Although I’ve seen this movie discounted as being formulaic (and it is) it’s a good formula and it is well used here. Since the time of ‘Speed’, I’ve been a fan of Sandra Bullock as a romantic lead and in this movie, she does her usual good job. She manages to turn herself from a woman thoroughly disliked by the audience (after all who could like a person who is mean to Ryan Reynolds with that beautiful baby face of his) to one who wins our hearts and makes us hope she gets her guy.

There is one particularly strange scene in which Betty White tries out some sort of Alaskan ritual that I think they could have left out and the movie would have worked just as well. The cast also includes Craig Nelson from ‘Coach’ and Mary Steenburgen (I know her best as the mom on ‘Joan of Arcadia’ but I hear she’s had some other roles in her time).

All in all I definitely recommend this movie as a pick me up kind of flick (which is what it did for me the day I watched it).

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