Just so...so bad

The biggest problem with this movie is it’s a little better than you think it might be, which somehow makes it worse. As in, it takes itself a bit too seriously, which makes most of the movie feel kind of dull.

It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

June in January is another Hallmark chick flick which comes out with a cookie cutter plot and some bland but good looking leads and a small budget.Alex is a rising lawyer and from a wealthy family. June always planned a dream wedding with her late mother in June. However a job in another city means that they bring forward the wedding to January and have only a few days to plan the wedding. The cog in the wheel is Alex's mother (Marilu Henner) who has her own wedding agenda and shuts out June, she is aided by her new assistant who carries a torch for Alex.Alex takes little interest in the wedding planning, eventually realises that her mother is domineering and he is at risk of losing his bride. After a brief showdown, the mother eventually has a change of heart.The film is breezy and inoffensive. Its also very predictable and not very good. The director shows little flair, the script is by the numbers.

This is by far my favorite movie. Some call it a Chic Flick , I say "man wants it all." For Alex (Wes Brown) lawyer and rich, has decided to take his career in a different direction. That's great for him, but a time frame had set a few problems. The woman in his life June (Brooke D'Orsay) who he proposed to on New Year's Eve, was quite easy or so it seems. June was going to have her dream wedding in June. Well since Alex had a time frame on his job June's big wedding would be squashed and now it turned to a small wedding. So June sprung into action. Alex had a "to do list". But since his Mother (Marilu Henner) wanted it her way. Shut June out and cause any trouble she can. June had a hard time fitting in, so called the wedding off. She had her say and Alex had a few choice words for his Mom. June had some advice from her Mom, (who Passed away), said if you love Alex then get married. So the wedding was back on. The wedding was beautiful, and it seems Alex did get his way. It was good to see Wes Brown in a mature role. He did good. Brenda.

Wow......Hallmark is literally my FAVORITE channel on Comcast! So much so that my husband makes fun of me for watching all the "corny" movies. I never care what he thinks because I absolutely LOVE the Hallmark movies! I think they are sweet and poignant and I totally love them.........UNTIL!!!!!! UNTIL I came across this movie, June in January!! It's a lovely enough movie but there is a scene where the main character and her fiancé are running through the park and she is telling him how she thinks his mother doesn't like her and that she is sure she had someone better in mind for her son to marry than a nurse" and he said, "ya but you're a Nurse Practioner" and she says, "oh like your mom knows the difference?" WTF??? Like being a nurse isn't prestigious enough?!! Now we all have to be Nurse Practitioners to be recognized?? I am a Registered Nurse and I went to school for 4 years to be one. I make more money than a lot of CEO's of companies and that is coming from a "head hunter" who used to find jobs for CEO's! I find that whole scene BEYOND offensive to all my fellow Registered Nurses and I am thoroughly disgusted with Hallmark that you allowed such a scene to be put in one of your movies. How dare you! I have worked so long and hard in my career and frankly most nurses I know blow doctors away with their intellect and saviness!! Anyway....I had no idea where to direct my anger, so I chose to display it here on IMDb! Thanks to anyone who got this far in the review! I appreciate you reading my post!Ps....I don't also mean to put down doctors because there are so many wonderful docs who deserve our admiration. peace,Lisa :)

Leave it to Hallmark to totally sweeten down a great plot. A wealthy woman practically conspires with her secretary to prevent the former's son from marrying a girl she feels to be totally unsuitable for him.Marilu Henner steals the show as the conniving mother with a cold veneer. I thought they would have made her as cruel as a Bette Davis could be.Our bride-to-be, a lovely girl, had always planned with her mother what type of wedding she would have down to every last detail. With her mother dying, the girl still wants it the way she planned and her future mother-in-law use that to her advantage to plan everything instead, especially when the marriage has to be moved up as the groom has accepted a high job in an extremely prestigious law-firm.There's the girl's widowed dad with his new girlfriend, reading the letter that her mother sent. There is the assistant as vicious as ever.Henner does a total double-take when she sees she is overwhelmed. The secretary, who is fired, plans one last act of revenge. Remember, this is Hallmark, so all must end with a sugary taste.