A Lifelong Love

A Lifelong Love had a great premise, two former college sweethearts where going to team up to write a book about romance as that track down the high school sweetheart of one of their grandparents, interviewing people they meet in the way about their love stories. In probably the laziest writing I have ever seen on a Hallmark romance....they set up the interviews along the way, but then never share the live stories. That was a true bait and switch in my opinion...to walk you up to the story and then go to commercial never to follow up on the actual love story. Also, very little time was given to either main love story...the grandparent's or the former college sweethearts. Then there was a poor twelve year old girl who is drug around for the process and struggling because her parents were separating? Was that necessary or pivotal to this romantic plot? I am not going to waste anymore time on this hallmark romance and my advice is that you shouldn't either.

I started watching because the premise was interesting. However the execution was fifth grade. What a terrible cast and production. This movie expects the viewers to be 5th. Graders with no mentality. How Hallmark can put out this garbage is beyond me. Yes the network that features Lacey Charbet and Autumn Reeser putting out such junk. Hopefully Bill Abbott will make a go of it with GAC. It does not take a genius to compare Abbott's Hallmark with the current garbage they are including. I have no idea how they chose Andrea Brooks and Patch May to star in this "movie?". Although I don't think any actor could have saved this one. My advise don't even try to watch it.

The premise is another quest story. The four main characters are seeking a lost love of Abe, Annika's grandpa. Annika is annoying. She is just an over-planner, but she is kind of neurotic. Despite being a planner, she is also irresponsible. "Oh, it will be OK." Ryan is almost as bad to the other extreme. He has no plan for anything. Ellie is fun but not enough to save the movie. There is some banter between Andrea Brooks and Patch May but I don't think it translates into chemistry. There is a bit too much of an edge in the banter and the personalities of Annika and Ryan are like oil and water. Annika is a poetry writer. She and Ryan tell all the prospects they meet that they are writing a book about love stories. Putting a love story into prose is one thing, but I don't understand how you do it in poetry, at least not with way too much work for a two week project. Ryan is set as a partner to Annika, but his contribution appears to consist solely of snapshots of the people they meet - no artistry at all. The whole development of the quest for Ruth is weird and doesn't really make sense.