Kate & Leopold

...here is another ingenious plot that teases us with the possibility that true love will fail, while winking that, of course, it will prevail.

Equal doses yearning, nose-scrunching, and prat-falling, Kate is the kind of character that Meg Ryan does well and often, and Jackman manages the Victorian “repartee” with appropriate insouciance.

...once it settles down, it becomes a star-making vehicle for Jackman, and a supremely polished example of the sort of swoony love story cherished by women who secretly hope that some day their prince will come.