Fair acting, Decent chemistry with Getenesh Berhe and Henderson Wade despite diluting that part of the story with too much other junk.

The setup for the fake relationship was a bit different, but after that the story was full of clichés. The only tension was in the story about Matt's father and that was totally repetition of many very similar story lines right down to the explanation for dad's long absence and silence. Hence me calling it other junk.

Some of the transitions seemed clumsy

A couple of reviewers commented that this fills a hole as far as lack of diversity actors in romance movies. I find that interesting because Lifetime and Hallmark have had a decent amount of diversity actors for several years, but that has really exploded in the last year or so. Admittedly, much of that expansion has been since Spring of 2021, but it's been building for far longer than that.

People are less forgiving when the feel good romances feature black people, but sometimes we want to see a simple, cheesy, slice of life movie with Black people. Not a complicated movie, totally predictable, but that's what cheesy romantic comedies are about. I give it a 9 not because its a great movie, but great for the "Cheesy Romantic Movie Featuring Black People" Sub -Genre....

This is not a well done film...but I guess it was a tv-movie, so it's about average for that genre. It has that Hallmark feel to it, although I don't believe that it was on Hallmark.

That being said, I rather enjoyed this film. The script is a little weak here and there, although the basic story is pretty decent.

What saves this film are the performances of the two leads. I've never heard of Henderson Wade before, but he's a very appealing young actor. Similarly, I've never seen Getenesh Berhe before, but she did nicely, as well.

The problem here is that you have a well-meaning script that's just a little amateurish.

But again, I enjoyed it. Hope to see more of Henderson Wade.