Love stories sometimes try to woo us the way that actual lovers do — they pour on the charm, the wit, the flirting, and in this early stage it’s easy to be dazzled. Whether or not the relationship takes can be determined only later, once we’re worked our way past the original faรงade and found out what lies underneath.
“At Middleton” gives a hell of a first impression, what with Andy Garcia and Vera Farmiga giving crazy amounts of chemistry as mismatched parents getting to know each other while touring a college campus with their respective children. But the deeper we delve into the screenplay by Glenn German and director Adam Rodgers, the more obvious it becomes that there’s not much going on under the surface.