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Calling for Love
(‎Karissa Lee Staples, Tajh Bellow, Marisa Brown, et al / DVD / NR / (2020) 2021 / Film Rise - MVD Visual)

Overview: Podcaster Sam Sanders is assigned to host a show that reunites lost loves. Even though Love is the last thing on her mind, Samantha falls for charming Jake who calls in with a problem. Will Samantha follow he heart this time?

DVD Verdict: Originally entitled Chasing the One, our central character Jake is made out to be this charmingly innocent, lovingly haphazard to his own detriment, but quickly into this hour and a half movie, we learn that he is actually nothing more than an idiot!

Convinced he has found his true love in a woman he has casually interacted with for all of a heartbeat of a minute, she is not that much more grounded in her life either!

For Sam is a butterfly that falls for a guy that would have been perfect in a Cheech and Chong movie, if all truth me told!

I mean, Jake is bad enough all on his lonesome, but Sam - from the moment she shows up on screen - seems very shallow and self-absorbed. She doesn’t listen to anyone, even when what they are saying made a lot of sense and she is immediately scornful of Jake and almost everything about him (and yet she barely knows anything about him!).

Anyway, like the pathway trod by most all these types of movies within this particular genre, Sam’s rough edges seem to soften out and Jake’s stupid nature seems to become stabilized, and, of course, they end up together.

All that said, and for all it is worth, Calling for Love does feature an interesting premise and some great writing (a very welcome surprise) and, at times, the dialogue is sharp and witty. This is a Widescreen Presentation (1.85:1) enhanced for 16x9 TVs.

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