By Sarah Sluis
Talented actor Amy Adams has wowed audiences with her poofy, comedic ebullience. Enchanted and the 
hard-to-pull-off screwball comedy Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day both capitalized on her great comedic timing, and her role in Junebug garnered an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress. The actress recently announced another indie role, Daughter of the Queen of Sheba, based on a memoir by NPR correspondent Jacki Lyden. She will play a woman who adopts her bipolar mother's delusions as a coping mechanism (interesting application of her knack for fantasy), so I took a quick look at some of her other upcoming projects.
The actress' riskiest and most prestigious role will be in this winter's Doubt, in which she plays a supporting role as a nun to heavyweights Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman. Adams will also star alongside Emily Blunt in dark indie comedy Sunshine Cleaning, about a death cleanup service, which will release this March. Also on her roster (next to a stint as Amelia Earhart in Night at the Museum 2, and Julie in Julie and Julia, a literary adaptation directed by Nora Ephron) is Leap Year. It's the weakest project of the bunch, with writers Harry Elfont and Deborah Kaplan's greatest screenwriting accomplishments to date Can't Hardly Wait and A Very Brady Sequel, so I feel compelled to pick at it a bit. The romantic comedy is about a woman whose attempt to propose to her boyfriend in Ireland on
February 29th is derailed by the weather. An innkeeper (and, I assume, the man she will actually propose to) tries to help her succeed despite the weather. The premise is a riff on Powell and
Pressburger's classic 1945 film I Know Where I'm Going!--hopefully the homage will be noted as the project moves farther along.
One romantic comedy Amy Adams will not be starring in is Confessions of a Shopaholic, which stars Isla Fisher (picture in this paragraph), the look-alike redhead best known for her role in Wedding Crashers. As someone notoriously bad
at telling people apart, I thought I was the only one who had trouble keeping the two actresses straight (I spent much of Charlie Wilson's War trying to figure out if I was watching the girl from Wedding Crashers or the girl from Enchanted), but IMDB's message boards are filled with people noting their confusion--often only resolved, or noticed, when the credit sequence rolled. Exacerbating the problem, both actors have pursued similar career paths, starring in romantic comedies and kid- and teen-oriented pictures. Isla Fisher has taken an unspecified break from acting after having a baby (with Borat's Sacha Baron Cohen), and her upcoming projects stick to the realm of comedy, while Amy Adams has added drama, indie, and blockbuster to her list, differentiating her work from Fisher's.
One thing I would like to see: A romantic comedy starring Amy Adams and Isla Fisher as look-a-likes with some confusion/competition from a beau or two.
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