Rom-coms are like mashed potatoes. We look to them on occasion for comfort and predictability, and are pleasantly surprised when they offer originality as well.

When a movie has a title like “Falling Inn Love,” our expectations skew fairly low from the outset. But, hey, there are films that keep you glued to the screen, and there are those you’re content to watch while sorting socks. You can guess which kind this one is.

Directed by Roger Kumble and streaming on Netflix, “Falling Inn Love,” is wrapped around the romantic notion of inn-keeping, a perk (or predicament) that Gabriela Diaz (Christina Milian) wins in an online contest. That she is a hard-core Californian impedes her only briefly because, having just lost her job and boyfriend, she faces just one obstacle: closing the distance between San Francisco and that inn, Bellbird Valley Farm, which is in New Zealand. (At this point the movie feels vaguely reminiscent of the CW series “Hart of Dixie,” about a transplanted urbanite struggling with a new culture.)