Reviews

Palm Cove, Cairns, is the real star of this film and steals the show from start to finish.

Saw a reviewer below call it a zoom backdrop...

Nope. That's Far North Queensland, Australia for you! Sublime. The light and tropical beauty is all 100% authentic to that part of the world.

The only downsides to this is that is very apparent when "overseas" scenes do take place (nope, still Cairns!) and the abundance of American accents is off putting when this is such an Aussie setting. Would love to have seen authenticity fully embraced!

Overall, this is a lovely, romantic movie with a truly dreamy setting that is firmly in the G rating, no need to worry about kids around while playing!

Imagine making the version of Persuasion in which the graceful, gentle, mature, intelligent, kind and selfless Anne Elliot swigs wine from a bottle, hollers at Wentworth out a window, talks utter nonsense about an octopus, wears a basket on her head and jam above her lip, and worst of all; drops a squat behind a tree, then slips on her own pee!

I guess Jane Austen was too classy for Netflix...