Too much CGI. Too much juvenile competing between the supposedly grown women running butterfly businesses. Emily's father and best guy friend are too invested in her finding a husband. Garrett's father wants him to find a wife. The ex-girlfriend is too intent on her vision of reuniting and living the life she wants. The leads are too busy letting past lives keep them from moving forward, or being just too cute for words. The information about butterflies was the best part of the movie.
Feeling Butterflies
2022
Comedy / Drama / Romance
Feeling Butterflies
2022
Comedy / Drama / Romance
Plot summary
In a small town in Washington state, Emily Mariposa and her business partner Adam raise butterflies to release at events such as children's birthday parties and weddings; attending the latter, if she was being honest with herself, is still a little difficult in the pain of a serious break-up. While Emily started and continues to do the business in her love of butterflies, nature, and their role in ecology, the same cannot be said for her cutthroat competitor Mandy Fisher, who solely does it for the bottom line in knowing little about butterflies beyond how to raise them for the business, in the process she often undercutting Emily's prices. One job that Emily does manage to keep is the birthday party for adolescent Amanda. With Amanda being a budding butterfly enthusiast, her widowed father, Garrett, asks Emily for a tour of her butterfly farm for them, this beginning a friendship between Emily and Garrett/Amanda, the father who Emily, again if she was being honest, the first man she has looked at "in that way" since the breakup. But the biggest job is up for grabs when socialite Rebecca O'Keefe opens up the bidding between Emily and Mandy to supply butterflies for her upcoming wedding, the price not the issue but the number of butterflies each can supply, the increasing numbers requested by Rebecca, who the word "impossible" is not in her vocabulary, virtually impossible, at least in Emily's mind. To be able even to come close to meeting the numbers to win the contract, which would put her business in the next echelon with the public exposure of the wedding, Emily has to expand physically with Garrett and Amanda's help. In the process, Emily can admit that she is falling for Garrett. The problem is that while Garrett does have feelings for her, there is another woman, Jill, an ex-girlfriend who has recently reentered his life, and she, in addition to Garrett's father, are pressuring him to move "home" to New York for him to assume leadership of the family business, the combination which on paper is the best for Amanda in Jill having managed to get her into the finest school in the country back in New York.
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Very sweet movie.
The chemistry between the leads (who are apparently dating in real life) is great. Kayla is great as the lead and holds her own with Kevin who has been the male lead in other movies. The little girl was adorable. It was also fun because I got a bit of an education on butterflies! It was shot beautifully and I recommend it.
A bit of a fresh take
The story had a ton of possibilities and turns out pretty well. The butterflies give the story a fresh approach and a little wonder too. A widower and daughter always appeal to me opposite the romantic leading lady.
The two actors from When Calls the Heart, Kayla Wallace and Kevin McGarry had chemistry and seeing their characters develop their relationship is nice. McGarry is already appearing on a regular basis in Hallmark movies. I have liked Wallace's Fiona, looking forward to seeing her in other things. I hope this movie is a sign that she will become a regular in movies for them.
The dialog made me cringe a few too many times and detracted from the story.