Oh toora loura loura isn’t it only the luck of the Irish that on this sure bleedin’ jaysus film is based. The concept of women being able to propose to men in a leap year – how preposterous!

Sure anyway that is what this film is about and isn’t it of course an American lass, Anna Brady, played by Amy Adams who goes about attempting to do so to her most successful surgeon boyfriend who happens to be doing some sort of surgery, “ironically” enough, in Dublin.

This film commences in the urbanised setting of New York City where wannabe city slicker Anna is attempting to make a name for herself in the world of interior design.  

On the outside this girl has it all: the career, the hot doctor boyfriend and a Sex And The City lifestyle except her dad, played by the wonderfully amusing John Lithgow, is a drunk and her boyfriend is showing no signs of getting down on one knee.

She is clearly, like the best of us women, marriage-mad and wants real commitment with her hot ticket to a privileged lifestyle. Coincidentally enough it’s a Leap Year and what better time for a girl to propose?

So she heads to Ireland but lands in County Kerry for some unfortunate reason and attempts to make her way to Dublin where she plans to embarrass herself by causing disarray to tradition.

Poor Anna is not fully educated in the realm of Irish tradition and hospitality and ends up enlisting Kerryman, Declan; played by Matthew Goode, to drive her on the long and winding journey to Dublin in a banger of a car.

Most of this film was filmed in Ireland and it gives great insight into the beauty of our stunning rural landscape, even in the rain. The funniest scenes arise in the juxtaposition of the poor little American girl, the rough-and-tumble dirty Irish boggers and the true beauty of Ireland comes to light in the contrast between NYC and our Emerald Isle.

This film is certainly worth the watch, towards the end it drags a little as ya wait for it to wrap up but it comes in at 90 minutes and you’ll leave with a smile on your face…particularly if you have a storage of oestrogen and progesterone on your person.

Emer Molloy