Summer in the City

Taylor Morgan (Julianna Guill) manages a clothing store in small town Ohio. Customer Alyssa (Vivica A. Fox) is impressed with her. She turns out to be the owner of a Manhattan clothing boutique. She recruits Taylor to work for her. Mindy (Marla Sokoloff) and Courtney (Christie Burke) are shocked to be working under the newcomer. Worst of all, Mindy is forced to take her in. Philip Bartell (Marc Bendavid) falls for her and helps her find an apartment. Kendall (Natasha Henstridge) is a famous customer.

Manhattan is an important part of the story but this is filmed in Vancouver. It's not the first movie to do the New York for somewhere else. Guill probably spent a day shooting some exterior shots in Manhattan and there is plenty of stock footage. Also she may not fit in the small town girl role. Hailing a taxi is so 2000. The fish out of water scenes don't really work. She should not quit. The story requires her to be fired. She should not be going back home to Ohio which would not require Alyssa to go all the way there to retrieve her. All in all, it's a simple story with some interesting actresses that I haven't seen in awhile. It has its difficulties but gets to the required spots. It's not the worst Hallmark.