Kate & Leopold

Meg Ryan and Hugh Jackman are charming in this time-tripping romantic comedy. Jackman plays the Duke of Albany, who is whisked through a portal in time from 1876 to modern-day Manhattan, where a romance begins when he woos a jaded executive (Ryan). Directed by James Mangold (“Girl, Interrupted”). Liev Schreiber, Breckin Meyer, Natasha Lyonne., The Duke of Albany is whisked through a portal in time from 1876 to modern-day New York, where he woos a jaded executive., Fantastical romantic comedy about a modern female executive whose career has left little time for romance, until her ex-boyfriend opens up a time portal which transports a charming 19th-century bachelor to modern-day America. A mutual attraction soon develops between the suave European aristocrat and the liberated career woman., Filmmaker James Mangold follows his Oscar-winning drama Girl, Interrupted (1999) with this whimsical fantasy. Meg Ryan stars as Kate McKay, a modern female executive in New York City whose drive to succeed in the cutthroat corporate world has left little time for romance. When her genius ex-boyfriend Stuart (Liev Schreiber) opens a portal in time, the experiment transports Leopold (Hugh Jackman) from 1867 to the present day. A charming bachelor and the royal “Third Duke of Albany” in his own time, Leopold is fascinated by the 21st century. As the courtly Leopold and the decidedly liberated Kate tour the town, a mutual attraction develops into something deeper, a relationship that’s threatened by Leopold’s temporary chronological status. Kate & Leopold (2001) was originally developed by co-screenwriter Steve Rogers as a project for star/producer Sandra Bullock, who had a hit with his film Hope Floats (1998)., Fantastical romantic comedy about a modern female executive whose career has left little time for romance, until her ex-boyfriend opens up a time portal which transports a charming nineteenth-century bachelor to 21st-century America. A mutual attraction soon develops between the suave European aristocrat and the liberated career woman., Fantastical romantic comedy about a modern female executive whose career has left little time for romance, until her ex-boyfriend opens up a time portal which transports a charming 19th-century bachelor to modern-day America. A mutual attraction soon develops between the suave European aristocrat and the liberated career woman. (Including Access), X-Men star Hugh Jackman is entranced by modern girl Meg Ryan in this charming, fantastical romantic comedy. A female executive has left little time in her busy life for romance, until her ex-boyfriend opens up a time portal which transports a charming nineteenth-century bachelor to 21st-century America. A mutual attraction soon develops between the suave European aristocrat and the liberated career woman., Kate McKay is the New York ad exec who can’t believe Leopold Mountbatten is really an English duke from the 19th century. Sure, he sounds funny and his courtly ways go down a storm with the ladies, but it’s all an act. Isn’t it? Amiable romantic comedy.