When a single lady with a long standing relationship decides to marry, she can do so in Ireland during a leap year. It has been a tradition that women can propose on Bachelor's Day and the man proposed to must accept.
So Anna Brady (played by Amy Adams) pushed herself to Ireland to follow her boyfriend Jeremy Sloane (played by Adam Scott) so she can "propose" to him. In her journey there, her flight was diverted due to bad weather. She tried all efforts to reach him in Dublin even hiring a boat amidst the rough seas. She eventually reached a town called Dingle where she asked the local bar owner Declan O'Callaghan (played by Matthew Goode) to take her to Dublin. He agreed to take her for 500 Euros. Then the journey starts.
To make the movie interesting, our duo had to go through an ordeal on their way to Dublin. A lot of things happen along the way, both good and bad. Anna still has the passion to reach Dublin at all cost but waivers already her feelings for Jeremy. In her travel to reach him, she has gotten to know more about Declan and she is slowly falling in love with him. Her situation with Jeremy prevents her from showing off this love and likewise Declan tried to express his feelings but somehow things do not fall in his favor.
In the end, Anna fell out of love with Jeremy and flies back to Dingle to meet with Declan. She proposed to him and he simply left. Feeling turned down, Anna went off to cliff overlooking the waters of Dingle to mope, but then Declan followed her. He asked her why she left the bar and she said he was turned down. Declan mentioned that he didn't say anything but instead he left to get something. And that something was his mother's ring. He knelt on one knee and he proposed to her.
The first time we saw Matthew Goode was his portrayal of a secret service agent in Chasing Liberty with Mandy Moore. He really does great in romantic comedies so this one is no exception. He reall is a cool guy here, stoic and has been hurt already in the past so he had a heart of stone in this one. It took an american lady in Amy Adams to melt his heart slowly and pushes him to love again.
Amy Adams is a talented actress and from what we can deduce from the roles she has taken, she gives each one a separate life. We can see each character come to life and her acting does not mirror or be similar with the others. In her bit roles in "Catch me if you can" her portrayal as nurse, it endeared to us. Then we saw her again in that Disney movie "Enchanted" where she showed us her talent in singing and dancing. That too was memorable to us and until now we keep singing that song in our heads whenever we remember that movie. She wowed us as that spunky Amelia Earheart in "Night at the Museum", the shy and timid girl in "Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby" opposite of Will Ferrell. She showed us she can dish out some comedy as well. In the drama department, she dished it out with the great Client Eastwood in "Trouble with the Curve". If you watched her in all those films, her performances were not the same in our view and we just love her for doing it. She is also the Lois Lane in the recent Superman franchise so just you know.
There were three characters that resonate with us here in the movie and that the two, Amy Adams and Matthew Goode carried the bulk of the movie to greater heights. They had an onscreen chemistry that we liked and the romantic interludes between although they kept it, we can feel the vibe the way they held their feelings in check.
A must watch for romcom addicts out there. Lucky for you its being shown in Amazon Prime Video right now.
