Sunday, April 12, 2020

Movie: True Love Blooms (2019) *

True Love Blooms is a Hallmark production about a happy woman named Vikki who loves plants and community. She runs a community garden and soon finds out the owner of the land has sold it to a developer who plans to build condos on the site. She meets the developer, Chase, played by Jordan Bridges, and clearly they are going to fall in love. She decides to get the other gardeners together to protest.
Boring acting, bad pacing, transitions between scenes were milder than jolting. The lines that are supposed to be kickers are so bad:
Vikki George: When I put my mind to something it usually happens.

Chace Devine: Well when I set my mind to something it happens as well.

Vikki: Well good! We have one thing in common.

Chace: Yes, but that means we have an impasse, too.

Vikki: But there a way over any impasse (she says with a confident smile as she walks out the door. He watches her leave with a smitten and impressed chuckle.)
At 27 minutes in I didn’t see any way this movie could improve so I pressed stop. I was sad it didn’t work out because I am a fan of Jordan Bridges.
  • Cheesy or sentimental: Cheesy 
  • Production value: Low-ball Hallmark 
  • Suspension of belief: high 
  • Trope: Enemies to Lovers 
  • Diversity: colorful supporting characters 
  • Paranormal: None 
  • Clownish character: None 
Rating scale: Not Fun; One star*
I checked this DVD out from the library. 

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