Embracing Mercy is a story about family, music, faith, recovery, and all the ways love pursues us with second chances.
In the romantic comedy Embracing Mercy, Mercy Whitman, a quirky twenty-something who eschews an Ivy League for Massage School, discovers an inner Voice helping to guide her every move. When Mercy “follows the Voice” things seem to work out fine but when Mercy doubts this inner knowing things comically go awry. Like the time she doesn’t lock the bathroom door at her sister’s coffee shop, Java the Hut, and has to hide out in the stall while a guy enters and uses the urinal. Only to realize it is none other than the infamous, Stanner Collins, a famous but broken musician who can't quite understand what sparked their connection.
Mercy is unlike anyone Stanner has ever met, yet something in her reminds him of his late mother and he risks becoming known by someone so peculiar. After realizing she got a huge fine for a parking ticket they decide to leave her car at the coffee shop and he invites her on a motorcycle ride, that ends in stopping for tacos and dodging paparazzi, leading them back to Stanner’s home.
It is there the Voice nudges Mercy to open up, the banter escalates and before you know it they are teaching each other about love, vulnerability and the walls we put up to keep ourselves from being hurt.
After a whirlwind of meeting Mercy’s closest friends and family Stanner is swept off on his comeback tour. Mercy falls deeper in love from a distance while Stanner allows the distance to guard his heart and lead him back down a path that beckons relapse.
Both have to grow apart to realize that sometime powers greater than us will bring back around what we once refused to surrender. In finding how to love ourselves we are gifted the choice of a second chance; embracing mercy.
Comments
An interesting caricature of…
An interesting caricature of the spiritual path. It works. There is much truth in this script.
Once again, I have to say it…
Once again, I have to say it's got a pleasant wholesome feel to it but it doesn't have the X factor that makes it stand out from others if its genre. In fact, we reach page ten without having any real sense of who the main protagonist is or where the story is going. There's no dramatic moment that kicks things off.