The family drama ‘Sweet Carolina’ (premiering May 15 on The Hallmark Channel) is a departure from the rom-com formula most Hallmarkies come to expect – but this is a love story all the same, albeit an endearing and bittersweet one.In short: New York City marketing executive Josie (Lacey Chabert) returns to her small home town when she becomes the unexpected guardian of her niece and nephew. While there, she reconnects with Cooper (Tyler Hynes), her high school boyfriend.The fact that this movie begins like so many Hallmark movies is devastatingly and completely disarming.Sweet Carolina 2021 Full Movie Download
Josie is a workaholic hoping to land a big account, dating a guy (who’s clearly not a great fit for her), she has a charming closeness with her sister and she’s looking forward to a trip back home to North Carolina. This is literally how a thousand other Hallmark movies begin. Josie’s phone chat with her family is so innocuous and utterly familiar, laying out Josie’s busy offiChabert is so earnest and conflicted as the aunt and up-and-coming marketing expert whose life is totally thrown for a loop. The unprepared “big city girl” is suddenly thrown into the overwhelming world of parenthood. She’s not perfect and Josie’s harshest critic is Josie herself – but Chabert’s performance makes it effortlessly easy to cheer for Josie and believe in Josie, even when she doesn’t. So much of the story is Josie reconciling her family’s impression of her with Josie’s own notion of her future and herself. And because it cannot never be repeated often enough: ‘identity’ is one of the strongest and most meaningful pillars of storytelling – and ‘Sweet Carolina’ finds a woman trying to determine whether she can be a parent to her niece and nephew, or if she’s just cut out to be a supportive auntce life and her playful relationship with her sister. Then, in the movie’s opening minutes, a tragedy upends everything.