Forces of Nature

directed by Bronwen Hughes
Category: "Comedy"
Year of Release:1999
Date Added:04/11/2008
Date Watched:02/17/2003
Description:Ben Homes (Ben Affleck) is trying to get to Atlanta from Georgia for his wedding to Bridget (Maura Tierney) , but he's having a hard time. His plane slides off the runway and crashes. He escapes while carrying a fellow passenger named Sarah (Sandra Bullock) to safety. Their fates become linked. She is also trying to get to Georgia. The try various ways to get there — hitching a ride with a stranger, traveling with a group of old people on a bus, catching a train. But every time something goes wrong and they end up stranded together. They fall for each other, even after Sarah tells Ben about her two marriages and her son. The finally arrive in Atlanta just in time for the wedding, which is scheduled just as a hurricane hits. Ben intends to tell Bridget he can't go through with it, but when he sees her, he realizes he does love her and couldn't possibly leave her. They go off to Hawaii and get married. Sarah looks up the son she left and reconciles with him.
My Rating:7

Reviews for Forces of Nature

Review - Forces of Nature

A pretty typical rom-com with likeable-enough characters, but with a surprising twist at the end. The guy actually marries the girl he was engaged to marry at the beginning and realizes the girl he only knew for two days was ... a girl he only knew for two days.
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