(rated PG-13, 118 mins.)
Kate (Meg Ryan) is a market analysis executive who makes a life out of pleasing test audiences. Her ex-boyfriend Stuart (Liev Shreiber) is the visionary artsy type. Translation: starving artist; until one day his mad cap invention lands a man named Leopold (Hugh Jackman), the Duke of Albany circa 1876, into present day Manhattan. Back in his time, Leopold was a bit of a narcissistic royal, but in the year 2000 he possesses the grandeur and manners that every woman dreams of in a modern day man. Suddenly this crack in time thins as Kate and her brother Charlie (Breckin Meyer), enjoy the charm and worldly elegance of a man from another century. This story will offer today’s buffoon types a lesson in ‘Gentleman 101’. Leopold’s softness and appreciation makes for a nice movie with a good balancing act that today’s fast paced society wrapped in technology has long since forgotten. Jackman is handsome, royally-believable and a real leading man. It’s “Back To the Future” meets “Pretty Woman” and I promise Meg Ryan will once again regain the role of America’s sweetheart “Sleepless In Seattle” style.
