Synopsis
When her scientist ex-boyfriend discovers a portal to travel through time -- and brings back a 19th-century nobleman named Leopold to prove it -- a skeptical Kate reluctantly takes responsibility for showing Leopold the 21st century. The more time Kate spends with Leopold, the harder she falls for him. But if he doesn't return to his own time, his absence will forever alter history.
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Cast
- Meg RyanKate McKay
- Hugh JackmanLeopold 'Leo' Mountbatten, Duke of Albany
- Liev SchreiberStuart Besser
- Breckin MeyerCharlie McKay
- Natasha LyonneDarci
- Bradley WhitfordJ.J. Camden
- Paxton WhiteheadUncle Millard
- Spalding GrayDr. Geisler
- Josh StambergColleague Bob
- Matthew SussmanAd Executive Phil
Recommendations
- 75
Philadelphia Inquirer
For the first half-hour I, too, demurred. And then the irresistible force that is Hugh Jackman -- or was it his swoony Leopold? -- swept me off my seat and into the movie. - 50
The New York Times
Has only the most tangential relation to reality, and therein lies its slender charm. - 50
Los Angeles Times
A flawed time-travel love story, benefits from Meg Ryan's reliable perkiness and establishes Australia's Hugh Jackman as a potent romantic leading man. These and other pluses, however, cannot overcome the film's inability to come alive for a full hour and 20 minutes. - 50
Film Threat
There's no question that Meg Ryan is the queen of romantic comedies. Yet for every piece of frothy fluff that works -- there comes a couple where you just want to say, "Enough already." Kate & Leopold is one such movie. - 42
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Progressively sabotaged by poor technical quality, terrible plotting, a glaring lack of directorial skill and finesse, scenes that have no credibility and/or motivation and an astounding sloppiness to its historical detail. - 42
Portland Oregonian
America's favorite romantic comedian is miscast in Kate & Leopold -- a disappointment with the warm and charming Jackman around. - 40
New Times (L.A.)
Mangold gets stuck in the gooey sweet spots of his tale a little more often than he breaks loose with a bracing jolt of perversity. - 40
Salon
The problem with Kate & Leopold is that although this is supposed to be a romantic comedy, the best scenes are the ones in which there's no Ryan.
