WHEN SPARKS FLY

Canada, 2014, 86 minutes, Colour.
Meghan Markle, Kristina Pesic, Christopher Jacot, Lochlyn Munro.
Directed by Gary Yates.

The main reason for watching this film is to see Meghan Markle in a star role, looking back at her career in the light of her marriage to Prince Harry and becoming part of the British Royal family.

On its release, it was a slight, pleasant romantic comedy, not unlike many others on popular television. An ambitious young woman, getting a position as a journalist in Chicago, leaving behind the young man who was about to propose to her. She keeps in touch with a school friend (an impossibly enthusiastic and gushing Kristina Pesic). She is away from home, where her parents make fireworks and do the displays for July 4. Her friend is to be married – to her one-time boyfriend. She returns home to write an article about her parents and fireworks, to be a bridesmaid, encountering her boyfriend once again – and, we all know what happens… Happy ending all round.

Meghan Markle is a bright and attractive screen presence.