Let's be realistic.

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

Couldn't suspend disbelief for this one.I kept watching because it was fun to spot errors.With Brad as her manager-boyfriend, Angela's color headshot photo would have been printed below her blurb the back flap of the dust-cover, so Emily would have been able to quickly recognize the author of her favorite books and tell her dad 'Elizabeth' was really Angela Young. {Movie over}The crowd of girls waiting to meet Angela at the Book Expo, while holding copies of her book, never asked for an autograph or took cell phone photos when Angela arrived? Angela meets a young fan inside and after talking the kid about what she was wearing, doesn't offer to autograph the of the book the girl is holding? Fans wouldn't have recognized their favorite author from her previous book PR promotional tours?Why would the movie-based-on-the-book be shown in a theatre at a Book Expo the day before the movie premiered in LA? Why would her sister Cynthia park her car in tow-away zone at the TV station before taking a cab to the Expo? How would the security guard have known it was Cynthia's car? Angela drove from Boston to Vermont and never missed her MIA purse? She crashed at night but the sheriff found her wandering on the road in daylight after driving through the downed tree accident scene that could probably be identified by skid marks? She was found walking on a road on the outskirts of town but the town doc thinks she belongs in town? Angela is more concerned about what she should buy to replace her borrowed scrubs instead of figuring out who she is? She isn't concerned someone would be missing her? Why wasn't she wear a medical alert bracelet for her nut allergy?The sheriff and the good-hearted townsfolks never bothered to look for a wreck until kids found it in a ravine two weeks later? Car tag? Owner's card in the glove box? Cell phone? {Movie over}Continuity failures-When Angela leaves her home she is carrying a white designer handbag and a poster rolled inside a strappy carrier as she got in stretch limo yet when she got out of the limo at the Book Expo she held the rolled poster minus the case and, by the way, where is her expensive handbag? Brad says "go-for-Brad" when he answers the phone, except when the news is Angela has been found.

What I love about these types of movies is the vibe the theme gives us, in this case: fall, leaves falling, having a cup of coffee while reading a book (Even though Spring just started for me) and I loved that about the movie. I also enjoyed watching my fellow compatriot, the sweet Julie Gonzalo, but...It is the EXACT same plot as "A Christmas to remember" I liked the movie, I enjoyed Angela's journey and I really liked ALL the parallels given at the beginning of the movie and their counter parts at the end. However, there were so many things, details and important things regarding the plot, that bothered me. Like, the boyfriend waiting two weeks to file a Missing's Person Report? Come on. Chemistry between the characters? I saw a tiny spark throughout the movie but nothing worth smiling-at-the-TV/computer for. And I have something to say about this movie in particular: Julie is Argentinian okay? It would have been lovely to make her Latina and have representation. I liked the movie but I'll probably won't watch again.

Thanks to the excellent acting of all concerned, especially the two leads, this was a very enjoyable little movie. The gimmick in this one was amnesia. This is not one of the usuals. A stressed out and manipulated best selling young adult author makes her getaway right before she is about to be interviewed on TV. Yes she leaves everyone in the lurch at the last minute. She has an automobile accident and loses her memory. This is where a little suspension of disbelief kicks in because she needs a week or two without her memory for a story and a romance develop. She is a world famous author who was about to be on the red carpet for a movie premier of a movie based on one of her novels. And no one except her sister and her boyfriend/manager knows she is missing. Add to that the police do not search for a car which should have been found in hours as a tree fell across the road where her car drove into a gully. That is where her cell phone is and the clues to her identity.Oh well, these are the little things you just have to roll with when looking at a Hallmance. These things rest on the appeal of the leads and secondary characters and based on this, it was a win. The actress, Julia Gonzalo, reminded me of another actress, and it was driving me crazy until I figured it out: A little known in America English actress Charity Wakefield. Looked just like her. I liked the widowed doctor as portrayed by Benjamin Ayers as well. Very likable guy.Pleasant scenery, gentle romance, nothing much to mock. The amnesia trick added some suspense and interest as well. I loved the way the set decorators stuck fake orange leaves in random places as well to convey the Fall theme. Very amusing. Well worth watching.

I usually don't review movies, but I felt compelled to about this one. Now, I am a Hallmark addict--I will watch anything on Hallmark and pretty much love it. Needless to say after some lackluster Summer Nights flicks I was looking forward to my favorite Hallmark genre, Fall Harvest. Falling for Vermont is a direct rip off of one of the other Hallmark Channel's channel, Hallmark Movies and Mysteries. It was a Christmas movie from last year entitled A Christmas to Remember and Hallmark Channel didn't even try to disguise the fact that they were stealing the plot line of the Christmas movie. In Falling for Vermont the lead characters are a famous writer and a small town doctor. A Christmas to Remember's leads were a famous TV host and a small town veterinarian. AND for each movie, the doctor-vet was a widow with small children (I think in the Christmas movie there were three kids as opposed to two in Falling for Vermont). AND both lead females got into car accidents on lonely country roads which caused amnesia. With the exception of the actors and scenery, I felt like I was watching the exact same movie. I am giving it five stars because I did enjoy the lead actors, but I think they did lack chemistry. The kids were cute and not obnoxious as they can sometimes be. Also, I was quite mystified by the fact that this author was extraordinarily famous--her books had just become a movie and she was making TV appearances --but not one person in this Vermont town recognized her although they were all reading her books! I think Hallmark needs to start to elicit their movie plot lines from other sources (I'd be happy to help!!). I am looking forward to Countdown to Christmas (which starts a bit too early in my opinion--end of October--Thanksgiving is totally overlooked) but I already have concerns about one movie whose theme is ice sculpting because about two years ago Hallmark produced a Christmas movie entitled Ice Scuplture Christmas. We shall see.Yes, Hallmark, as much as I love you, I did not Fall (ing) for Vermont. Hopefully next week's movie about a pear farm is not a xeroxed version of a prior film