Good news for the Irish film industry. Bad news for haters of twee Oirish clichés. Amy Adams is to star in Leap Year, a full scale Hollywood production that will be set and shot in Ireland. Given the title it should come as no surprise that she'll play a woman who plans to travel to Dublin to propose to her boyfriend on that date, because according to the film it’s an Irish tradition. That's news to us and nearly every other Irish person but let's not pick at the details. Anyway, her plans are ruined by weather (presumably the most accurate part of the film's depiction of Ireland) and she’s forced to undergo a cross-country trek, accompanied by a surly Irish innkeeper, in order to make the proposal in time.
A fuckin innkeeper?! Is it set in the 1800's? Expect Guinness and Leprechauns and vomit washing down the aisles of Irish cinemas. Maybe we're being overly cynical but
but the film has been written by Harry Elfont and Deb Kaplan, the screenwriting duo behind Made Of Honor , a film that managed the remarkable feat of being more annoying than it's title (okay we didn't see it but the trailer was grating enough). We'll say one good thing about this movie. Amy Adams is in it and she's a great actress and a seriously likable screen presence. Maybe she'll distract us from the crimes against Irishness.
