Friends, sometimes a duck like me gets his feathers in a pickle because a protagonist is just too ducking resistant to change. Oh, don’t get me quacking about Autumn Reeser’s character Elizabeth in Always Amore who will not allow her late husband’s sadly failing restaurant to undergo even the tiniest of changes. But you know what? Sometimes, that’s how life feels. I once spent a whole year refusing to eat anything other than pondweed sandwiches. Sadly, according to my peacock partner Riley, this was similarly perplexing.
Now, don’t get me wrong. I’m as patient as the next waterfowl. But Elizabeth’s character did irritate my flippers—even more than that goldfish-flavored feather-scrub I bought from Target. If ducks were this stubborn, we’d never get anywhere. We’d be constantly bobbing on the same spot, quacking about how we can’t leave now because our butts have made it too ducking warm.
That said, Tyler Hynes, who plays male protagonist Ben, impressed me royally with his deep, sensitive, nuanced performance. That human can really hold empathy on his face—compelling it was, in all my duck quarters.
And extra points to Always Amore for having its romantic protagonists actually ducking process what briefly goes wrong between them. Emotional intelligence! Duck yes! It made for a very strong and satisfying ending with absolutely zero quackduckery. It also made the movie more memorable—so much so that I actually got all fond of it and couldn’t manage to award it with less than four stars.
Happy watching, friends!
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