This is a Spanish-Canadian film whose profits were pledged to Paul Newman's SeriousFun Children's Network, directed by Paco Arango, a philanthropist who in 2010 created the Aladina Foundation, which provides volunteers, builds rooms for teenagers in hospitals and helps finance expenses for children and their families and in December 2011 wrote and directed Maktub, inspired by a child suffering from cancer, and for which he received three Goya Award nominations.
The plot revolves around Mechanical engineer Alec Bailey who, after a life of excess and waste and finding himself in trouble after the death of his parents and his twin Charle, finds that an unknown uncle named Raymond offers to pay off all his debts on the condition that he moves to Nova Scotia for a year.
Forced by the situation, he does so and in the bucolic town, situations arise, many of them with humorous overtones that suggest he has a strange power to heal, something he denies and that seems to him superstition or collective madness.
Oliver Jackson-Cohen, known for having played Phillip White in Lark Rise to Candleford, plays Alec and Camilla Luddington plays Cecilia, a veterinarian who is the person with whom the young man interacts since his arrival and with whom he even works, she plays Dr. Jo Wilson in the television series Grey's Anatomy.
Jonathan Pryce won in 1995 as best actor at the Cannes International Film Festival and is known for playing the governor of Port Royal, Weatherby Swann, in the first three films of the Pirates of the Caribbean film saga between 2003 and 2007 plays Alec's uncle, while Jorge Garcia who appears in the police TV series Hawaii 5-0, as Jerry Ortega plays Father Malloy and Kaitlyn Bernard as Abigail.
It was released in February 2017 and opinions have been mixed, however the collection exceeded 12 million dollars.
Personally, I think it is a good movie with all the necessary ingredients to entertain and keep the viewer in their seats.