Leap Year (2010) on Netflix
Anna Brady has waited four years for Jeremy to propose. An Irish tradition lets women ask on February 29, so she flies to Dublin, where a storm strands her in Dingle.
- Netflix3.7/5
- IMDb6.5/10117,472 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes23%
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Plot summary
Anna Brady works as a real estate stager in Boston and has dated Jeremy Sloane, a cardiologist, for four years without a proposal. Her father, Jack, tells her about an Irish tradition called Bachelor's Day that lets a woman propose to a man on February 29. Anna decides to fly to Dublin, where Jeremy is attending a conference, and ask him there. A storm diverts her plane to Cardiff in Wales, and a boat across the Irish Sea puts her ashore in the village of Dingle. She offers Declan O'Callaghan, who runs the local pub, money to drive her to Dublin, and he agrees to take her for five hundred euros because his pub faces foreclosure.
Cast
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Leap Year (2010)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- The film's lead actor Matthew Goode admitted "I just know that there are a lot of people who will say it is the worst film of 2010," and revealed that the main reason he signed on was so that he could work close to home and see his girlfriend and newborn daughter.
- Donald Clarke of The Irish Times gave the film one star out of five and called it "offensive, reactionary, patronising filth", while Paul Whitington of the Irish Independent described it as "grotesque and insulting paddywhackery" and said Goode "struggle[d] badly with his accent".
- The film found a second life on disc: it placed 5th on the DVD sales chart with an estimated 159,843 units, and had sold almost 800,000 units in total to April 2013.
- Principal photography took place in County Wicklow, Dublin, County Mayo and County Galway, including the Aran Islands, Connemara, Temple Bar, Georgian Dublin, Wicklow National Park and Olaf Street in Waterford.
