This is one of the most boring movies I've watched all year, and I watch one every day.
The acting, script, and directing were pretty bad. The lead, Sara, had the same wide eyed, deer in the headlights expression throughout the movie. She talked in a monotone with few vocal inflections and moved slowly, part of the direction, perhaps to convey how peaceful she felt?
She doesn't know the word to use when researching on the computer to how to pick a lot of grapes. They made a specific point of that. The word is Harvest! Never heard that word, I guess. You can not know a lot about farming, yet have general common sense. She obviously had none.
She doesn't know how to open garden clippers. That was pointed out.
She throws a bunch of grapes into an empty basket from 5 feet away, so obviously she's never bought grapes before, or does she do that with her store bought produce?
There is so much work to do around the farm, because the grapes are ready to harvest, yet 5 minutes into the grape picking, they're tired and hungry. Then after lunch, they all decide to go to town to help Sara pick a grape harvesting outfit! End of day number one. Whew, a lot of work!
She had requested flour from Gabe, then forgets about it a few hours later when he comes by with "flours" and makes a joke. She looks gormless at him, not getting the humor. "I forgot, " she says.
The whole cast, other than the little girl, is stiff and stilted and robotic, as other reviewers here have mentioned.
They threw in a developer who wanted to buy the property for a hotel.
They threw in a Harvest Party, what else? Just for the heck of it.
SO boring. There was no point to grapes in the story, and the story would have had some cohesiveness if they were harvesting apples, as there were also apples from the apple tree her mother had planted and Sara made her mom's apple torte, then was going to make apple cobbler. No grapes were required anywhere, and no one was making wine.
We don't know where this place was, but because people called her ma'am, which Sara said they didn't do in the city, and the little girl had a southern accent, it appeared to be somewhere in the south. They filmed it in Oklahoma.
I don't know what was the point of the daffodils shown and mentioned, as daffodils arrive in early spring and grapes and apples are harvested in the late summer, early fall.
As one reviewer said, it must be the directing. So bad, so boring, no life anywhere except for the precocious young Mabel.
I made it about halfway through, before fast forwarding through the rest to see bits of it.
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