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RELEASED:
2024
DIRECTOR(s):
Janeen Damian
PERSONAL RATING:
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Maddie Kelly has been
secretly in love with Paul Kennedy, the author who she has been editing
the past year and whose plot choices and writing she has improved. She has
told her mother but not her best friends, Emma and Heather. Just before
Maddie is about to tell him about her feelings, Paul asks her to help him
write his next novel. He meets Emma and they quickly develop a mutual
attraction.
Three months later, the three childhood friends are flying with Paul to
his Irish home so he and Emma can get married. Maddie puts her feelings
aside to join Heather as bridesmaid. At luggage reclaim, Maddie argues
with Englishman James Thomas over his bag, as it is identical to hers.
While stuck at the lost luggage office, she insists that the others go on
without her. Maddie must travel by bus to the Kennedy house; on board, she
exchanges banter with James who is a wildlife photographer.
The three friends, Paul, and his brother Kory go to a lake for a picnic.
They decide to take out two rowboats, but Maddie stays behind, feeling
like a fifth wheel. She comes across a wishing bench, and a fairy appears
as she is saying she wishes Paul was marrying her. After a strong wind
blows, Maddie falls back, waking up as the bride-to-be. With her dream
seeming to come true, she starts to doubt things. First, a bike ride Paul
proposes to her does not work as she is unskilled, so Emma takes her
place. Then Maddie is expected to wear an heirloom wedding dress rather
than the one she brought.
Hearing and seeing the fairy, Maddie chases after her and falls into
James's Triumph TR convertible. Because of the fairy, he has no
recollection of their meeting, but Maddie remembers. The hired wedding
photographer has quit, and Paul's mother thanks Maddie for finding James
as a replacement. Having just discovered the sheep-shearing event he was
meant to shoot got cancelled, he accepts.
That night, as Paul gets into bed with Maddie while she is asleep, when he
puts his hand on her, it startles her so she punches him. He is not fully
recovered by morning, so she goes with James alone to seek picturesque
spots for the wedding photos. On their return, a tree goes down from the
storm and blocks their road back, so Maddie and James seek shelter in a
nearby pub. They spend the evening together playing darts, having a pint
and dancing. They get back just in time for the rehearsal, where the
fairy, who is revealed to be Saint Brigid of Ireland, startles Maddie.
Maddie soon realizes that her real soul mate is James, not Paul. On the
morning of the wedding, James can tell she is sad, but she does not admit
it. When Maddie tells the priest about her wish to Saint Brigid, he says
she is mischievous, not giving people what they want, but what they need.
Maddie sees Emma before the ceremony and confirms her feelings for Paul,
then promises to try to fix it. When it is her turn to walk down the
aisle, she enters, wearing regular clothes, and suggests the wedding not
go on as they are not in love. Paul jumps James and they fight, as he saw
them talking earlier on the grounds, blaming him for her change of heart.
James abruptly leaves, and Maddie follows. He feels badly for being partly
to blame for what happened. They kiss, but due to the circumstances, he
drives off. Maddie returns to the wishing bench and asks Saint Brigid to
take back her wish, so time rewinds again. Paul and Emma marry, and after
the reception, Maddie tells him she will not be editing his books without
being credited as co-writer. She then finds James on a bench near the pub
and he now remembers her from the airport and bus, so they are able to
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