Film Review – Love, Guaranteed

If we’ve learned anything over the last decade, it’s that Lifetime Movies and Hallmark Channel productions have the potential to be very popular. The business of being easy on the senses has increased in recent years, with the cable networks sticking to a formulaic understanding of new love, nostalgia, and holiday magic. Netflix offers their version of the subgenre with “Love, Guaranteed,” which isn’t set at Christmastime, but it retains a lightly comedic approach, sticky romantic entanglements, and easily solvable problems. There’s nothing here to challenge the audience, but that’s the point of the picture, with the screenplay by Elizabeth Hackett and Hilary Galanoy refusing to color outside the lines. It’s the kind of film made for nights filled with too much wine and regret, and while it does what it does, there’s a growing feeling during the viewing experience that it could try harder to be something special. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com