June in January is another Hallmark chick flick which comes out with a cookie cutter plot and some bland but good looking leads and a small budget.Alex is a rising lawyer and from a wealthy family. June always planned a dream wedding with her late mother in June. However a job in another city means that they bring forward the wedding to January and have only a few days to plan the wedding. The cog in the wheel is Alex's mother (Marilu Henner) who has her own wedding agenda and shuts out June, she is aided by her new assistant who carries a torch for Alex.Alex takes little interest in the wedding planning, eventually realises that her mother is domineering and he is at risk of losing his bride. After a brief showdown, the mother eventually has a change of heart.The film is breezy and inoffensive. Its also very predictable and not very good. The director shows little flair, the script is by the numbers.
... View MoreThis is by far my favorite movie. Some call it a Chic Flick , I say "man wants it all." For Alex (Wes Brown) lawyer and rich, has decided to take his career in a different direction. That's great for him, but a time frame had set a few problems. The woman in his life June (Brooke D'Orsay) who he proposed to on New Year's Eve, was quite easy or so it seems. June was going to have her dream wedding in June. Well since Alex had a time frame on his job June's big wedding would be squashed and now it turned to a small wedding. So June sprung into action. Alex had a "to do list". But since his Mother (Marilu Henner) wanted it her way. Shut June out and cause any trouble she can. June had a hard time fitting in, so called the wedding off. She had her say and Alex had a few choice words for his Mom. June had some advice from her Mom, (who Passed away), said if you love Alex then get married. So the wedding was back on. The wedding was beautiful, and it seems Alex did get his way. It was good to see Wes Brown in a mature role. He did good. Brenda.
... View MoreBrooke D'Orsay is getting married to Wes Brown in only a few weeks and she has a wedding to plan. She turns into Bridezilla and freaks out when future mother-in-law Marilu Henner tries to help because not every detail is just as she imagined it would be.This is a movie quite evidently aimed at women. Mr. Brown doesn't care about the details of their wedding and neither do I. This makes Miss D'Orsay's mania obnoxious. Since I did not care about Miss D'Orsay, I do not care about the details of her wedding, Mr. Brown's is a handsome but rather bland character and even the old pros don't give me much of interest, even though they turn obnoxious in order to give some sense of dramatic conflict to the movie.By the time that happens and the inevitable crisis occurs, I had lost interest and expect that every man whose girlfriend makes him watch will do likewise. I also believe that a lot of women who believe that a wedding is a nice party and that it's the marriage that counts will feel the same.
... View MoreAnother in a long line of boring, predictable pap. Nothing new, nothing that cannot be figured out in the first 10 minutes.Perky bride has the requisite dead mother who encouraged her daughter to have a lifelong obsession with her wedding day. In the cast: supportive father (naturally), evil mother-in-law-to-be that sees the error of her ways and does at 180 and embraces the new daughter-in-law in the nick of time, vindictive wannabe girlfriend who is so obvious in her deceit that she might as well be wearing a neon sign, and two totally chemistry-free lovers. Obligatory crisis occurs in the last 10 minutes and is solved in mere seconds and this mess is blessedly over.And yet again they film in a location that expects a suspension of belief with the premise that the entire wedding will be ruined because it's January instead of June and "too cold for roses" and yet every tree is fully leafed out. Apparently Hallmark has no budget for anything but the same tired studio back lot.Don't waste your time. You've seen it all before about 50 times.
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