Somebody had the good sense to cut half an hour off the London romance “This Time Next Year” for its Amazon streaming release. They just didn’t finish the job.

It’s a sweet-and-scenic “Hallmark Channel” love story (chaste and slow and drawn out) that reaches for cute but never quite overcomes “inert.” Attractive leads, curious “obstacles” to overcome be damned, “Next Year” is where cinematic “Time” stands still.

Sophie Cookson is our lovelorn heroine, struggling in her 30s to make a go of it with her No Hard Fillings pie catering shop. She may make a mean pie, but selling to OAP (old age pensioner) rest homes isn’t going to make anybody solvent. not with inept or indifferent help and a partner (Mandip Gill) keeping the bad news in their books from her.

Our pie baker’s always been “unlucky,” she figures. Back in 1990, she was almost “the first baby born in the New Year” in London, with her embittered mother (Monica Dolan) narrowly missing out on a big cash prize.

The woman sharing her maternity ward (Golda Rosheuvel) somehow gave birth first. And she not only took mum Connie’s coaching and good advice and the prize money, she bloody well stole the name she had planned for her baby girl — Quinn.

“Quinn” Cooper never got over the second choice name that she ended up with — Minnie. Think about it, because that’s the only laugh out loud line in the film.

Minnie runs into birthday mate Quinn (Lucien Laviscount of “Emily in Paris” and “People We Meet on Vacation) on a particularly disastrous day. Quinn is a well-off management consultant who drives his Bentley to her rescue at work, after freeing her from a public restroom where she found herself locked on New Year’s Eve, the day before her birthday.

The two put the coincidences together, but whatever sparks might fly are dampened by her obligations to a “useless” lout of an influencer/”journalist” boyfriend (Will Hislip) and the grudge she and her mother still hold about their shared birthday.

“You stole my name!”

Cookson, of the “Kingsman” movies and “Stockholm Bloodbath,” has presence and a little spark about her. But the script and her too-pretty model/actor co-star give her and this romance nowhere to go.

“Four Weddings and a Funeral” alumnus John Hannah and Dolan make an interesting couple, and Charlie Oscar steals her scenes as Minnie Cooper’s lazy, multi-hued hair delivery driver.

Structurally, this leaden film is a TV movie with obvious points for commercial breaks and pacing designed to fill a two hour+ timeslot, not move us through obstacles — one mother has agoraphobia — on our way to True Love.

A few laughs and a lot more romantic heat might have made this endurable, but not at the one hour and fifty-five minutes the creators had in mind for its release length.

Rating: TV-14

Cast: Sophie Cookson, Lucien Laviscount, Golda Rosheuvel, Mandip Gill, Will Hislip, Charlie Oscar, Monica Dolan and John Hannah.

Credits: Directed by Nick Moore, scripted by Sophie Cousens. A Radical release streaming on Amazon Prime.

Running time: 1:24