‘Irish Wish’ review: Lindsay Lohan’s latest is a St. Patrick’s Day massacre
nypost.comLindsay Lohan’s latest romantic comedy for Netflix, is a four-leaf clunker.Running time: 93 minutes. Rated: G. On Netflix.While the film is a modicum better than the actress’ “Falling For Christmas” last year — such a punishing world, this is — the improvement is also a knock against it.
This high-fructose-corn-syrup movie remains air-headed, that’s for sure, but it’s far less campy and therefore a drag. Because the rom-com genre loves nothing move than a stressed-out New York woman in publishing, Lohan plays a Manhattan book editor named Maddie.
The first time we meet the perpetually frazzled professional, she slams her scarf in a taxi cab door and it drives away. Maddie is madly in love with her author Paul Kennedy (Alexander Vlahos), a full-of-himself mediocrity who she extensively rewrites while he takes all the credit.
But, at the launch of his new novel “Two Irish Hearts,” Paul instead gets the hots for Maddie’s friend Emma (Elizabeth Tan) and soon proposes to her.
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