Katie Holmes and Josh Lucas star in Andy Tennant's romantic drama inspired by Rhonda Byrne's 2006 best-selling self-help book. Read THR's film review of TheSecretDaretoDream:
) — manages to avoid numerous clichés even while wallowing in others. The story, set in and around New Orleans, revolves around Miranda , a widowed mother of three children desperately struggling to make ends meet working as a waitress. Although she's dating her well-heeled restaurant owner boss, Tucker , Miranda clearly pines for her husband who was killed two years earlier in a plane crash.
One day she literally runs into Bray , a stranger who has arrived in town on a mysterious mission. After she rear-ends him in a traffic accident, Bray offers to return home with her and fix her front bumper. Taking shelter with Miranda and the kids when a hurricane breaks out, he takes the opportunity to expound on his philosophy of positive thinking, demonstrating the mysterious forces that exist in the universe by using a magnet and paper clip as visual aids.
The film works best in its slow-burn depiction of the tender friendship that develops between Miranda and Bray, although there are numerous hints that the latter is not simply the helpful stranger he appears to be. Miranda's emotional and financial troubles are similarly sensitively drawn, with many viewers, especially in these perilous times, certain to relate to her travails.
Shorn of its New Age platitudes, the film works reasonably well as a mature, feel-good romance, especially since Holmes and Lucas are so engaging that you find yourselves rooting for their characters to get together. And if you truly believe in the message of its literary inspiration, you know they eventually will.
Executive producers: The Lorenzo J. Fertitta and Teresa Jo Fertitta Family Trust, The Frank J. Fertitta III and Jill Ann Fertitta Family Trust, Jas Family Investments LLC, Bekah Brunstetter, JMJ Family, Mahaka and Company, Skye Byrne, Paul Harrington, Christopher H. Warner, Elissa Friedman
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