Leap Year
Disappointed on several occasions by her boy friends failure to propose to her, Anna plans to take a bold step, but just then she meets a man who a really been in love.
19 August 1948, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
28 November 1966, Evanston, Illinois, USA
1975, Dublin, Ireland
3 April 1973, Santa Cruz, California, USA
October 05, 2011
The bright spot in this boggy botched mess is Amy Adams, a fine and always interesting actress who sparkles and shines here despite the stilted storyline, preposterous improbabilities and an artificially sweetened storybook ending.
May 08, 2010
...generic romantic comedy about a beautiful young woman (Amy Adams, experiencing a career low) who plans to land her commitment-shy boyfriend by flying to Ireland and surprising him by proposing on Feb. 29
January 09, 2010
Leap Year is a sweet little movie, although so by the books that it doesn't exactly distinguish itself
March 12, 2010
Adams is cute as a button, as always, but even she can't energize this tired excuse for a comedy.
January 08, 2010
The most charming of actors can be left flailing in the face of a feeble script and direction.
January 14, 2010
In Hollywood, it's all about the concept, and some studio executive must have thought it would be fun to watch Adams slogging around in the Irish mud. Unfortunately, there's no accounting for taste.
January 08, 2010
What makes Leap Year so singularly dispiriting is precisely that it is bad without distinction â" so witless, charmless and unimaginative that it can be described as a movie only in a strictly technical sense.
January 08, 2010
Leap Year may be the least funny Hollywood comedy to take advantage of Irish tax credits since The Honeymooners.
May 09, 2010
...a familiar yet watchable piece of work...
February 26, 2010
Rubbish. Irish eyes will be hard pressed to grimace, let alone smile.
February 26, 2010
While thereâ(TM)s some chemistry between the pair, itâ(TM)s not enough to compensate for their paper-thin characters, never mind all the crosseyed Guinness-swilling extras.
March 25, 2010
Scribes Deborah Kaplan and Harry Elfont rely heavily on the dramatic Irish landscape - and it is dramatic - to make up for the lack of drama in their script.
