The Sweeter Side of Life

 Desiree Harper's perfect life as the wife of a high-powered Manhattan doctor comes to a sudden end when her husband says he wants a divorce. To make matters worse, he invokes their ironclad pre-nup, leaving her penniless. Desiree soon finds herself abandoned by her rich friends and moves back to New Jersey to help her father run his struggling bakery. Though Desiree wants nothing more than to return to her high-class life, spending time with her father causes her to see things differently. She rediscovers her love of baking and puts her business degree to work to save her fatherΓÇÖs shop.  When DesireeΓÇÖs success at the bakery leads to an unexpected opportunity, will she choose to recapture what she's lost, or what she's recently found?																													The Sweeter Side of Life is a 2013 Hallmark Channel Original romantic comedy starring Kathryn Morris and James Best. The made-for-television film was co-written and co-produced by Michael Damian and his wife Janeen Damian. The Sweeter Side of Life is the seventh film by the husband and wife team; continuing in the family film genre, and with family involvement, James Best, Janeen Damian's father, plays the father of the protagonist. Michael Damian's newest single, "Rock My Heart", is also featured in the film.

 
Plot

A pampered Manhattanite, Desiree Harper (Morris), is shunned from her circle of well-heeled friends when her husband, Wade Harper (Stephen Hogan), a successful plastic surgeon, announces he wants a divorce. The terms of her prenuptial agreement leaves her penniless,[1] so she returns to her family home in Flemington, New Jersey to live with her father, Paddy Kerrigan (Best), where she helps with the family business, a bakery. Alienated from her roots and emotionally unavailable to love-interest, Benny Christophe (Alastair Mackenzie), a life as a baker is unacceptable to Desiree.

Desiree discovers that the bakery is also having financial difficulties; she develops a gourmet cupcake that becomes wildly popular, bringing success to the bakery and franchising offers from corporate America. Desiree is faced with the ultimatum of selling out her father in order to return to her former lifestyle. Desiree finds that her re-emergence into the real-world has affected her sensibilities, she is now capable of consideration for others and receptive to a new relationship with Benny.
																											Cast
Kathryn Morris as Desiree Harper 
James Best as Paddy Kerrigan
Alastair Mackenzie as Benny Christophe
Steve Varnom as Eddie Rubinski
Sam Douglas as Dino Ravettino
Stephen Hogan as Wade Harper
Jerome Holder as Calvin																																		Genre	Romantic comedy
Directed by	Michael Damian
Produced by	Janeen Damian
 Michael Damian
Written by	Janeen Damian
 Michael Damian
Starring								Kathryn Morris
James Best
Music by	Mark Thomas
Cinematography	Viorel Sergovici
Editing by	Seth Flaum
Ovidiu Vacaru
Production company	Motion Picture Corporation of America
Riviera Films 
Country	United States
Language	English
Original channel	Hallmark Channel
Original airing	January 19, 2013
Running time	90 minutes