People will have one or the other reaction to this. There is no middle ground. I can see why people call this a "Recruitment Movie" because they make the Military people in this film seem very Noble. In reality most people in the Military enlist to escape poor surroundings. Not truely understanding that the war they are about to fight will never end. This film centers on two grown adults struggling to move forward after each have survived a major loss. Gee what do you think is going to happen?The actors are WAY TOO OLD to play these parts. Then again that doesn't stop Hallmark from casting Candace Cameron in everything. This film had a good idea but it was poorly executed in every way possible/

I do not see why people would the lives film. To me it is the "Hallmark Version" of the movie "The Room". In this stupid film a woman works at the Towns Veterans Museum. Her hours are being cut down. This is after she just lost her husband in the whatever stupid war this country is in. The politics of the war is never mentioned. Also not mentioned the high cost of war on survivors of veterans who died. War is romanticized in this garbage film. I hated this film because it did everything to make veterans look like saints but never questions the victims of the US Military

Is it me, or are all the Hallmark movies getting some uplifting, better funding and improvements? The quality of them seem to be improving, which might have something to do with momentum and the crowd that watches these kind of sappy, predictable 'love dramas' is what I call them. But I keep watching them nonetheless because I'm a dreamer and I want to be hopeful that love can come to anyone and everyone at some point. But about the movie, I'm retired US Navy, so I kind of like the 'realistic' kind of military stories of today. It sucks to bring back deployment memories, but it's just a movie and it is enjoyable for a new Hallmark movie this year! I've watched it on 3-4 different occasions, but I seem to get distracted a lot with doing other things, so the last time I watched it was the time I saw it all the way through. I have to watch them at 11 pm to not be distracted that much and I live with my senior citizen mom. That's all. Enjoy your holidays and enjoy this movie!

This movie is predictable and never really rises above that. There was nothing in the story that made it special.The acting was mostly good. I was particularly impressed with Michael Shanks. He plays a disciplined and serious man who is a product of a lot of years in the army, yet he is still able to show some emotion including a positive attitude. Julie Benz has a difficult part. I don't think you can watch this movie and not ask why her character would follow the course that she does. And I'm not sure the answer came through. Perhaps someone in that situation would get it, but the actor's and writer's job is to show it to the audience. I'm not saying Benz did a bad job. I tend to think more that the role might have been too much for anyone, at least the way it was written. Even Sergeant Mullins' choices were hard to understand. Shanks made a stab at it, but again I don't think the limitations of the film made it possible to portray it well.There were definitely some heartwarming moments and I think on the whole I would recommend it with some reservations.