Cream of the Crop (2022)

Cream of the Crop (2022). Cream of the Crop: Directed by Douglas B. Maddox. With Ben Davies, Brittany Goodwin, Randall Oliver, Jackson Anderson. Jodi Stafford, a high school Ag Science teacher, meets Mike Jared, a commercial real estate marketing specialist during her struggle to save her family's ailing dairy farm.

“My wife and I were looking for a movie to while away the Saturday evening after dinner and came upon this on FreeVee, on Prime streaming. It seemed like a good pick but we didnu0026#39;t get very far into it before we realized it was just a low-budget, family project with marginal production values, an unimaginitive script, amateurish acting, and haphazard directing. But I always say, you canu0026#39;t really appreciate the good movies unless you occasionally see a real clunker like this one.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eWe did watch the whole movie but found ourself laughing during non-humorous parts just because the story was handled so clumsily. Shot in Maryland, the premise is an ambitious real estate manu0026#39;s company has its eye on some prime farmland for its next housing and retail development. It turns out he falls for the daughter of the local farm owner that becomes the target of the buy out. Conflicts arise, they have to be sorted out. His company loyalty is tested.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eIt mostly follows the Hallmark formula for story arc but overall is not handled nearly as well as the typical Hallmark movie. My wife wishes she had not taken the time to see it, I sort of enjoyed the absurdity of it all. It isnu0026#39;t a u0026quot;1u0026quot;, there are some worthwhile aspects to it, but maybe a u0026quot;3u0026quot; or u0026quot;4u0026quot; rating, clearly inferior to most other similar movies. (Note: on a 1 to 10 point rating system the middle rating would be 5.5.)”