Mira Simon (Jessica Szohr) dreams of the perfect life. Her co-worker friend Jonah has a crush on her. It's April Fool's Day. Sophie tries to set her up but Mira pretends Liam as her new boyfriend. She delivers papers to a nice apartment and pranks her roommates that it's her new place. She pranks Jonah that she got a big promotion from CEO Erin Billings (Deidre Hall) and then she gets stuck in the elevator with her. Suddenly, all of her pranks come true but her new perfect life isn't quite as good as expected.
This is a Hallmark movie. It's not a sin but this is so bland. It is lifeless. Jessica Szohr is a perfectly engaging lead. Jonah has the potential for a nice rom-com but he is no more than a side character. This simply lacks substance.
Lucky in Love
2014
Action / Comedy / Drama / Romance
Lucky in Love
2014
Action / Comedy / Drama / Romance
Plot summary
Mira has her fantasy life all mapped out. She eventually wants to be the CEO of a Fortune 500 company, much like the one for which she works currently as a Project Manager, Your Page, a social media website. She highly respects the company's current CEO, Erin, but has problems trying to get ideas past her overworked boss, Michael, to get to Erin. She wants to marry a handsome and successful man, much like Liam, a local restaurateur she read about in a feature magazine article. And as much as she loves hanging out with her roommate Brooke and their mutual friend Kelsea, she wants a fancy apartment of her own, which she can ill afford at this stage of her life. On April 1st, a day she hates because of all the pranks, separate April Fool's jokes lead to the trifecta of her fantasy life coming true. She, able to make her pitch of a total website rework to Erin, is promoted to Vice-President of Creative Development, leapfrogging over a surprised Michael, who was expecting the promotion. With the job comes a corporate townhouse with all the bells and whistles. And that same day, she literally bumps into Liam the restaurateur, the two who seem to hit it off at first sight. Quietly watching Mira start to date a successful, handsome man is Jonah, a graphic designer at Your Page and her best friend at work. Everyone at Your Page except Mira can see that Jonah is in love with her. Beyond being with Mira, Jonah has his own fantasy life, which includes being a successful author of a series of children's books, his lead character who he has modeled after Mira, the character who, in the end, sees the error in her fantasy to see that her fantasy was always staring her in the face. As Mira's fantasy life takes hold, she finds that it isn't all it's cracked up to be. With all the work pressures, including being thrown a major curve ball by competitors, Mira ends up turning into another "Michael", and not an "Erin" as she so admires. She finds that she feels alone in the large townhouse far away from her friends. And despite Liam being a doting boyfriend, he does what he believes he needs to be that good boyfriend rather than what Mira truly needs. Beyond getting over the work issues, Mira has to figure out how to make herself happy again. But she may come to the conclusions too late to find that real happiness that was always staring her in the face.
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Her Lucky Day-Lucky in Love ***
Perhaps, if they played You'd Be So Easy to Love as the title theme song as the credits came out, this would have enhanced this film.
Mira is played by someone who resembles Anne Bancroft in her early years. She strives for perfection and seems to hit the jackpot in one day, when she gets stuck in the elevator with her top executive and shows her an idea she has for their computer social network business.Her immediate boss had really ignored her and was up for a top promotion. She gets the top position instead and meets the guy of her dreams in a chance meeting all in one day.
The film tries to bring out that getting your wish isn't everything, especially the financial angle as well.
The film reinforces the idea that the best management allows for collective collaboration and interaction among its employees to attain their ideas.
Pleasant and predictable
Jessica Szhor of Gossip Girl plays an executive who gets a promotion upwards and meets her prince charming. However when she gets her promotion she struggles with being the boss instead of the underling and also has no place in her life for her new guy.
There is a fairly predictable story about how she can't have it all - the career and the guy. It is so impossible? What's the message anyway - you can't have both? Jessica looks prettier than in GG. Wouldn't have pegged her look for the romantic lead always though she is more the supporting best friend. But she cleans up nicely. Benjamin Hollingsworth is her good friend who is secretly in love with her. The ending is predicable.