Color Me You

My wife and I found this movie on Amazon streaming, it features Waco and Baylor, where the young star is from, and Dallas, where the director is from.

Kaley Caperton, Waco native who in fact is a very accomplished songwriter and singer, plays the featured role of Kat Abernathy. It is a familiar story, parents expect her to become one thing, in this case a lawyer to join the family law firm, but drawing and painting are her real passions. Her dad understands her, but her mother doesn't.

So she goes off to study but soon adopts two identities, her real one in studying law but an assumed name for her artistic endeavors. Situations arise, a love interest included, until Kat and her parents can achieve a resolution they can all live with.

My wife and I enjoyed it as light entertainment, but the script is highly variable, it works pretty well often but in all scenes involving conflict, like when the mother confronts her daughter at the art museum, nothing rings true. Several of the actors over-act very annoyingly. It just demonstrates how difficult it is to write a really good script, and how much really good actors bring to making it seem real. The actors here are mostly inexperienced, working with a spotty script, and it shows.

I know actors and filmmakers have to start somewhere and this one isn't all bad, but compared to really well-made movies it comes up way short.