‘A Whitewater Romance’ Hallmark Channel Review: Stream It Or Skip It? [Video]

Hallmark Channel romances are almost always predictable and comforting, but sometimes they lean too far into stereotypes and clichés that veer so far out of reality that it’s distracting. That is, unfortunately, what happened with the network’s latest movie, A Whitewater Romance, about a Manhattanite who goes on a work retreat in the Rocky Mountains and finds herself out of her comfort zone until she starts to connect with her rugged, outdoorsy colleague. Instead of building a plausible relationship between the two characters, the movie is a lazy river of jokes that poke fun at this New Yorker who prefers pedicures to pine cones and sushi to sunshine. By the end, you’ll wish your couch would capsize.

Opening Shot:The movie opens with gorgeous overhead shots of a river running through the Rocky Mountains, and then we cut away to the harsher urban landscape of New York City, where publicist Maya Alvaro (Cindy Busby) …