Approved for 12+

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This film follows the lives of two recent small-town Iowa art graduates - John Weatherford and Patrick O'Reilly - during a summer internship in Kansas City, Missouri, and two late-20s urban professionals - Abbey Sanderson (a frustrated and lonely writer now studying to be an actuary) and her best friend Margo.
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Dove Review

This movie starts off a bit slow but it gets better and better as it goes. I thought in the beginning that the close to two hour run time would seem like three hours but by the time the film moved toward its conclusion I truly wanted to know what would happen to the characters and with their story lines.

Beyond question the two leads, Greg Brostrom as John Weatherford and Christina Blodgett as Abbey Sanderson, give strong performances and reel us in so we care about what happens to them. Abbey is working as an actuary but she doesn’t truly want to keep track of tables and statistics but she longs to be a writer. Her job offers security but her dream promises happiness. John makes unusual art but when he meets Abbey he so desires to win her love that he allows his roommate, Patrick (Ben Jeffrey), to talk him into learning about Abbey’s likes from her blog and then following through on dates by giving her the things she wants, like Tulips and quotes from English literature. But will Abbey find out about this?

The film features a lot of displayed artwork and intellectual ideas and discussions are featured. Young adults and educated people will particularly enjoy the film. It does have an innuendo or two and some brief artistic nudity in the form of a statue and paintings and we therefore recommend the movie for ages twelve plus. For those who enjoy the intellectual and artistic pursuits, or just a good romantic story, this one should satisfy. It gets better and better as it goes!

Dove Rating Details

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None

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None

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Sex

Kissing; a man stays over at his girlfriend's home on the couch but insists they did not sleep together; a "No wonder you're a virgin" comment.

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G/OMG-3; Good G-1; Geez-1; A friend jokes, "You suck at life and I want you to die".

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None

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Drugs

Several scenes with wine and drinking.

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Nudity

Cleavage; shirtless men; statue which shows man's genitals and woman's breasts; painting of woman seen with exposed breasts; lingerie seen in store window.

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Other

A character was raised by grandparents after the death of his parents; a character deceives a woman but asks for forgiveness; another characters writes artistic praise in paper about his own clients in order to sell their work; man is seen getting a tattoo; a man pays for one newspaper but takes several from the holder; belching.

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