Young San Francisco career woman Gabriela Diaz (Christine Milian) has had a really rough day – she's dumped her shallow boyfriend and is newly unemployed in Falling Inn Love. Depressed and feeling sorry for herself that night, she enters an essay contest; the prize is a picturesque small-town inn set in a New Zealand countryside. When she wins, Gabriela's astonished, but with only a few second thoughts, decides to take a chance and make the trip. After a "meet cute" with Jake (Adam Demos), a local contractor (which ends in some spirited sparring), Gabriela discovers that her prize is, in fact, an inn that's literally falling apart, not "picturesque" as advertised. Disappointed but game, Gabriela sets out to turn her situation – and the inn – around. The setting is beautiful, the folks she meets are friendly, and she's got nothing to lose. Only a scheming bed & breakfast owner may stand in her way.

Without a single inventive character or original situation, the film almost succeeds on the merits of wholesomeness alone, but the stale final sequence makes it finally irredeemable. There's more romance than comedy with Falling Inn Love skimming over the beauties of transformation and avoids any mention of the challenges of funding the protagonist's pricey project, so it's simply a means of advancing the plot.

Okay for a diversion, but otherwise not recommended.