Meanwhile, Max (Ian Harding<\/a>) is a sous chef in Los Angeles who has always dreamed of his own restaurant but finds himself toiling away under a pompous celebrity chef. He hasn\u2019t let go of his dream but after a failed pop-up restaurant went south, he feels like he\u2019s got no business acumen. When his friend Julian tells him he met a billionaire who wants to invest in a restaurant, Max reluctantly agrees to meet the rich guy, but he lives in, you guessed it, Fiji. Julian, a private jet pilot, arranges for Max to travel on his next flight out, but the catch is that Max has to pretend he\u2019s the flight attendant. This is, of course, Sophia\u2019s flight. <\/p>\n Sophia realizes something is off about Max (as a chef, he makes a great cocktail but can\u2019t figure out how to close the cabin door). But before they can get into any of that, the plane suffers a malfunction and is forced to crash land in the middle of the ocean, where they eventually wash ashore on a deserted island. The pilots, Julian and Lance, take a raft to find help and soon they make it to civilization and end up leading a search party to find Max and Sophia, but it takes a few days. In that time, Max and Sophia adapt to their surroundings (his skills as a chef help feed them, her skills as a seamstress give them shelter and protective clothing). As they fend off sharks and snakes and an actual gang of pirates hiding out in the jungle, they start to fall for each other, leaving them to wonder, what\u2019s going to happen between them if they ever get rescued?<\/p>\n What Movies Will It Remind You Of?<\/strong> It\u2019s impossible not to think you\u2019ve seen this movie before, and that\u2019s because there have been plenty of movies about romances that blossom in the tropics or while stranded on a desert island, like The Blue Lagoon<\/a>, Swept Away<\/a>, Six Days Seven Nights<\/a>, and my personal favorite, Romancing The Stone<\/a>. <\/p>\n Performance Worth Watching: <\/strong>I couldn\u2019t help but feel like James Trevena, who plays Julian the pilot, is a long-lost Hemsworth brother. For that reason alone, he was eminently watchable.<\/p>\n Sex And Skin: <\/strong>As the days on the island drag, Max and Sophia end up hacking their clothes, removing sleeves and refashioning them to be more island-appropriate, but there\u2019s nothing too revealing or sexy to speak of.<\/p>\n Our Take:<\/strong> Action-adventure romantic comedies are one of my favorite genres, probably because at a young age, I recorded Romancing the Stone when it was airing on network television one night, and I memorized it by watching it daily for the next year and it\u2019s a part of me now. So, sure, I might be biased because I have a soft spot for movies like this, but Lacey Chabert and Ian Harding make Lost in Paradise a fun, if not kinda G-rated version of Romancing the Stone. (Listen, no one can top the Kathleen Turner-Michael Douglas-Danny DeVito combo, but that\u2019s a high bar to clear, but Chabert and Harding do their best.) <\/p>\n The big difference between Lost in Paradise and other movies like it is the tone, though. Chabert and Harding are two of Hallmark\u2019s most charismatic leading actors; they exude niceness and warmth and their chemistry is heightened by how kind they both are. (Even when Chabert\u2019s Sophia is supposed to be at the peak of her powerful, boss-lady persona, she\u2019s never harsh or cruel, instead, she\u2019s basically the fictional version of that time Taylor Swift gave all of her drivers $100,000 bonuses.) There\u2019s something to be said for watching a film about people like that \u2013 sure, they\u2019re in peril for a lot of the movie, and sure, Max has to confess to Sophia that he\u2019s not really a qualified flight attendant, but they immediately realize they\u2019re in this together and rather than argue, the film sets them up to collaborate rather than to clash and this film is better for it. <\/p>\n The film fizzles out a bit once it\u2019s revealed that they\u2019ve been stranded a couple miles from a beautiful beach resort this whole time (the pirates who were hiding out on the same beach as them? Actors who were role-playing as part of an elaborate game the resort set up!) but ultimately, the romantic relationship that develops while they\u2019re stranded makes the whole thing worth it.<\/p>\n Our Call:<\/strong> Lost in Paradise is a fun, tropical adventure, but it owes most of its success to the chemistry between its two leads, Lacey Chabert and Ian Harding. STREAM IT! <\/p>\n Liz Kocan is a pop culture writer living in Massachusetts. 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