Director: Ernie Barbarash
Starring: Rob Lowe, Kristin Davis
Running Time: 86 minutes
Synopsis: Immediately after her son heads off to college, wealthy New Yorker Kate Conrad (Kristin Davis) is shocked when her businessman husband announces the end of their marriage and also departs. She sets off alone to a Zambia safari vacation, where she meets hunky and eligible small plane pilot Derek Hollistan (Rob Lowe), who also works at an elephant sanctuary. Kate has training as a veterinarian and decides to stay at the sanctuary to help care for the elephants. A thorny romance blossoms with Derek as Christmas approaches
What Works Well: Some of the African scenery is pleasant, and the elephants are adorable.
What Does Not Work As Well: A nauseating Hallmark-level movie set in Africa, wedging-in a Christmas theme because this is what Hallmark-type movies do. The human actors are embarrassed by the talented elephants, the writing is atrocious, all the dramatic moments are contrived, key secondary characters are barely defined beyond "bad husband" and "lusty vamp" and then just disappear, and the on-the-rails plot never deviates from utter predictability.
Key Quote:
Derek (referring to a buffalo): Some people say it's the most dangerous animal out here. But it's not.
Kate: What IS?
Derek: We are.
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