LOVE ON THE SLOPES

US, 2018, 84 minutes, Colour.
Katrina Bowden, Thomas Beaudoin, Elysia Rotoru, Anthony Konechny, Corey Woods, Chris Shields.
Directed by Paul Ziller.

This is one of the many Hallmark movies made for television – and is considered one of the better romantic stories.

In a sense, this is a kind of film where the audience gets exactly what it wants. The central character is a journalist, is ambitious to write stories, enters a competition and goes to a ski resort where she hopes to find the whereabouts of a reclusive photographer. She is blonde and attractive – and he is tall, dark and handsome!!

Brief running time so she finds him almost immediately, hiring him as her sports coach as she overcomes her inner fears doing all kinds of extreme sports, bonding with him, his revealing something of his inner life to her.

She has a boyfriend who finally turns up and reveals her initial intentions. Audiences will be relieved that by and large everybody in the story is nice, the photographer giving permission to publish a story, the editor promoting her, and a happy ever after between the two.

1. Hallmark television movie? The target audience? Female? Male? The audience for a romantic stories?

2. The initial New York setting, Alex and her work, the editor, her friends in discussions, plan for the competition, the story, the Rockies resort, to find Cole?

3. The road and the breakdown, the town, the hotels, the mountains, the tracks, the waterfalls, bridges, skiing and snow…? The musical score?

4. Cole, his background, photography, his friend and manager? The chance encounter with Alex? Meeting are again, buying the sports clothes, helping, his becoming her official coach?

5. The days passing, the two together, the range of activities, the walk on the mountains, sliding the slopes, skiing, the prospect of bungeejumping…?

6. The bonds between the two? Talk about Barton? His eventual arrival, talking about her article, Cole hurt? His presuming the worst?

7. Alex, the article, her friend at the office, the editor seeing it, wanting to publish it?

8. Alex sending the article, the message of Cole, not to print unless he approved? His sending the message to the editor?

9. Promotion, love, happy ever after…?