Leap Year

Anand Tucker is the massively talented director whose credits include And When Did You Last See Your Father? and TV's Red Riding (now ­enjoying a sensational big-screen ­debut in the US). But even he can do nothing with this horrendous romcom script. Wide-eyed Amy Adams is Anna, the uptight ­Manhattan ­professional and closet ­romantic – and ah, to be sure, isn't it Oireland she's after coming to, to make a leap-year marriage proposal, and stranded there by events which would be more believable if the story was set in 1960, or maybe 1860. She is thrown together with a hunky local taxi driver played by, of all ­people, Matthew Goode – with a dodgy ­accent. Greater miscasting could only be achieved by getting Jeremy Irons to come on with a pointy hat, playing a leprechaun, while a straight-armed green-clad Edward Fox riverdances madly around him playing Charlie Haughey. Afterwards, the only "leap" I felt like making was off a motorway ­gantry into the fast lane of the M25.