Leap Year is a 2010 romantic comedy film directed by Anand Tucker and written by Harry Elfont and Deborah Kaplan.
The plot revolves around Anna Brady (Adams), who decides to travel to Dublin to propose to her boyfriend on leap day, as Irish tradition allows.
Boston real estate stager Anna Brady is frustrated that Jeremy, her boyfriend of four years, has still not proposed, even though they are about to move into an upscale apartment together.
She hires a boat to take her across the Irish Sea to Ireland, but due to the storm, she is put ashore in the small seaside village of Dingle.
Along the way, she tells him she plans to invoke an Irish tradition, Bachelor's Day, which allows women to propose to men on February 29.
At their engagement party back in Boston, Anna discovers why Jeremy proposed; the co-op board of the apartment building were unlikely to approve their application if they were not married.
Some time later, they drive away in Declan's car with a "Just Married" sign and Anna tosses aside the map, leaving their destination open to fate.
[5] On November 23, Anand Tucker signed on to direct the film, with Harry Elfont and Deborah Kaplan collaborating on the screenplay.
The decision to choose Edelman came as a surprise, as Tucker had used Barrington Pheloung for two of his previous films, Hilary & Jackie and When Did You Last See Your Father?.
[11] An audio CD soundtrack for Leap Year was released on the Varèse Sarabande record label on January 12, 2010.
Those include: The film opened at the American box office at number 6, with a modest US$9,202,815, behind blockbusters Avatar, Sherlock Holmes, Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel, as well as Daybreakers and It's Complicated.
The site's critical consensus reads: "Amy Adams is as appealing as ever, but her charms aren't enough to keep Leap Year from succumbing to an overabundance of clichés and an unfunny script.
[18][19] Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave it three out of four stars, and described Leap Year as a "full-bore, PG-rated, sweet rom-com".
Club, gave it a grade of C− and concluded, "The film functions as the cinematic equivalent of a Shamrock Shake: sickeningly, artificially sweet, formulaic, and about as authentically Gaelic as an Irish Spring commercial".
[23] Richard Roeper gave it a C−, stating that it had a "recycled plot, lame sight gags, Leprechaun-like stock Irish characters," adding that "the charms of Amy Adams rescue Leap Year from Truly Awful status".
[25] Paul Whitington of the Irish Independent described the film as "grotesque and insulting paddywhackery" and said Goode "struggle[d] badly with his accent".