I hate Hallmark "royal movies." The plots are bad. The accents ridiculous. The vountry names even more. Just stop! Cindy Busby? Her acting is terrible. No growth whatsoever. Felt like I was watching Ashley on Heartland. At least James Brolin provides some comic relief in this one,

Corny humor, weak script, subpar acting, casting all over the place (I mean, pick an accent, please). Just all around bad.

Montana rancher Hank Pavlik (James Brolin) inherits a estate in a fictional European country, and reluctantly becomes the King of the country.Hank's daughter Kelly (Cindy Busby) is his daughter that stars along side of Alex (Andrew Cooper) the estates groundskeeper.This is the most disappointing HM movie of the year, it had so much potential to be funny....... but it wasn't. The script is poor which required the actors to over act, and it is obvious that it prevented them from being even good. The chemistry between the leads is very poor.

Cute and likable Cindy Busby accounts for almost all of my stars with one star reserved for the male lead. Royal Hearts is an extremely hackneyed plot which presents no surprises, twists, or suspense. It strictly follows the template set forth in innumerable Royal themed romances. Fish out of water heroine and in this case, her Dad, shakes up the royal protocol, is briefly seduced by a royal handsome bad guy, but ends up with the "poor" commoner she had a meet cute with at the beginning after rubbing each other the wrong way throughout most of the movie. Oh. And the kingdom gains its independence thanks to the Americans. I started out looking forward to seeing James Brolin, but he quickly out-wore his welcome with his over the top impression of Sam Elliot. It was kinda funny that the first scene in the movie is Cindy teaching Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, which intentionally or unintentionally hearkens back to her breakthrough role as Elizabeth in Unleashing Mr. Darcy.