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This movie provoked tears, laughter, relief and gratitude, because the real story is how do you create love and a family, especially after doing the
wrong things which destroy love and connection? What I especially enjoyed was the presence of mistakes, yes, but the lack of dysfunction (with
one exception) and sickening drama and blame being throne around.
The basic story is two young women happen to get on the same flight seated next to each other, discovering they are going to the same town, each on a trip to see a family or part of a family which they have not seen in a very long time or not at all, each believing they were not even loved. Sighing, listening to each other's story, wishing they could trade places - it's only a week's vacation, after all - they decide to trade places.
Each of them finds something important in their new life, each deciding for themselves which values are really important to them, for one is part of a very rich family, and the other a very poor one.
There's a local beauty/talent pageant to herald Christmas, and, unknownst at first to each other, they both are entered. This was a special treat because the girls (Kira and Jessie) both have sweet, clear voices, very very pleasant to hear. One wins the pageant, and the seams in their innocent plan start pulling apart and little secrets and confusions start to wiggle out.
Truthfully, I had a little bit of trouble making sure I could tell who from whom, because in the end, it looked like they were interrelated! What impressed me the most was that in the poor family, they always reinforced their love and belief in each other's worth, and that a creative,good solution to every problem was usually available. In the rich family, the values exhibited were rigid control, judgement, ranking themselves above
others, and generally measuring human worth with wealth. That was uncomfortable. As I said, it seemed as if the two families were interrelated,
and some of the rigid values were loosened with more caring and sharing in a way to make the families stronger, not weaker.
I ended up liking and enjoying almost EVERYONE, including the music they played and sang, except the rich wife whose specialty was judgementalism, exclusivity, and snobbishness, played by Bo Derek, who did a good job looking down her nose without being carping or spiteful
and hateful about it.
Otherwise, there was just a lot of caring, and good country music going around. I listened to that up to the last minute, unusual for me.
If you like to witness lovingness, and how that helps resolve problems, I DO recommend this little gem of a film!
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