Unapologetically, I love Lindsay Lohan and I have no reason to not. That woman has been through a lot and I’m glad she has another opportunity to come back into the American public, which is currently in a way that Adam Sandler is: exclusively on Netflix.
Irish Wish stars Lindsay Lohan as Madeline, a book editor/wish-she-was-novelist in true INFP behavior where she makes others happy and doesn’t consider what it is that she wants. She’s paired with an author, Ryan Kennedy, who has written some books in his life, but didn’t get along with any of his editors. She pairs with him and helps him write his book which becomes a best-seller and only gets a small editing credit (now we know why he didn’t get along with other editors!). She can overlook the slight, as she is in love with him and wants to marry him. At the launch of the book that she co-wrote (uncredited), her friend, Emma, meets Ryan and falls in love first. We cut to a year later where Madeline has helped write the next book and is now in Ireland for Ryan and Emma’s wedding.
In picturesque Ireland, she makes a wish that she was marrying Ryan instead and that wish is granted as she wakes up in Ryan’s family’s estate now as the bride-to-be, while Emma remains obviously attracted to Ryan and vice-versa. Madeline has fallen for a photographer she met earlier in the non-wish version of her life that arrived at the airport with her, who becomes contracted to photograph the wedding. They spend time together, and she realizes she doesn’t love Ryan, she loves the photographer [name forgotten], and we get a big revelation at the altar and all the pairs that were expected to happen, happen, the end.
Sometimes in life, we don’t know what we want for a long time. People think, “it’s too late to stand up for what I want,” but Lindsay Lohan realizes the importance of making time for herself while on this luxurious vacation abroad. She turns down what she thought she wanted (the marriage) and the conveniences in her current life (“editing” Ryan Kennedy’s books) to take what she does want: a guy who likes her and more importantly, sets out to write a book of her own. The story is one of the least offensive things possible, but is worthwhile if your takeaway becomes “am I the person I want to be and with whom I want to be with?”
3/10