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Lucky in Love touches on a theme that is true for many of us - that the perfect life we've dreamed of may not be as perfect as we think. Mira Simon (Jessica Szohr) literally has her dream life dropped in her lap - dream career, dream apartment, dream guy. At first it's exciting but the more she lives her perfect life the less perfect it becomes for her. The experience of having it all enables her to understand that her real "perfect" life may be something other than what she envisioned, yet more perfect than what she could have ever imagined.

After one hour of watching Lucky in Love, I turned it off. This Hallmark movie had a cute story with personable actors, but there was continual repetitive "bing-bong" music in the background playing that was louder than the speaking. Instead of this being a movie, it became a concert.

Years ago the Classic Movies only had music playing when there was a climatic or action scene, but not while people were speaking. You could hear every word clearly then. Now you have to try and listen to both the speaking and a concert at the same time. My family and I have excellent hearing, but the music is just too loud and too annoying to keep the movie on. Why does Hallmark insist on ruining all their delightful movies? Their movies were not like this years ago.

I love Hallmark's predictable, happy endings. Please keep making them without the music while the actors are speaking. Thank you.

The story is about a woman Mira, (Jessica Szohr) that works for a Technology Company, and suddenly everything that she has dreamed of comes true. She gets a promotion with a big raise, she gets to live in a fabulous townhouse, she meets the man of her dreams, but she soon realizes that the grass isn't always greener on the other side. And her life starts to unravel as her job and new boyfriend, Liam, (Ryan Kenny) start to make overwhelming demands on her, and she really doesn't enjoy her "dream life". She is so busy with work that she doesn't have time anymore to enjoy hanging out with her girlfriends. Also a male coworker, Jonah, (Ben Hollingsworth) who is her biggest ally and confidant, is in love with her but she doesn't even realize it. And as an Executive she rubs her other coworkers the wrong way leaving them unmotived. The whole premise of the movie is how can she resolve all these problems and be truely happy again.

Of course it's another predictable Hallmark script so we know how it will come out, but it sure takes a LONG TIME getting there. In the meantime, you are left with feelings of stress and anxiety waiting for it all to come to a merciful end!

This movie was good Jessica really nails it as the lead and the other guy was good too but I was missing the chemistry. Other side from that this movie is worth watching

The previous 2014 Hallmark films varied in quality. While 'A Ring in Spring' was a real winner, there was also the disaster that was 'My Gal Sunday'. Was not sure how 'Lucky in Love' was going to turn out, despite the title sounding very charming the premise was less so and was one that could go either way. There were elements that had potential to be charming, but others that could be potentially cruel. Was certainly not expecting it to be original, Hallmark did similar stories since (films though seen prior to this) with variable success.

'Lucky in Love' left me mixed. There are good things about it that does make it watchable that makes it one of the middling 2014 Hallmark films, namely the two leads. It also however falls significantly short in too many major areas for me to recommend, such as the story execution, the music, the ending and how difficult it was for me to connect with the female lead character. It is far from being a terrible film, have already said that it is watchable, but it really isn't particularly good. Can totally see why reviews for 'Lucky in Love' here have been divided.

Starting with the good things, Jessica Szohr gives her all and does have heartfelt moments. Benjamin Hollingsworth is a charming male lead. The supporting cast are more than acceptable, even though the characters are very cliched and recycled ones at that. The film did have some charming and light hearted moments.

It also looks nice, particularly the scenery which is complemented well by the slick photography.

However, the story is very formulaic with no surprises, there is so much over familiarity to every typical Hallmark trope thrown in with not an awful lot done with them. Making the film feel very predictable and mundane, and the film tends to drag, especially when the story got thinner. Absolutely agree about the ending being the kind that can be seen from a long way off and it is executed in a far too pat and unrealistically rushed way that jars with what was seen before.

Also agree about the constant, incredibly repetitive and twee music, that was often inappropriately placed, being really distracting. It does drown out some of the dialogue, which was very stilted and corn and cheese filled anyway. While Szohr does well in her role, her character was not easy to root for. She sounded very relatable on paper, but she came over in the film as too self-absorbed and snobbish and excessively so (really did feel sorry for her friends). Really did not buy how long it took so long for her to find out the truth about a certain character when it was not that subtle to the viewer. While she and Hollingsworth are good individually, they mostly lack spark and are too low key together.

Overall, mixed feelings here. 5/10.