Happy Ever Afters: Eye For Film review

Eye For Film posted a great review, awarding 3 and a half stars. Read the full review on the website.

Hot on the heels of Leap Year and not so very long after P.S. I Love You, two American attempts to do romance Irish style, comes Happy Ever Afters, a romcom that's Irish through and through and that might give fans of Hollywood's output a shock or two. It might not always hit the mark, with its complicated plotline sometimes descending into hopeless farce, but there's real heart here and characters who are easy to feel for...

...the two leads evincing the kind of charm Hollywood can only dream of, despite the fact they spend half the time shouting at each other. Happy Ever Afters is the first proper feature from writer-director Stephen Burke and it does show, but it also shows a lot of promise. Rather than simply soaking itself in the conventions of romance, it has a lot of pithy comments to make about the difference between social fantasies and lived realities, and it's altogether more moving as a result.