Straight from the Heart 2003

     This film is based on a novel by Pamela Wallace published in 1996.  Jordan Donavan is a photographer and she lives in New York.  She is very disappointed with her boyfriend Edward Morgan.  She expected to get a marriage proposal on her birthday after five years of being together.  She gets a key to his apartment instead?  Edward isn’t ready to commit to marriage.  Jordan will be without a place to live if she moves in with him and they don’t like living together?  Her friend answers a matchmaking advertisement in a magazine for Jordan sent in by Tyler Ross, a horse rancher in Wyoming.  Jordan decides to fly to meet Tyler, even if she isn’t a match for him, it could give Edward a push toward marriage?  Jordan and Tyler don’t know that Tyler’s sister posted the ad for him?  Tyler lost his wife and baby daughter and he hasn’t gotten over his grief.  He’s very blunt and Jordan doesn’t think they have a chance for a relationship.  She does get to experience ranch life and she takes a lot of good pictures of the beautiful country.

     I liked this movie.  I thought the characters, the setting and the ranching life were interesting.  Warning, this is a Hallmark Movie so expect an attack on your tear ducts and emotions!!  3 ½* (I liked this movie)

100 min, TV Movie directed by David S. Cass Sr. with Teri Polo, Andrew McCarthy, Patricia Kalember, Greg Evigan, Christine Rucci, David Jean Thomas, J. Kenneth Campbell, David Atkinson, Richard Gross, Erika Young.

Note:  Imdb 7.0 out of 10, 67% audience on Rotten Tomatoes, Amazon 4.5*

out of 5* with 244 reviews.

Special Note:  This movie was filmed in El Dorado County, South Lake Tahoe, Placerville and Sacramento, California.