere | ... | Jim Mackie (as Justin Michael Carrier) | |
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David Cowley | ... | Bill Mackie |
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Alex Arsenault | ... | Stephen Thompson (as Alexander Arsenault) |
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Rod Heatherington | ... | Sgt. Coben |
Nate Burns, a former Baltimore city homicide detective, is the new police chief in sleepy Lunacy, Alaska. The job comes with a free room in the 'lodge', the town's multi-purpose inn, pub etcetera run by 'loose' flirter Charlene Galligan. Sole deputy Otto Gruber is among the failed local applicants. Shortly after Nate gets on sensual-bickering terms with Charlene's fickle, estranged daughter, pilot Meg, lost mountaineers find the frozen corps of Meg's dad Pat, missing for 15 years. State police sergeant Coben dubiously claims jurisdiction and flies out the body. Nate soon discovers nothing is as it seems after Lunatic newspaper editor Max Hawbacker is found shot, with a fake suicide PC note 'I killed Pat'. Uncovering more past secret proves dangerous for dogs, Nate and his job. Written by KGF Vissers
Someone should tell LeAnn Rimes that simply reading the lines with a bitchy attitude doesn't make you an actress. I was never a huge fan of Meg in the novel, but Rimes managed to suck what I did like right from the character.
I understand that an adaptation has to change things in the screen version, but is it necessary to strip all the good stuff? I made it through the first half hour of this mess and I had to turn it off. A complete disappointment with none of the atmosphere that sucked me in while reading the book. Eddie Cibrian was fine as Nate, but I missed the setup to the story that had been done in the novel -- with Nate settling in as sheriff that really made the book for me. It was a murder mystery sure, but there were more to it in the book and I missed that in this adaptation.
This is just like the 2007 collection that aired -- I could only get myself through one of out of the four movies more than once. They keep taking Nora Roberts and pairing her wonderful novels to barely anything at all. Why does a mediocre guy like Nicholas Sparks get all of his novels on the big screen and Nora gets no special treatment beyond stunt casting?