Favorite scene with
Ellen Branford (Alison Sweeney) - At the Bar - Being Recognized as the Swimmer, Making New Friends, Issuing a "Throws Like A Girl" Dart Challenge, Beating Roy at "Dead Presidents", Dancing with him, and then Running Away from him - or at least Going Up to her Room. BTW, I Loved this Irresistible movie!
The Irresistible Blueberry Farm
2016
Action / Drama / Fantasy / Romance
Plot summary
Ellen, a New York lawyer, and her pre-engagement boyfriend Hayden, a politician, are perfect together on paper, but she still has not given him an answer to his proposal of marriage. Ellen and her maternal grandmother Ruth have always had a special bond, going on unusual adventures together, something that Ellen's more conservative mother, Cynthia, has never understood. The last words Ruth said to Ellen before she passed away was for Ellen to hand deliver a letter for her, it's addressed to a Chet Cumberfield in Beacon, Maine, where, as Ellen just learns, Ruth was born and grew up. Chet is someone of whom Ellen and Cynthia had never heard. Ellen has no hesitation in obliging her grandmother's last request. It's a task which she believes will take two days at the most. On her return to New York she will give Hayden an answer. Ellen makes a literal and figurative big splash upon her arrival in Beacon, an event which will forever tie her to a local contractor named Roy in the minds of Beacon residents. Physical evidence of that tie to Roy is something that Ellen wants to erase or hide, especially from Hayden. Ellen's stay in Beacon is extended as she not only has trouble trying to locate the address in question, but she begins to discover more and more information about her grandmother's past about which she previously had no idea. During Ellen's stay in Beacon, she is guided by the spirit of Ruth, who had a reason beyond delivering the message to Chet for Ellen to go on this journey, all in the name of "returning home for the first time".
Uploaded by: FREEMAN
Director
Top cast
Alison Sweeney as Ellen Branford
Shannon Chan-Kent as Wendy
Marc Blucas as Roy Cumberfield
Rebecca Staab as Cynthia Branford
Tech specs
720p.WEB 1080p.WEB 808.89 MB
1280*714
English 2.0
NR
Movie Reviews
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Ellen Branford (Alison Sweeney)
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Cast
Any one of the three primary characters in the triangle, if they are on the bill I will give that movie a go. Marc Blucas has done several great roles for Hallmark and Allison Sweeney even more so, but Kavan Smith - anyone who can act so patient so constantly with Rosemary Coulter has got to be good.
Unfortunately I won't say this was the greatest role for any of those three, but Sweeney and Blucas did have chemistry and were good to watch. The story premise was somewhat fresh if not unique. Still there were no great highs or lows, nor were there any great surprises. The existing fiancé, in Smith, was hard to dislike but they did make it clear they weren't in sync.
Despite the intended excitement of the karaoke, I was a little disappointed.
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Feel-Good Tale From Hallmark
My local library offered up this DVD, originally a 2017 Hallmark TV movie. I'll readily admit it's not normal fare for me but I wanted to give it a try.
As one might expect it's sweet, poignant, predictable, and a little quirky. Alison Sweeney is very charismatic as Ellen, a NYC lawyer who travels to the small town of Beacon, Maine to deliver a mysterious letter from her recently deceased grandmother (Shirley Jones).
While trying to take photos from a rickety pier, Ellen falls into the water and is rescued by the dashing local Roy, who just happens to be the great nephew of the addressee of the letter. Marc Blucas ably portrays Roy and the chemistry between Ellen and Roy is believable. Oops! The complication is that Ellen has just been proposed to by Hayden (Kavan Smith),an aspiring politician.
With wonderful cinematography, I did get a good sense that I was in a small town in Maine. No regrets from me that I escaped for a while into this feel-good tale from Hallmark.