Leap Year
(PG) Roadshow Entertainment
Anna Brady (Amy Adams) has the perfect life.
With wealthy and successful surgeon Jeremy (Adam Scott) as a partner, her greatest difficulty is finding the perfect home in Manhattan.
Life is good, if only Jeremy would pop the big question and she could live happily ever after.
But his
busy life leaves Anna on the outer, a situation she's not going to allow to continue.
When Anna hears about an Irish tradition that allows women to propose on Leap Day, and with Jeremy in Dublin for a conference, an idea forms.
Despite the weather gods being against her, Anna heads to the Emerald Isle and manages to make it ashore in rural Ireland with the simple task of getting to Dublin to propose.
It's here that Leap Year develops some real warmth and magic as Anna becomes involved in rural Irish life and the slow, conservative pace that goes with it.
Despite her best efforts, Dublin gets no closer but she does develop a fondness for her abrupt Irish guide Declan (Matthew Goode).
A million miles away from her life in New York, Anna learns to love the simple Irish life.
She is forced to take a look at her life and decide what is really important to her.
There is a lovely warmth about movies set in Ireland and it's that setting and the characters Anna meets along the way that lift this story up a few notches.
