Storyline

Diane, a single overworked mom of two from LA, inherits a house in rural South Carolina where she must live for a year. She and her daughters will be forced to slow down and learn how to enjoy country life as they start to mend their relationships. Just when life becomes more simple, Diane runs into Luke, her first love, and things get complicated.—Elizabeth Snoderly, Starla Christian, Charlie Vaughn, Brad Tarnowsky, Lexi Giovagnoli

Plot Keywords

single mother, daughter, love interest, former lover, emotional, endearing, heartwarming, moving, touching, south carolina, countryside, small town, inheritance, family, relationships, bonding, reflection, adventure, discovery, love, 2010s

Short Review

The main character is unlikable and undeserving of her great aunt's love and bequeathment. First, it can be inferred that the main character was the great aunt's closest living relative given that she was gifted with the aunts earthly possessions. Despite the foregoing, the main character hadn't seen the great aunt in twenty years. Over that time, the great aunt struggled to maintain her home and lived without meaningful familial contact. Clearly, the end of the aunts life was harrowing. Still, the niece met the news of the woman's death with unbridled glee, hoping that she could capitalize on the event. The main character only found remorse when she learned that the house came with a dog, presumably the aunts only companion in her final days. The niece and her bratty teenager seemingly did not appreciate her great aunt's home which clearly beautiful. It just needed a new window and a power wash. Also, I was troubled of the 19 year old daughter's lack of emotional development. She's never worked in her life and expected her financially unstable mother to coddle her. She was not enrolled school and seemed content to just float through life without ambition. While I was glad to see her find employment in the Swamp Fox City, viewers can't help but feel that the mother performed a disservice by not urging her out of the nest sooner. While this family unit was rife with turbulence, the central conflict to the film was the romance between the main character and a man, which whom she had a teenage fling twenty years earlier. Troublingly, despite both being graced with twenty year of adult life experience, neither were graced with any meaningful personal development - the woman poured herself into her career while neglecting her children and the man appears to have closed himself off to all avenues of love, apparently clinging to his memory of young adult limerence. Initially, their romance goes well. They stare luridly into each other's eyes, giggle during normal conversation, and the man gives the main characters' adult child her first job. The toxicity of their relationship does not become apparent until she is considers returning to LA. His reaction was aggressive and controlling. He held her by the wrists and accused her of giving up on their relationship like she had twenty years earlier. The fact that the end of a teenage fling remains and open emotional wound in this middle aged man does not bode well for their future together. The audience is initially relieved when she returns to LA. Although she returned to her old job, which induced a panic attack in the films opening moments, she was shown to carve out space for her personal life. Kudos to her. Unfortunately, the middle aged southern man showed up in her home unannounced. He was not apologetic for his unnerving behavior, but he presented himself as open to reconciliation. Viewers are disappointed when she accepts his embrace and once again uproots her family in favor of a place called the Swamp Fox City. Overall, the film effectively tells the story of arrested development and its resulting abuse, as demonstrated by the films two featured relationships - that between the mother and daughter and the central romance. However, the characters are all unlikable and viewers will struggle to find one to root for. While there were some fun moments in the periphery of the film, it's emotional engine not compelling. It is a fun film to watch in a group, would not recommend watching alone

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