Leap Year (2010)

Romance / Comedy

1 hr. 40 min.

Amy Adams travels to Dublin to propose to her boyfriend, following a tradition requiring a man to say yes if proposed to on a leap day.

Rated PG for sensuality and language

Directed by: Anand Tucker

Starring: Amy Adams, Matthew Goode, Adam Scott, John Lithgow, Noel O'Donovan

Theatrical Release Date: 1/08/2010

Release Type: Wide

U.S. Box Office: $17,629,680

Video/DVD Release Date: 5/04/2010

Distributor: Universal Pictures

Country: USA / Ireland

Language: English

Offsite: IMDB | Official Site

CRITIC	RATING	QUOTE
Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert	7	This is a full-bore, PG-rated, sweet rom-com. It sticks to the track, makes all the scheduled stops and bears us triumphantly to the station. And it is populated by colorful characters, but then, when was the last time you saw a boring Irishman in a movie?
Chicago Tribune Michael Phillips	4	...another rom-com without much rom or com.
E! Leslie Gornstein	6	The only bright spot in this formulaic rom-com turns out to be its leading lady.
filmcritic.com Chris Barsanti	2	If predictability were Leap Year's only sin, then it wouldn't have been so offensively turgid. But Deborah Kaplan and Harry Elfont's direly unfunny and almost anti-romantic screenplay doesn't seem to miss a single trick in the screenwriter's handbook of hand-me-down clichés.
Slant Magazine Aaron Cutler	5	Leap Year is like most relationships: You keep waiting for it to get better, until you finally accept that it won't.
Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman	6	The director, Anand Tucker (Shopgirl), leaves things relatively uncluttered, which I appreciated. At the same time, I could have put that less generously -- as in, not very much surprising happens.
People Joey Bartolomeo	5	...cutesy, predictable...
Village Voice Brian Miller	4	Free from sex or naughty language, Leap Year appears to have been designed for that huge mother-daughter matinee market, ahem. Trust me: Take mom to It's Complicated instead.
Christian Science Monitor Peter Rainer	5	...a comfy fantasy...

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ALL AVERAGE CRITIC RATING	4.9
AVERAGE USER RATING (3 ratings)	4.0

USER REVIEWS:

mmcgown0 5

A better script would have helped. but it was cute enough for 90 minutes.

madmitch 6

Pleasant, cute.