Two slightly damaged people are the subject of this slightly different romance. She was sick and now she is in remission. He went through a devastating divorce. It's not chirpy romance here so if you are sick of Hallmark perkiness this is a change. I found it a bit gloomy.

The movie starts strong. Boy puts foot in mouth in front of girl. Then realizes there is a spark. Girl also realizes a spark but doesn't want to pursue it. Through flashbacks, we see girl is sick. And we see girl has a friend. We learn boy had someone, and then come to find out it was a wife who cheated on him. Devastated him so he moves home to regroup.

Boy and girl do the usual dance of liking each other, being upset with each other; again pretty well done. She doesn't want him digging into her background or whats going on with her.

Finally comes to a head when he finds out that ex-wife is now pregnant, after only a few months of being divorced. He wanted a family she didn't. Realizes she just didn't want a family with him. He explodes and some fall out lands on her, though his mom explains that he is not mad at her. He goes back to Boston to wok on other projects cause hes been neglecting them for girl.

Girl has gotten an offer to go to Vermont to paint a mural in another hospital. Night of the unveiling of her current project, where the two had met, he shows up. Of course she's pissed. A person disappears with no contact. So again, understandably so. He then explains to her about what had happened and that he couldn't go through loosing someone, etc. Standard and typical of someone who has had their heart broken and trying to rebuild and find it so as able to give to someone else.

Again all pretty standard and nicely done. But shes not having any of it. Its her way; live her life with the time she has, etc.

Here is where I realized that she has had a chip on her shoulder from the beginning, but I was letting it go as I figure that was what part of the movie was about. Ok, I can see where she is a bit hurt, but he came back and he explained why. It could have been a realization that this man, who really is still hurting over the loss, is trying to hand her the bits and pieces of his heart and tell her that he loves her.

She of course leaves.

Near the end he comes back and really tries to explain to her what she means to him; and there is a great part in there about how when his dad was in a hospital they had spotted a mural and how it had helped both of them. He said he finally realized that it had been one of hers. Fall in to each arms, he proposes, again quite nice. Wedding at the end, fade to black.

What I had hoped would have happened is that she should've have seen that he too was going through something and said those two magic words, "I understand." If that did happen, I missed it. Should it have happened? In my opinion, yes.

After all of this, I realized that it was all about her. Yes, she was sick, but now in remission. Its sad that her friend died and gave her a list of things that she never did and passed it onto her, so she could live and find life. She also gave her a vehicle and money; so she didn't have to charge for any of her paintings. After all of that, in my mind, she became a spoiled brat. She can say I am living life, I am doing things that my friend never got to do., etc. You either understand or I don't want anything to do with you. I would have been more impressed if she didn't have a lot of money and was still doing those things. But of course you have to have money to sky dive, travel, cost of expenses while you travel, 'living'. And, again, in my opinion, there are a lot of things out there that doesn't cost money and what I would consider living life. The butterfly conservatory was a nice touch though.

Though she might be considered 'redeemed' at the end, I don't know. Usually I love this kind of movie; especially when it has a more unique way of getting two people together. I don't know. He was too fresh out a marriage, and she - well, she is talented and its a great things she does. But she is too focused on checking off her list, again, in my opinion, to actually be living. Its like a list that you have to get through. Not that you want to get through. I think the list actually did the reverse and kept her from living.

Nice movie, but there are better out there.

This made for TV Movie is LOOSELY based of THE LAST CHANCE MAVERICK by CHRISTYNE BUTLER.

The premise of two broken people is still in this uptv/Hallmark movie, but the situations are so different.

The book is about JONAH and VANESSA. Vanessa is new to Rust Creek Falls, and Jonah/Jonathan, is back after eight years.

Both of them are wounded, and in the book, Vanessa, her friend Adele's recent death devastated her, making her almost lose all ability to paint.

The take of the movie is quite different. I agree with phd-travel, the approach is quite gloomy, but there are lots of inspirational stuff here and there.

KIMBERLY-SUE MURRAY is so beautiful. It's so understandable why as Vanessa, Nate Dalton would be smitten.

She is a traveling artist here, painting it forward, because she was blessed by her best friend, SAMANTHA(Adele in the book),with her trust fund, and a bucket list.

JOSH DEAN is not bad to look at, but at first I thought Ms. Murray was too gorgeous for him, but he grows on you. Later in the movie I saw the balance, and other reviewers elsewhere saw it too(I don't wanna pretend I didn't read other reviews).

They do have something beautiful going. Conflicts here and there, but you would also grow to love the people around them. The kids(I just hope a certain kid did not try to show he was painting, because it became obvious somebody else painted it),Iris (KELLY BISHOP),Wallace(MICHAEL BROWN),and Carolyn(LILY GAO) plus dear Dr. Lawrence(MÉLANIE ST-PIERRE) are characters that became dear to me while watching this movie.

There were some lines that I questioned and made me thing, "So now that she's ____ he..."

What else?

Oh, those people who always complain about "cliffhanger" kisses won't be kissed deprived here.

I guess that's it.

Thanks for your time.