Review: Familiar plot presented in heartwarming way
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 15, 2014
"Love Story." "Limelight," "A Star is Born," "Camille (La Traviata)" and who knows who knows the many forms this theme has been reworked in, but somehow it always works. Two people, meet. One, usually the man, is rich or rich and famous or once was rich and famous and the other, usually the woman is a talented beginner. Against all odds the two fall in love and manage to overcome all adversaries except death itself.Here Sephora, just out of college, begins work as a production assistant for a television studio working on a weekly serial. Garrett is the star and a cranky former Broadway actor who is a womanizer and drunk more often than not. Sephora is charged with keeping Garrett in line and soon realizes that Garrett may not be drunk after all. On learning what the trouble actually is, Sephora agrees to help Garrett keep his secret. Love ensues.The tale includes any number of delightful snippets from the balloon scene cited in the official review to phone calls and text messages, etc.Knowing how the story will end is not a detraction.