This movie is not poorly written and the cast consists of some of my Hallmark favorites, but this should be a horror movie...not a love story.
In the backstory of this movie we learn the couple lived together, had been together for years, and a proposal was on the table. Instead, she becomes more successful than him so he dumps her...via the telephone....while she was in the middle of a business meeting.
The movie continues with her showing up for a business trip that will lead to her dream job and instead gets roped into playing girlfriend to the man who dumped her and never told his family. He lies to his family, lies to her to keep her dependent on him so she will play along, and spends a good chunk of the movie blaming her "We stopped talking all night because you got promoted" or criticizing her "Sure, make sure no one sleeps tonight." Meanwhile she continues to tell him how great he is and he gets to save her career, because one event that is out of her control is portrayed as an event that will get her fired from the highly successful career she built.
So the girl spends a week in what we assume is agony, playing girlfriend to the man who broke her heart, listening to his family tell her how much they love her, all so he won't be embarrassed. It ends with her being attacked for getting her promotion and accused of sabotaging him. She stands up for herself, as she should, and I wish that is where it ended.
However, in true Hallmark fashion, the girl gives up her career now that she realizes what she really wants in life is this man. After being comforted by his family that none of this was his fault (she was the one that had to tell them the truth), he makes the grand gesture and jokey apology and they start planning the wedding.
The end.
In the backstory of this movie we learn the couple lived together, had been together for years, and a proposal was on the table. Instead, she becomes more successful than him so he dumps her...via the telephone....while she was in the middle of a business meeting.
The movie continues with her showing up for a business trip that will lead to her dream job and instead gets roped into playing girlfriend to the man who dumped her and never told his family. He lies to his family, lies to her to keep her dependent on him so she will play along, and spends a good chunk of the movie blaming her "We stopped talking all night because you got promoted" or criticizing her "Sure, make sure no one sleeps tonight." Meanwhile she continues to tell him how great he is and he gets to save her career, because one event that is out of her control is portrayed as an event that will get her fired from the highly successful career she built.
So the girl spends a week in what we assume is agony, playing girlfriend to the man who broke her heart, listening to his family tell her how much they love her, all so he won't be embarrassed. It ends with her being attacked for getting her promotion and accused of sabotaging him. She stands up for herself, as she should, and I wish that is where it ended.
However, in true Hallmark fashion, the girl gives up her career now that she realizes what she really wants in life is this man. After being comforted by his family that none of this was his fault (she was the one that had to tell them the truth), he makes the grand gesture and jokey apology and they start planning the wedding.
The end.