Pun Salad

Every so often, domestic peace requires that a Chick Flick be shown at Pun Salad Manor; rest assured, this is one of the Chickiest. People with a different Y-chromosome count should discount my opinion totally.

Quoting the back of the DVD.

From Academy Award-winning director Richard Attenborough (Gandhi) comes this sweeping romance starring Shirley MacLaine (Terms of Endearment), Christopher Plummer (A Beautiful Mind), Mischa Barton (TV's The O.C.), and Neve Campbell (The Company). Moving seemlessly through time, this lush epic follows a beautiful 1940's Michigan girl (Barton) secretly married to a WWII pilot who crashes in the hills near Belfast, Ireland. 50 years later his wedding ring resurfaces -- along with the smoldering secrets that have kept the widow (MacLaine), her estranged daughter (Campbell) and devoted friend (Plummer) each from finding true love.

If, on the other hand, your thoughts run more to "Sounds like maybe the cast could have been improved by the inclusion of Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson," then …

As near as I can tell, the movie did negligible box-office business.

It is not totally without guy-merit, however: the folks at "Mr. Skin" named Mischa Barton's efforts here the number one Celebrity Nude Scene of 2008. So at least one other guy watched the movie besides me.

(You can read the entire top-20 list here, although don't ask me how I know that.)