The brazilian babe was great...she had a sweet demeanor and a certain charm that any guy could fall for except the dumb arse dean cain....oh, he might have been okay without his comic relief that was more of a more beer no show...bill engvall made the film fail from the get go ... get rid of engvall and it works

Juliana Paes is a sizzling Brazilian actress and this movie plays to her strengths without crossing over into nudity. Sometimes Juliana is preening for effect and at other times she manages to inject some heart and compassion into her lines.

Dean Cain does his best to support Paes. He is supposed to look like a typical man who is overly impressed by the sexy lady and therefore looks a little clumsy. In the romantic moments he holds up his end but doesn't shine.

It is a pleasant enough love story and of course we know how it has to end. There are really no twists or surprises.

However the ending doesn't totally make sense since it never explains how Ana will get the money she needs to pay her debt, but who knows, maybe the place is worth enough to mortgage it. Also, she leaves abruptly and must still think that Jake is making up to his wife and that she may no longer be the ex, but Ana comes back anyway. Maybe we are supposed to believe she came back for love of the countryside.

It's a romance story, so those frequently don't make sense.

The premise of the movie turns on a Will leaving a Bed & Breakfast to Dean Cain's character. The testator was an old lady that wrote her will by hand, then dated and signed it. The local attorney, in a stunning display of malpractice, claims that the will is invalid. This is so fundamentally wrong that it boggles the mind. Perhaps the writer should have done some research or asked a California attorney about the law, and learned that such a will is called a holographic will, and is perfectly legal in most of the States, including California. Then to add insult to injury, a supposed mediation judge working barefooted out of a small decrepit trailer is called in, and he too fails to recognize a holographic will, rules for the intestate heir (Juliana Paes),then compounds his idiocy by demanding $700 for a five minute session. I love the smell of contrivance in the morning. Juliana Paes is wonderful, as is Dean Cain, but there is no hiding from a dumb plot.