No Cents and No Sense

The sets looked like Hobby-Lobby threw up all over them, after which a few “set decorators” came in to rearrange and evenly distribute the detritus on fences, wind it around pillars in the form of garlands,  and glue it to indoor and outdoor walls. Orange and yellow leaves and things made out of orange and yellow leaves were all over the place. This movie was not produced by Hallmark but purchased by them from another production company.  I hope they got a good deal.

The plot was the often used “rich heiress loses her fortune but finds the true happiness in the simple life” with a healthy dose of “fish out of water.” Often the key to her awakening is bonding with a child of some sort and a handsome man who is often the father of said child. In this one, it is a pig and a handsome farmer. June (Jodie Sweetin) is reduced to sleeping in her car after losing her entire fortune, but luckily inherits a farm mansion  near Greenville, State Unknown, from a little-known (but beloved!) Aunt. The state is unknown but it is in America, in the country, and they grow a lot of apples there. Also a lot of deciduous trees with lots of autumn-colored leaves. All proceeds as usual, including a Fall Harvest Festival and a pie baking competition. My main concern with all this was how an Oxford-educated woman could lose her entire fortune to the cryptocurrency crash and never have an inkling as to what was going on. Or was it her business manager who invested all of her money in Shitcoin? In which case, why wasn’t he fired? Later he finds her grandfather’s 1980s stock portfolio somewhere mysterious, and thanks to Grandpa buying Apple for $22 a share, her fortunes and her PJs (Private Jets) are restored to her.

Strangely, I didn’t hate this. I really don’t know why. It had kind of a simple comforting vibe. I like Jodie Sweetin although this was not her best effort, and Corey Sevier who played Bart, the organic farmer, has been excellent depending on the role. His role in this one was bland, and he did that great. I really liked Ann Pirvu who played his sister, and Jenni Burke made the most out of her small role as the pie judge. There were some amusing lines in the script here and there, and the basic plot was as serviceable as the riches-to-rags and back-to-riches trope usually is. I can’t give it more than 5 stars. I guess my one-word summary of the whole thing would be “innocuous.”