Watched: 04/19/2025
Format: Amazon
Viewing: First (and Last)
Director: Corbin Bernsen
Job: Ad company exec
new skill: being brainwashed
Man: Jonathan Patrick Moore
Job of Man: I don't know if I ever figured that out
Goes to/ Returns to: Eventually goes to the Yucatan
Event: several
Food: Sushi
This is a movie about a mentally ill person who falls prey to a cult through a scheme posing as a dating site for Christians.
Designed to be mistaken for a Hallmark movie, this infomercial for ChristianMingle.com, a very real dating site, our film, Christian Mingle The Movie (2014), follows Lacey Chabert as a VP of Brand Management for a small advertising company. She's unlucky in love, and is absolutely freaking out that, at age 30, she's still unmarried.
The movie is written and directed by Corbin Bernsen, and so I have to lay a lot of blame at his feet, but also know he was having to make a movie for people who are maybe not really aware of how some of te things they wanted in their movie would play. The film does have appearances by the eternally lovely Morgan Fairchild, Brian Keith, Stephen Tobolowsky, Bernsen, John O'Hurley and one actress I remember who was really pushed on us in sitcoms like 15 years ago.
On the surface level, it's a romantic comedy/ drama about a woman finding God while also finding a Good Man.
On a meta level, this movie is essentially a warning shot to accomplished women who are being told they're a failure without a man. Beware: you will have your entire life destroyed by people pretending good will but who will throw you away without batting an eye.
