Yes, it is true, I have been binge watching romantic comedies (but only when my spouse is on call, so I know that he won't be home until late, that chances are very good that I won't get to sleep early, and these are movies he has basically no interest in--a guilty pleasure, a vacation for the mind).
In this one (also on Netflix) Rob Lowe (for me mostly famously from West Wing) and Kristin Davis (Charlotte from Sex and the City) pair up to deliver a tolerably good romantic comedy set in a spectacular setting (it is both set in and filmed in was filmed at the Lilayi Elephant Nursery in Lusaka, Zambia, and also filmed at Camp Jabulani in Hoedspruit, South Africa). So if you never had an African safari, or better yet, you did and you loved every minute of it, this will tick all those boxes).
The movie opens with Kate being dumped by her long time husband literally as the door is closing on their only child leaving for college. Unfortuanately she did not see this coming, so she decides to take her second honeymoon safari on her own, and lo and behold, her bush pilot is also involved with an elephant rescue operation, and so en route to her luxury safari, they touch down to save a baby elephant after it's mother has been killed for her ivory by poachers. Kate not only loves animals (and who doesn't love elephants) she was trained as a vet prior to becoming a stay at home mom, and she stays to provide medical care to the herd and to fall for the very charming pilot.
To be clear, this isn’t a bad film. If you like elephants, for example, you’ll love this. If you want to watch Lowe emit a low-level hum of charisma, this is the film for you. If you like knowing exactly how a film will go, beat for beat, right from the very first scene, you won't be disappointed. This is a nice, pretty, easy, undemanding film; it’s cheesy, but it’s also really quite charming.
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