Jason Cermak is very stiff throughout and is also rather bland, furthermore he never seemed to fit. Unfortunately, there are a large number of shortcomings. The scenery is very beautiful and very nicely shot. Also found the dogs truly cute and with a lot of personality. Lee Majors and Lindsay Wagner also register strongly and their subplot and roles are a lot more interesting than the central one and the conflict. Her character is a flawed one but not overly flawed and she grows, unlike the other characters. The best thing about it is Lilley, who is a radiantly charming presence and works very hard in making the film without trying too hard. Hallmark have made a lot of good films, some surprisingly so, and made some good ones in 2017, but 'Eat, Play, Love' is a long way from being one of them. It never grabbed me in story and character writing and the leading man was just wrong. It however does nothing to make the premise more appealing, it actually accentuates it, and just never gelled for me. 'Eat, Play, Love' has its good things and the two main reasons as to why it was watched are two of the redeeming qualities. Also there have been Hallmark films with bad premises that turned out to be a lot more tasteful and better than expected.
As well as Hallmark completest sake, they were my main reasons for seeing 'Eat, Play, Love'. Still saw 2017's third Summer Nights film 'Eat, Play, Love' as someone who likes dogs (was scared of them for a while but being with friends with well trained dogs has helped) and who has seen Jen Lilley give good performances in the right roles. In all honesty, the premise was not that appealing at all and sounded very shallow and sleazy.