Romance at the Vineyard

2023

Action / Romance

4
IMDb Rating 6.1/10 10 352 352

Plot summary

Follows Allee, as she meets Ethan, a charismatic Wine Inc. representative who wants to convince Allee's grandparents to sell their family vineyard, and things get complicated as Allee and Ethan get closer but want different outcomes.

Director

Colin Budds Photo
Colin Budds

Top cast

Tim Ross Photo
Tim Ross as Ethan Blake
Susie Abromeit Photo
Susie Abromeit as Allee Balzerini
Matt Domingo Photo
Matt Domingo as Ben Danson
Erika Owen Photo
Erika Owen as Vineyard Guest
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29.97 fps
1 hr 25 min
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English 2.0
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1 hr 25 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by TxMike

Family-owned winery struggles for survival.

The story is set in Santa Barbara, California, but it was shot in Queensland, Australia. Because of that almost all the roles are played by Australian actors that few of us outside Australia have ever heard of. Just a point of interest, all are fine in the roles for this type of movie which follows the Hallmark formula very closely. Including the first kiss during the last minute of the movie.The American actress is Susie Abromeit as Allee. Her parents are deceased, we never learn why, and she and her younger brother stay with their grandparents. Who, incidentally, own a small but very high quality winery. Their award-winner is their Pinot Noir. Allee feels she will take over some day but she has a big issue looming. The current vintage of Pinot is over-oaked and it is the wine they were going to use for a nationwide distribution deal.Meanwhile, Australian actor Tim Ross as Ethan Blake works for a company that takes over small wineries. In fact they own all the other wineries in that region and Ethan is given the assignment to travel to this one and make a deal.There really isn't much novel about this story and the attempt at depicting authentic winery operations fails badly. It comes across as a low-budget movie just for light entertainment. And it accomplishes that, just light entertainment for those of us looking for a clean 90-minute movie.Its rating seems a bit high, probably because so many Australian voters gave it a "10". I'd say more like 4 or 5 is appropriate.My wife and I watched it at home, streaming on Prime.
Reviewed by rachel_mcbryde 1 / 10

I think this might be a comedy

Found this movie on a midday slot midweek when I was home from work sick. This movie is bad. Every performance is awful, every character is awful, even the cinematography is bad. The grandparents accents change every line and there's zero chemistry between any of the actors, there's even a sweet scene staring out into the vineyard at night where you can almost see the sticky tape holding the picture of the moon in the sky with obviously fake plants in the foreground.All of that being said, its also hilarious, just unfortunately in a laughing at rather than with kind of way. I'm from a wine background and even half an hour talking to the people that own the vineyard where its shot would have saved most of the embarrassment. Stomping table grapes (not wine grapes) is probably why their business is doing so badly, plus testing for "oak sensitivity" which is categorically not a thing, but that's the minor stuff. There's just endless out of place jargon in every scene that makes your brain bend. In the end (spoiler alert) the business is saved, mostly through wearing chinos and blue sweaters with your leg up on something while staring into the distance.On a side note: The weird use of jargon, reused stereotypes and storylines and plastic dialogue makes me think that this was actually written by ChatGPT. There's no way a human wrote something this bad.
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