Posts Tagged ‘Rating: 2.5 Stars’
‘Prime’ (2005) Review
Prime Synopsis: A career driven professional from Manhattan is wooed by a young painter, who also happens to be the son of her psychoanalyst. Shortly after signing divorce papers, 37-year-old Rafi (Uma Thurman) meets David Bloomberg (Bryan Greenberg), a young artist fourteen years her junior. The two hit it off despite the age difference, and…
Read More‘The DUFF’ (2015) Review
The DUFF Synopsis: A high school senior instigates a social pecking order revolution after finding out that she has been labeled the DUFF – Designated Ugly Fat Friend – by her prettier, more popular counterparts. After being told that she’s the DUFF (designated ugly fat friend) to her two more attractive best friends, Bianca (Mae…
Read More‘Resort to Love’ (2021) Review
Resort to Love Synopsis: Erica, who ends up as the entertainment at her ex-fiancé’s wedding after reluctantly taking a gig at a luxurious island resort while in the wake of a music career meltdown. Netflix rom-coms are very hit or miss (usually more miss these days), so I did not go into Resort to Love with very…
Read More‘Just Go With It’ (2011) Review
Just Go With It Synopsis: On a weekend trip to Hawaii, a plastic surgeon convinces his loyal assistant to pose as his soon-to-be-divorced wife in order to cover up a careless lie he told to his much-younger girlfriend. As with every Happy Madison Production, there are both upsides and downsides to Just Go With It.…
Read More‘The Wedding Date’ (2005) Review
The Wedding Date: Single-girl anxiety causes Kat Ellis to hire a male escort to pose as her boyfriend at her sister’s wedding. Her plan, an attempt to dupe her ex-fiancé, who dumped her a couple years prior, proves to be her undoing.
Read More‘Overboard’ (1987) Review
Overboard Synopsis: A cruel but beautiful heiress mocks and cheats a hired carpenter. When she gets amnesia after an accident, he decides to introduce her to regular life by convincing her they’re husband and wife. Joanna is a spoiled heiress who refuses to pay Dean, a carpenter, for work done on her yacht. Later, when…
Read More‘Coming 2 America’ (2021) Review
Coming 2 America: The African monarch Akeem learns he has a long-lost son in the United States and must return to America to meet this unexpected heir and build a relationship with his son.
Read More‘And So It Goes’ (2014) Review
And So It Goes: A self-absorbed realtor enlists the help of his neighbor when he’s suddenly left in charge of the granddaughter he never knew existed until his estranged son drops her off at his home.
Read More‘The Princess Switch’ (2018) Review
The Princess Switch Synopsis: Competing in a Christmas baking competition in Belgravia, a Chicago baker bumps into the prince’s fiancée–who looks just like her. They switch lives for two days. When her sous chef, Kevin, entered her in a prestigious baking competition, Stacy traveled to the kingdom of Belgravia to take part. There with Kevin…
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