Leap Year
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+When yet another anniversary passes without a marriage proposal from her boyfriend, Anna decides to take action. Aware of a Celtic tradition that allows women to pop the question on Feb. 29, she plans to follow her lover to Dublin and ask him to marry her. Fate has other plans, however, and Anna winds up on the other side of the Emerald Isle with handsome, but surly, Declan -- an Irishman who may just lead Anna down the road to true love.
What critics thought
Critics were almost uniformly dismissive of Leap Year, citing lazy Celtic stereotypes, a formulaic script, and jokes that don't land — though Amy Adams consistently drew sympathy even from reviewers who savaged everything around her. The sharpest divide was between a handful of transatlantic critics who found it harmless if forgettable rom-com fodder and Irish critics who found its portrayal of Ireland outright offensive.
“It sticks to the track, makes all the scheduled stops, and bears us triumphantly to the station”
Roger Ebert·Chicago Sun-Times
“The film functions as the cinematic equivalent of a Shamrock Shake: sickeningly, artificially sweet, formulaic, and about as authentically Gaelic as an Irish Spring commercial”
Nathan Rabin·The A.V. Club
“so witless, charmless, and unimaginative, that it can be described as a movie only in a strictly technical sense”
A. O. Scott·The New York Times
“offensive, reactionary, patronising filth”
Donald Clarke·The Irish Times
“the charms of Amy Adams rescue Leap Year from Truly Awful status”
Richard Roeper·RichardRoeper.com
Genres
Comedy, Romance
Cast & Crew
Anand TuckerDirector
Amy AdamsAnna Brady
Matthew GoodeDeclan
Adam ScottJeremy
John LithgowJack Brady
Noel O'DonovanSeamus
Tony RohrFrank
Pat LaffanDonal
Alan DevlinJoe
Ian McElhinneyPriest
Dominique McElligottBride
Mark O'ReganCaptain
Maggie McCarthyEileen
Randy EdelmanComposer
Deborah KaplanWriter
Harry ElfontWriter
Newton Thomas SigelCinematographyLeap Year
When yet another anniversary passes without a marriage proposal from her boyfriend, Anna decides to take action. Aware of a Celtic tradition that allows women to pop the question on Feb. 29, she plans to follow her lover to Dublin and ask him to marry her. Fate has other plans, however, and Anna winds up on the other side of the Emerald Isle with handsome, but surly, Declan -- an Irishman who may just lead Anna down the road to true love.
What critics thought
Critics were almost uniformly dismissive of Leap Year, citing lazy Celtic stereotypes, a formulaic script, and jokes that don't land — though Amy Adams consistently drew sympathy even from reviewers who savaged everything around her. The sharpest divide was between a handful of transatlantic critics who found it harmless if forgettable rom-com fodder and Irish critics who found its portrayal of Ireland outright offensive.
“It sticks to the track, makes all the scheduled stops, and bears us triumphantly to the station”
Roger Ebert·Chicago Sun-Times
“The film functions as the cinematic equivalent of a Shamrock Shake: sickeningly, artificially sweet, formulaic, and about as authentically Gaelic as an Irish Spring commercial”
Nathan Rabin·The A.V. Club
“so witless, charmless, and unimaginative, that it can be described as a movie only in a strictly technical sense”
A. O. Scott·The New York Times
“offensive, reactionary, patronising filth”
Donald Clarke·The Irish Times
“the charms of Amy Adams rescue Leap Year from Truly Awful status”
Richard Roeper·RichardRoeper.com
Genres
Comedy, Romance
Cast & Crew
Anand TuckerDirectorAmy AdamsAnna BradyMatthew GoodeDeclanAdam ScottJeremyJohn LithgowJack BradyNoel O'DonovanSeamusTony RohrFrankPat LaffanDonalAlan DevlinJoeIan McElhinneyPriestDominique McElligottBrideMark O'ReganCaptainMaggie McCarthyEileenRandy EdelmanComposerDeborah KaplanWriterHarry ElfontWriterNewton Thomas SigelCinematographyRent & Buy
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