Leap Year

Whoosh!"Thank God, I thought as we plopped into our assigned seats. We were heading to San Francisco, and I was nervously thinking about all my assignments that were due the next week. What we won't do for love? the Memorial Day weekend, clearly not a good time to take a break, but I'm the adventurous type, and it's not often my homebody hubby likes to travel. So I said sign me up.

Well here I'm am at my sister-in-law's home, along with my lovely niece who recently got accepted to Berkeley while the rest of our clan, went to check out the local community college that my nephew will be attending, and then go for a walk. I hope they won't forget us, cause we haven't had dinner, but with my sister-in-law in charge, it isn't likely.

Well, as I was looking at a four hours plus flight square in the eyes,so I nearly fell over my neighbor plucking the earphones from the flight attendant's hands. I frankly, didn't care that the audio was garbled along with hissing sounds between the intellible worthless cliche dialogues.

Romantic comedies aren't my thing, but the choices didn't look promising; it was between watching the movie or struggling to keep my eyes open through the humming of the hypnotic engines. You can guess what I chose. Amy Adams stars in the movie, who apparently is the flavor of the month in Hollywood, along side new hunky leading man, Mathew Goode in an unlikely love connection.

The premise of the movie is the typical scenario,a desperate 20 something female desiring to secure a future mate which translates, nowadays into nabbing herself a doctor. In the old fairy tales it was a prince on a white Arab charger, in the present day capitalist class conscious society, it's the god-like physician donning a long white lab coat and and stethescope encircling his neck.

Ana(Amy Adams) is frustrated by her beau's lack of interest to seal the deal, and pop the question. After discussing Irish customs with her father, there is one particular custom that intrigues her;the custom that allows the female to do the asking.

How original.


So, I was a captive audience, and it was a good thing because I would asked for my money back.

Don't bother checking it out on dvd.