Heart of the Matter

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Had a hard time getting through this because the main character spends the ENTIRE movie feeling sorry FOR HERSELF! Hard to believe someone who has gotten to this level of medicine is this delicate to difficult times. She acts like she stabbed the patient to death. ENOUGH!!!!

Ridiculously frustrating. An exercise in self-indulgence. Ugh...what a ridiculous woman. Why does Hallmark consistently make their female characters so pathologically enfuriating. The omission committed by this doctor in question pales in comparison to the daisy chain of bad, hurtful decisions she proceeds to make, even harming a young boy, in her self-indulgence. Ugh. Pitty-pot time, anybody?

I remember when I would look forward to the new Hallmark Hall of Fame movies. The only reason I watch them now is bc my elderly mother likes them. Same actors, same stories, recycled plots...

The premise was idiotic. In what world would something like this happen??! I don't know if a person who is visibly mentally challenged can get a driver's licence and what the criteria are. I don't mean to be insensitive but how can somebody have a license, who can't discern when it's OK to get behind the wheel and when it's not?! Such a person would be dangerous. I can't imagine a cardiologist to be so naive and immature. It is a tough job and you can't afford to be so easily perturbed and do stupid things as a result. She is bound to lose patients throughout her career. Is she going to stop working and go into solitary every time? Is she going to track down the family to apologise? The sick guy does have the intelligence to ask if he can walk but doesn't ask if he can drive, doesn't even mention it?! The mother talks to her son when he gets sick, realises that this might be serious but doesn't think of telling him to get an ambulance and make sure he doesn't drive. She does know that he has a license. She knows more about the way he thinks, right? But no, why do that when she can blame the doctor for assuming that the patient isn't driving, for not knowing the criteria for a driver's licence and for not asking the guy if he has a license. Really?! All these are examples of how far fetched this is. Additionally, the lead actresses are whiny and unpleasant. The characters they played were unrealistic. The story and dialogue made me cringe and wish it was over, because you can see where it is going. I skipped through it to see if there were any surprising turns and it was still too long. Don't waste your time.

Like others, I'd watch any story with Aimee Teagarden ever since I first saw her in "Once Upon A Christmas Miracle", and she'd done some work that would never air on Hallmark, yet this movie was quite different from what I expected from the previews. This was almost pure drama, and the romance was incidental to the story. The overriding message is how one can be one's own worst critic, and potentially forfeiting a promising future over tragic lapses in judgements, and yet one can rise above that by being open and honest with those who care, and even with those who have every right to hate them, if only they are brave enough to rise to the challenge. At the time of this writing, Hallmark is barely airing this story at all, and that seems like such a bad idea.

I created an account specifically to give this movie a review. No way the 9 star reviews are legit. Most infuriating, narcissistic, I know everything, ridiculously written character ever created by Hallmark. I feel terrible for Aimee Teagarden getting stuck with having to try and make this character redeemable. Impossible task. And this from someone who has watched A LOT of Hallmark movies. She never learned anything during this movie which makes sense for her character because she believes she doesn't need to listen to anyone else. As reflected by the fact she makes one bad decision after another despite the fact that everyone around her is giving her excellent advice.

Although the story line is somewhat plausible story; however, how a person with a an intelectual disability, who is slow to react, received a driver's licence is way beyond comprehention. A doctor would have pulled his licence, but that alone may not have stopped him from driving. As such, his mother firstly should have told him not to drive. She was just as responsible. The hospital is not standing behind her at all, even her boss is not supporting her the way he should. Putting that story libe aside, the moral story has made Hallmark movie quality step up a couple of notches. Hopefully the rest of the Summer movies are much better. Thus movie us worth watching to the end just to see how the doctor can grow beyond her troubles.

This is the film about a cardiologist who makes an error in not telling her developmentally disabled patient not to drive and he gets into a car accident which results in his death. Our cardiologist blames herself and grieves, gets blamed by her patients mother, deals with the legal ramifications as well as the medical review board. I wish I could rave about this film...the acting was good and the story was good, but when I come home from the hospital the last thing I want to see is a sad real life story. They may have wrapped it up nicely in a hallmark way at the end (although a little rushed) but the story was a little sad for escapist television.

I too love Aimee Teagarden. Her facial expressions and her acting in general are very good. The surprise for me was that the whole cast were excellent. The story line breaks away from the traditional romance comedy sometimes silly Hallmark movies into a well written drama with true to life characters with very real and relatable emotions. There is romance, sadness, struggles and of course a happy ending. It will go down as one of my favorites from Hallmark. The other one that surprised me this year was Presence of Love with Eloise Mumford. Give them both a try.