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“Leap Year Movie”

Introduction  

ü  Title : Leap Year

ü  Genre : romantic comedy film

ü  Running time : 100 minutes

ü  Director : Anand Tucker

ü  Characters :

·   Amy Adams as Anna Brady

·    Matthew Goode as Declan O’Callaghan

·   Adam Scott as Jeremy (Anna’s boyfriend)

·   Kaitlin Olson as Libby (Anna’s best friend)

This film is written by Deborah Kaplan and Harry Elfont telling about a woman’s journey to Ireland to propose to her boyfriend in leap year. Leap year is published on January 8, 2010 in United States. Anna Brady, played by Amy Adams, is an over-organized young woman who has a job as an apartment organizer. Declan, played by Matthew Goode, is the owner of a local pub in Dingle, Ireland.

Review  

The story is begun when Anna is frustrated because Jeremy, her boyfriend, has not purposed to her yet. They have had a relationship for three years. Jeremy is in Dublin city, Ireland, to do his job as a doctor. He is very busy and does not have a time for dating with Anna. According to Ireland tradition, in leap day, it s allowed a woman to propose to her boyfriend, so Anna decides to go to Dublin city, Ireland. She goes to Dublin three days before the leap day by a plane. Unfortunately, the weather is too bad that causes Anna’s plane landed in Cardiff. She never gives up go to Dublin by a boat. The new problem happens, Anna cannot arrive at Dublin because of the weather, as a result, she arrives at Dingle (a small city in Ireland). She comes to a pub and hires the pub’s owner, Declan O’Callaghan, to take her to Dublin because Dingle is too far from Dublin.

Declan refuses to drive Anna to Dublin, but after his pub is threatened with foreclosure the next morning, he agrees to drive her for €500. Before they leave, Declan gets frustrated at Anna's suitcase and she snaps at him telling him to be careful, as her expensive Louis Vuitton suitcase was a gift from her boyfriend. They set out in Declan's old car, but they quickly run into a herd of cows blocking the road. Anna shoos them away but steps in cow dung, causing her to lean against the car, which rolls down hill into a lake. They have a quarrel and Anna walks away from him. She stops another car for a lift, but after offering to help her, three guys just take her bags and drive away.

Anna and Declan eventually reach a pub where they discover the three thieves going through Anna's suitcase. Declan hits them, then Declan and Anna are kicked out by the landlord. Anna and Declan reach a railway station on foot. The train arrives early, and Anna misses it. They go to a bed and breakfast, where they are forced to pretend that they are married couple so that their conservative hosts will allow them to stay. During dinner, Anna and Declan are 'forced' to kiss, which causes some confusion for them. That night, they sleep in the same bed. The next day, they take shelter from a hail storm in a church where a wedding is taking place, after a series of events, Anna gets drunk. At this point, Anna begins to question her intentions with Jeremy when she realizes that she has fallen in love with Declan.

The following day they arrive by bus in Dublin. When they arrive at Jeremy's hotel, Jeremy surprises her and proposes to her, and she accepts after she realizes that Declan walks away. At the engagement party of Anna and Jeremy, Anna pulls fire alarm and she knows that Jeremy would like to protect his electronics rather than Anna. So, Anna decides to cancel her engagement and she comes back to Dingle Peninsula in County Kerry, where Declan is successfully running his inn/ restaurant. She proposes that they get together and 'not make plans', and Declan leaves the room. Anna interprets this as a rejection, so she goes outside and ends up on a cliff overlooking the sea. Declan follows her and proposes to her with the family ring he retrieved from his ex-fiancée while in Dublin. At the end of this story, they get married and live happily.

Evaluation

This movie is one of the best movies that I have ever watched. It is very interesting movie. I like the story because it is not very serious and funny story. Amy Adams and Matthew Goode played their characters very real, so I can feel the real situation among of them, even when they were on the way to Dublin. There are many funny actions happening in that movie, especially when Anna tries to get the train, but she falls. The next interesting thing is the locations of the movie are very beautiful; I want to go to Ireland because of this movie. I can get the moral value of this movie: a hard effort will bring us to the happiness and a boy/girlfriend will not always be our true love.

Besides, this movie has a weakness: sometime, the place is edited and the editing is not good that makes the audiences know about the truth. There are also many odious things and this movie just focus on Anna and Declan. They appear in that movie so often and make it a little boring.

            In generally, this movie is interesting. You should watch it because it can entertain you when you are in trouble with your boy/girlfriend.