Kate & Leopold is a charming romantic comedy featuring a time traveling Lord who falls in love with a modern city girl. Hugh Jackman is the Leopold who through inexplicable time travel mumbo-jumbo follows scientist Liev Schreiber through a temporal rift leaving the 19th century and arriving in the 21st Century. Here he meets Kate McKay (Meg Ryan) a modern career woman who has no time for Leopold's courtly manners. The film has some interesting things to say about the speed of modern life and the lack of principles and priorities. Jackman and Ryan have good chemistry, but I am getting tired of seeing Meg Ryan in these kind of roles. Thank goodness they didn't ask Tom Hanks to play Leopold.
Enjoyable fluff that's good to watch on a cold, rainy night. Get a blanket, some hot chocolate and watch this sweet, romantic confection.
At The Movie House rating ***stars
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