i watch this film with a group of friend at the 1999 melbourne international film festival and no one have a good word for it . i happen to love bluegrass and country music so it not a if i be unsympathetic to the subject matter . but the problem be that at heart it a very conservative movie little more than a filmed mill and boon story . a bodice ripper of the most simple minded and soppy kind . it not just that the love story at it heart and that between reece and dr. lily penleric be more than a tad unbelievable . ( why any male would be attract to the nostril flaring man devour lily be beyond me and and frankly and mike harding a reece seem to be just go through the motion ) . it simply that the whole movie be too tame and well mannered for it own good . there be precious little danger and dirt or drama . sure there a moment of excitement involve a school run by lily young sister and but this whole episode be funny than it be dramatic ( it just so poorly write and act ) . and the movie betray it conservative agenda in the manner in which this subplot be resolve . a for good old reece kinkaid ( now and what wrong with a name like eberneezer bumpass . ) i ask you . be the end of this film believable . fitting in with the character this film have earlier construct . i think not .