This is one of those movies that surprises you – or at least it did me. Quite frankly, I don’t even remember why it was that we watched it. Perhaps it was a suggestion from a friend. But whatever the reason, we decided that we’d sit down with the family and see if it was any good. In the end, we were glad that we did.
It definitely starts off a bit slowly – in the not-to-distant future, Noah (Chris O’Neil) and his sister Emma (Rhiannon Leigh Wryn) going through some toys such as stuffed animals, trying to find something to do with them. It’s really a scene that most parents today might see at any point in any life. But then something a bit unusual happens.
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Romance on November 24th, 2006 by Chad Everett
Kate (Meg Ryan) is afraid to fly for the first time, and as a result, her soon-to-be-husband Charlie (Timothy Hutton) heads off to Paris without her.
On his first night there, he calls her at exactly six o’clock. On the next night, it’s a few minutes after six. On some indeterminate night (perhaps the third, perhaps several nights later), it’s nearly 6:45, and he has some bad news. He’s fallen in love with a French woman, who he will be marrying, and he won’t be coming home. This can’t be good.
Kate decides that rather than sitting around and moping, she is going to do something about this. She packs up her bags and gets on a plane and heads to Paris. There’s just one problem. She’s still afraid to fly. It gets worse when a rude, smelly Frenchman named Luc (played by the typically enjoyable Kevin Kline) sits next to her on the plane.
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