Accidentally in love - 2011

A terrible start, but then it becomes the romantic comedy I was expecting to see. At first the male lead appeared not very likable. Very handsome indeed, but nothing more. The acting was too much over the line, it was all rather unreal and a bit annoying. The car accident scene was the worst I’ve ever seen, you basically guess what’s happened more than understand it. Also, he doesn’t lose that much time and yet he drives off like crazy to make in time, so he’s stopped by the police and since he doesn’t have his papers anymore, having stupidly left them in Annie’s hands, he’s put in jail until he can prove who he is and that that was really his car. Maybe he should have simply started earlier, instead after his job as Mulligan was over for the day he walked out quietly as if he had all the time in the world. 
The mother at first was annoying, she kept trying to get Annie a date because apparently she hadn’t had one in three years, as if that meant that she couldn’t be happy without a man in her life. Annie wasn’t happy, but that was because she was worried for her daughter, I don’t like it when they make these scenes as if a woman’s life without a man is not worth living. The mother even blamed Annie’s husband for not having an insurance, leaving her with nothing when he died. So lame.
After 30-35 minutes, the romantic movie finally takes off, with him growing fond of the sweet little girl and changing his attitude. A bit too suddenly one might say, one day he’s a jerk, the next day he’s a family man. 
The story: 
Annie is a widow with a little daughter that has a condition, she’s slowly going blind. She works as a waitress, she has no money, she has a broken car and a mother that keeps trying to get her a date. Eddie is an actor but at the moment his only job is on a show for kids, he plays Mulligan, wearing a big rabbit costume. He finally has a shot at a big movie but misses his interview because he has a little car accident. He says she hit him, she says he cut her off; he wants to go but she wants him to pay for her car to be fixed (I understand that she has no money but actually she did hit him, it was not all his fault). He hands his license and registration to her and then drives off in a hurry, and is stopped by the police. Once in jail, an officer calls Annie at work and she accepts to bring the papers down as soon as she’s free. They say she could press charges because he fled the scene, but she doesn’t because he promised to get her car fixed. 
Up to this point it’s all very annoying. 
He calls her for the insurance money and she tells him to go there immediately only to get rid of a guy that her mother invited for her. From that things change because he meets her sweet little daughter who is a big fan of Mulligan, and he tells her that she can meet him. Annie takes her to the studio the next day and Taylor is really pleased to meet Mulligan. 
He gives her a ride home. That night he gets really bored after his housemate took him to a club, and leaves to go to see her at work, and asks her out, of course with little Taylor and a boy from the show. They all have fun and Annie tells him about Taylor’s condition and that her only hope of not losing her eyesight is an extremely expensive operation, something really impossible for her, like 400.000$.
He manages to get her on a list, a charity list for needy kids, but of course the life-threatening cases come first so she should have to wait three to five years. 
He goes to her birthday party with Mulligan’s old, raggedy costume, and picks a fight with the clown (actually the plastic surgeon guy that her mother is trying to fix for her), and when the three of them fall into the pool it comes out that he’s Mulligan. 
- how can a waitress afford a house with a pool? I know this is LA, but she’s just a waitress. It must be not only expensive to rent, but also expensive to maintain, also if she owns the house then she wasn’t really left with nothing, was she? I don’t know, it’s just that a house with a big backyard with a pool doesn’t seem really nothing to me. Also I think the mom lives elsewhere, so Annie could have actually sold the house to raise the money for Taylor’s operation...
Annie is very angry at him, because he almost ruined the party and because she found out that he lied, telling her the operation would be in a few weeks only. 
He gets another shot at the big movie and gets the part. He sells his big mercedes and pays for the operation himself. They get together again and when they get out of the hospital the little girl can see the car :-D we’re shown that two years later he’s made other movies and they are now a family with a little baby of their own. Taylor is wearing glasses, which means that the operation went well and she didn’t go blind. Happy ending for all :-)
Annie-Jennie Garth
Eddie-Ethan Erickson (very very good-looking but not exactly a very brilliant actor)
Eddie’s agent Dick-Fred Willard
Annie’s mother Carol-Marilu Henner
Eddie’s roommate Scott-Zack Ward