2009 · drama · romance · supernatural
Love Happens
Directed by Brandon Camp1h 49m2009
Dr. Burke Ryan is a successful self-help author and motivational speaker with a secret. While he helps thousands of people cope with tragedy and personal loss, he secretly is unable to overcome the death of his late wife. It's not until Burke meets a fiercely independent florist named Eloise that he is forced to face his past and overcome his demons.
Our read: Love Happens (2009) reads as a neutral, kinetic, grounded drama · romance · supernatural entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, kinetic, gentle drama / romance, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- brisk
- gentle
- intimate
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