Aloha With Love

/ Rebekahrox

Lots of Crying

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This one was pretty good with some problems. I liked the actress who played the female lead. Tiffany Smith had unusual strong features that went beyond typically pretty. She reminded me of Jamie Gertz. However, I usually do not appreciate the ubiquitous Trevor Donovan, an often used actor for Hallmark and its clones. This one was on UPtv. He is just so BLOND. His acting is no more than competent and brings nothing special to roles, except a very muscular chest which is shirtlessly shown off to great effect here. He is very popular though, apparently. It’s a me problem.

Gemma is a star architect who works with her boyfriend of 4 years, a realtor, who also works at their firm. She presents a top-notch brilliant proposal for a condominium to a developer. He is crass and insulting to her, presumably because she is a woman. And even though she answers all the questions with which he had hoped to trip her up, he turns the firm down and rudely walks out using the excuse that there are 66 units rather than the 76 he had asked for. Her boyfriend blames her and behaves like a jackass. So right away you hate the guy and are rooting for her to break-up with him. And she does! So now I’m a fan even though she cries about losing him for some reason.

She gets word that her beloved aunt has passed away (more crying) in Hawai’i and has left her valuable property, and a not-so-valuable house to her and her sister to sell or keep as they wish. The one condition is that they have to restore and renovate the tumbledown house first and use Trevor as the contractor who (shocker!) happens to be Gemma’s ex. Obviously we have a “matchmaking from the grave” situation.

All procedes very predictably with the two clashing over the job at first. She just wants a “refresh” so she can get back to her career in L.A. quickly, and he wants the complete renovation the house deserves. They learn to work together, and romance boringly ensues. But Uh oh. Here comes the old boyfriend all contrite because now she’s rich. And he wants her to sell the property to creepy condominium developer and she actually agrees to it. So now I am not such a fan.

We have a very long mawkish sappy scene with Gemma’s father crying about his sister, and a nothing short of miraculous transformation of a shack to house beautiful in 48 hours. Seeing the house as it was meant to be causes Gemma to rethink the sale (just as Trevor predicted). She is still unsure but thanks to her jackass ex publicly and suspiciously  proposing marriage right there on the lawn and arrogant condominium guy stupidly insulting her again (!) (he just can’t help himself) she comes to her senses. And throughout we have many crying scenes too numerous to explain.

So lots of crying (bad) spectacular scenery (good), male costar I don’t like (bad), new fresh female lead (good), strong supporting characters (good). Impossibly speedy home renovation (complete with Art)-(bad), and impossibly stupid bad guys (bad). Also it was tremendously risky of Trevor to renovate a house, spending dozens of thousands of dollars when chances were it would be demolished in a week or two (bad). It’s a Hallmark 6.

Rating: 6 out of 10.

May 8, 2022

18 thoughts on “Aloha With Love”

  3. Boy have I got one for you if you haven’t already seen it. This is how you make a movie on a $250,000 budget! The guy who stars in it also wrote it! The girl that stars in it also wrote the soundtrack and get this…it’s her first and only movie!! He and She and the director are all from Nebraska!! This is how it’s done!! I hate using up your space that it doesn’t belong in so I picked a review that probably won’t get in anyone’s way.

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12399724/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_q_a%2520chance%2520encounter

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  4. Her team is awful but she is still putting up good numbers, including a bunch of first all-time things!! The poor coach must be under incredible pressure and I hope some people in the front office are too…..she didn’t compile that team. No defense and they aren’t getting her the ball or setting screens and she averaged 19 shots a game in college and it’s around 9 or 10 now. Once she passes the ball to someone she might as well head back down the court and start playing defense because she isn’t going to get it back. I don’t understand. I have followed her games so far because the sociological drama is fascinating but I’m about to quit. I’m probably not alone either. They are really pounding on her!!! Even Aliyah Boston has been pretty much missing in action.

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      • Check it out. Tonight’s game should be interesting. Everybody including announcers has been so woke about the issue but it’s become glaringly obvious finally and we’ll see. Check it out and watch Angel Reese on the bench support it support it. Type this in on Youtube:

        Chennedy Carter gets Flagrant 1 call for shove on Caitlin Clark

         

         

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  5. Something else for you that’s not apropos of anything so I’ll hide it here. This most certainly isn’t your sort of thing but the thing is that Katharine Emmens wrote it, directed it, produced it, edited it and starred in it. Since I woefully lack your way with words I tell friends to start out watching it until you can’t take any more and then jump to 53:00 and see it out. 🙂

    https://www.lookmovie2.to/movies/play/1693828276-life-in-color-2015#

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  6. Good. I just watched it again and this time I watched the entire thing. It made a difference! 🙂 It’s from 2015 and she hasn’t done a single thing since????

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