Family Plan (2005)

Dreadfully Boring

It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

Gentlemen, we all know what we're in for when our women mention that a Tori Spelling movie is on. We're all in agreement that Tori looks like the female version of Robert Z'Dar (ladies, if you don't know, look him up). When the plastic surgeons were messing up her boobs they should have taken a couple pounds off her Leno-esque chin as well. She is also a bad actor. She wouldn't be in the entertainment business at all if her father didn't have so much pull in the industry.This forgettable TV movie is like all her others, overly sentimental and dripping with emotional treacle. It's a Chick Flick through and through, without a laugh or any action to be found. There is nothing here for men, not even a pretty lead to distract us from the fairy tale nonsense of a story.Guys, you've been warned. Ladies, now I know how YOU feel when WE watch The War of the Gargantuas.

An absolute pleasure where Tori Spelling places a career woman whose company is gobbled up by a larger one. Her new boss believes in family values, and the single Tori hires a guy to pose as her husband so that she can keep her job. Her friend's daughter, played by a very young and precocious Abigail Breslin, acts as her daughter.What makes this film so good are the complications that soon develop over this lie. We're dealing with houses, the boss wanting to meet the family, her friend, whose house is used, is separated and her suspicious husband thinks she is fooling around with the guy that Spelling has hired to portray her husband.Obviously, we all know where this is going but it's quite funny and by the end, this is one lie that has worked out quite well.The old subjects of career woman and no family, and a lie spinning out of a control are well worked on here.

This was a great movie from start to finish. Tori did a great job playing Charlie and Jordan Bridges was great as Frank/Buck. Great on-screen chemistry between the two of them. I read in a PEOPLE magazine article that they actually used to spend summers together when there families were vacationing and that Jordan used to dump sand down Tori's shorts while at the beach.If you like romantic movies and a few laughs along the way, this movie is sure to please. A definite 8 out of 10, not quite like the Jennifer Aniston/Kevin Bacon movie Picture Perfect like stated above, I'd only give that a 6.Hallmark movies are great and need to be released on DVD so that more people can see them. A lot of people don't get the Hallmark Channel.

It should have been a really cute movie. It had all of the elements - good actors, good acting, good directing, great soundtrack (not that is was trendy, but that it really set the mood well), good production value, good costuming, good make-up, good pacing...but it was missing a key element - a convincing script. This movie is virtually the same premise as the Jenifer Aniston/Kevin Bacon vehicle Picture Perfect - girl feels she has to pretend to be married in order to get a promotion/keep her job as that will make her look stable (unfortunately, a rather accurate business prejudice); she hires an actor to take the part, borrows a coworker's house and daughter (who though she works for the same newly acquired company apparently does not have the same concerns?!) and fakes it. Unlike in PP, though, there is no awareness of the long-term consequences. How do you work (especially as an executive) for a company and fake having a family, what about the office party and other events? What if she begins dating someone? Then, without an convincing writing or thematic transition, the actor falls for the girl played by Tori Spelling and makes things more difficult, and annoying, than ever. What this movie turns out to be is a really long sitcom. You know it's a bad idea to lie from the beginning and without any logic or planning it just comes across as stupid. Not even the good acting was able to save to day. It was nice to see Kate Vernon.