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Love Finds You in Valentine

Love Finds You in Valentine

Drama · TV Movie · Romance · 2016

Kennedy Blaine, a Californian girl, inherits a ranch in the small town of Valentine in Nebraska. Before she sells the property, she decides to spend the summer in her house and learn more about her family.

Movie details

Love Finds You in Valentine

“You don't know what's missing until you find it.”

2016 Drama · TV Movie · Romance 1h 32m

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TMDB

6.4 / 10

Community rating

Kennedy Blaine, a Californian girl, inherits a ranch in the small town of Valentine in Nebraska. Before she sells the property, she decides to spend the summer in her house and learn more about her family.

CriticWise case file

What this film says about your taste.

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The people responsible.

Directed by

Terry Cunningham

Written by

Bryar Freed

Michaela McManus

Michaela McManus

Kennedy Blaine

Diogo Morgado

Diogo Morgado

Derek Sterling

Ed Asner

Ed Asner

Gabriel Morgan

Lindsay Wagner

Lindsay Wagner

June Sterling

Hunter Cross

Hunter Cross

Steve

James Kisicki

James Kisicki

Gregory Talbot

Kellen Boyle

Kellen Boyle

Cuddy

Court is in session

Put Love Finds You in Valentine on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Sentimental Softie

“Sincerity is not manipulation.”

The film risks embarrassment to make emotion communal, and that openness is harder than fashionable detachment.

The prosecution The Cool Ironist

“The strings are showing.”

Every cue tells you exactly what to feel and when, leaving sentiment to do the work character should have done.