If you've seen the preview, which shows you snippets up to the last ten minutes of the movie, you can probably guess how this film ends. Amy Adamas plays the lovable perfectionist Anna, a stager for retail properties. Her seemingly perfect life is accompanied by a perfect boyfriend who only needs to propose to make things, well....perfect. Anna is convinced he will pop the question as he takes her out for a special date at a nice restaurant and presents her with a tiny square box from an exclusive jewelry store. Inside....is a pair of diamond solitaire earrings. Mr. Perfect jets off to a conference in Dublin, Ireland leaving Anna confused. As she mulls over why she is not engaged she remembers the conversation she conveniently had with her father hours earlier. One of her Irish ancestors proposed to a man on Leap Day, which is apparently on old Irish tradition, so Anna decides to hop the pond and propose to her boyfriend. With only days to make this happen a predictable series of obstacles including a local, rugged Irishman get in her way and force Anna to really consider why she's doing what she's doing. While the movie plays out along familiar paths it still holds a few clever lines and some engaging scenes. We are treated to a romantic Ireland of small village pubs and inns and ancient ruined castles. The cast of supporting characters are charmingly two dimensional. Amy Adams turns in a chick-flick worthy performance with little depth and Michael Goode is the likable rough around the edges love interest. We've seen this before, we've loved it before. It's worth seeing again. Leap Year probably won't win any Oscars, but it's a feel-good love story that's pretty to look at. Enjoy it for what it is.
Review of Leap Year
