A Daughter Finds The Father She Never Knew..."Come Dance At My Wedding"

Come Dance At My Wedding (2009)

TV Movie

Starring John Schneider, Brooke Nevin, Christopher Jacot, Roma Downey

Directed by Mark Jean

The Story:

Cyd (Nevin) is a dance instructor in a small town.  She is getting married to Zach (Jacot) in 2 weeks.  She's ready to leave the small town, and do big things with her life, so she needs to sell the dance studio that her grandparents started and her late mother left to her.  When her lawyer (Downey) gives her the deed to the studio, Cyd learns that she has a father (Schneider) that she thought was dead, and she needs his signature to sell the studio.  Can she get his permission to sell, or will finding the father she never knew she had, change her entire perspective on what she really wants in life?

Thank you Hallmark Channel, for putting out TV movies that are worth the time to watch, and give a lot of great actors some screen time that they may not otherwise enjoy.

Take for example John Schneider.

As the ladies in the movie gush, he looks great.  And really, he does.  Around 50 when he filmed this, aside from a few wrinkles, he looks like he could still slide across the General Lee's hood and squeeze through the window with little problem.

That's a Dukes of Hazzard reference for any youngin's reading this review.

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Nevin is also a very competent actress with whom I was unfamiliar with.  She seems to be like a smarter version of Amanda Seyfried.

As for Roma Downey...I think she went to Meg Ryan's plastic surgeon, and that's too bad.  It's okay to age gracefully, it looks more natural.

The storyline overall is very sweet.  There were several forced bits of drama that had to be injected into the story just to keep it from being too good to be true.  That includes making Zack the bad guy, at least for about 5 minutes in the story.  Thankfully the story didn't involve some sneaky attempt on his part to simply be after the money of selling the studio, or behind the desire to sell off the downtown businesses.

No complaints on this end, an enjoyable movie to sit through.

Final Grade: B-

Rewatchability/Purchase Factor: No rush to own it, but if it was playing on tv, a great background film during game/craft/sewing night.