This contemporary movie about dating concentrates on these dating organizations that tend to get people to meet and wed. Here is a contemporary story where 2 people of rival firms come together and love blossoms.
A major fault in this interesting film is the appearance of the nun, who is friendly to our heroine. This woman is as much a nun as the late Ida Kaminska!
Dyan Cannon and Hal Linden star as a couple who meet and appear to be mismatched, certainly by the standards of Cannon's daughter, Faith Ford, our heroine in this 2008 film. The best part is is that they are totally comparable and their quick marriage should come as no surprise.
The film also deals with a widower's 2 daughters who make the match between their father and Ford. Love seems to blossom until Ford finds out that her lover owns the competitive agency.
Naturally, an accident in the family brings the couple together.
Plot summary
They say the cobbler's children go barefoot, but must the matchmaker's children go motherless? After their widower father moves to a new town and sets up a computerized matchmaking business, two girls set out to find a stepmother. They create a dating application in the company computer for him. Then they cull through all new women applicants to hand pick the perfect woman for him and force the computer to match them. They don't know the woman they picked is the proprietor of the old-fashioned matchmaking service in town who is planning to prove the computer matching is incompetent.
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Old style vs tech matchmaking
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 .
a very sweet movie!
i loved it, it was lots of fun and i thought the couple had immediate chemistry, plus his daughters were super cute!
i love how they both have clearly different personality, everything flowed flawlessly for a hallmark film until the end where they rushed it a bit with your typical extreme situation that brings everyone back together in the nick of time but really its a quibble in the overall fact that i enjoyed it, i even clapped at the end!
sometimes you're just in the mood for a wholesome love story that the whole family can watch without worrying about inappropriate scenes and language, also i thought it was very interesting take showing the personal lives and struggles of the people behind these online matchmaking business, kinda reminded me of "you've got mail"