She came for the job, stayed for the widower, and accidentally became a winemaker.
Johnny is a high-powered executive who is definitely not looking to fall in love but a business conference takes her to wine country she meets a handsome widower Andrew who invites Johnny to meet his family after she loses her job. In helping his parents' winery she begins to fall in love with him and his family but when she gets offered another job she has to chose between her career or Andrew
Acting
Julie Benz sells 'panicked executive' like she's lived it.
Production
Actual wine country locations, not a soundstage vineyard.
Director
David S. Cass Sr.
Julie Benz
Johnny Prentiss
Scott Elrod
Andrew Browning
JoBeth Williams
Sophia Browning
Elliott Gould
Paul Browning
Gattlin Griffith
Luke Browning
David Andriole
Christopher Stanley
Anne-Marie Johnson
Debra Miller
Brittany Ishibashi
Renee
Bruce Nozick
Thomas Jenkins
Jo Champa
Heidi
Richard Fancy
Milton
Ron Harper
Reverend Whitting
Vincent De Paul
George (uncredited)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Julie Benz filmed this between Dexter seasons, making her 'soft romantic lead' era a wild tonal whiplash for fans.
This is peak 2009 'career woman learns to slow down' cinema, when recession-era audiences desperately wanted to believe quitting your job for a vineyard was aspirational not terrifying.
US
