Movie · Netflix · 2017
Hollywood Dirt
A small town used as a set, and a romance that thinks the set is a life. Adults. Not for the table.
Summer wants out of the gossip. Cole wants out of a marriage that has already ended in public. The film puts them in the same frame and calls the collision love. A town with a real economy — the cola fortune, the houses, the officials — is treated as scenery for a production and then as scenery for a kiss. Southern manners are the spice, not the law.
You can see why it is on a front row. It is bright, and it promises that a famous man will choose the woman the town has been unkind to. That promise is the flattery. Watch it only if you are grown and in the mood to test it. If the town is still standing at the end as a place with neighbors, good. If the only thing that mattered was whether the star stayed, you already know the measure.
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Industry
4/10
A film crew is work. The town's work is the backdrop.
Household
4/10
A divorce behind him, a woman who wants a different life. No house is built.
Piety
2/10
No reverence. Charm is the whole weather.
Courage
4/10
She stands up to him. The nerve is spent on the spark.
Republic
4/10
A town that knows her name, used as locations and extras.
Temperance
4/10
Appetite dressed as enemies-to-lovers. The portion is a feature.
Truth
4/10
The gossip is real. The cure on offer is a famous man.
Stewardship
3/10
Nothing here is for a child, and little of it is for the people who will still be in Quincy after the trucks leave.
Live historicallyIf a visitor is making a story out of your street, decide what you will not sell them.