Two people who have been utterly broken with love that has been lost are brought together when an old phone number has been reassigned to a new phone, and quite frankly they must just need each other at this very moment in time.
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When Mira’s boyfriend John is killed suddenly in a car crash, it destroys her life. She has no idea how to cope and actually witnesses it happening from the coffee shop they had just been together in. So quite frankly a rather brutal opening scene and moments to the film. We move forward two years and she’s still struggling with grief. In an attempt to combat this she begins to message his old phone number, this was after a conversation with man who admitted that he spoke to his deceased wife most nights. Her sister Suzy attempts to help her move forward but acts like she’s about ten years old and quite frankly doesn’t even attempt to understand her grief and tells her she really needs the “d” which was traumatic in a very different way.
Rob Burns hates everything to do with love having had his heart broken and dumped two weeks before the wedding to the woman he thought he was going to spend the rest of his life with, which again is extremely depressing and difficult to come to terms with.
He just happens to get the messages sent to John’s old phone and while he doesn’t reply he relates to everything in them and goes about trying to find out who is behind them. Falling in love with this mystery person, as this is going on he is on an assignment of writing an article about Celine Dion. Throw in some of her music and a couple of appearances by the legend. I will give credit for the fact that music really can help you through different events in your life and help you heal with the lyrics that you relate to.
Now then, this film is a total mess and I actually have no idea how it even got a cinema release. In every single way it feels like a made for TV Hallmark movie and I guess that was utterly mind blowing really and not in a good way. How do you take Celine Dion being in a film and using her songs and it to turn out so badly?
The casting also felt a little bizarre as well with a lot of British talent then being American, which just felt out of place and made me wonder why London couldn’t have been the setting? Oh well never mind a film that just quite frankly was not for me at all and that’s perfectly fine. The characters were not really likeable at all either which just added to it even more with a lack of charisma or quite frankly anything about them. Russell Tovey and Lydia West both criminally underused!
I might also have got too deep in thinking about the film but what are the chances that the number that had been John’s was then assigned to someone else that just happened to also be in New York City? Ok. I’m done now and I fully accept I should never even have bothered with this film. Didn’t realise I was so cynical now, FYI I do love Celine Dion’s music!
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