Well, I must admit when I was forced to sit down and watch this movie with my wife I was suffering some trepidation.  After all this was a chick-flick and I doubted I would be able to stay awake, or keep my lunch down for all the treacle.  I was so very wrong!  This movie has a great cast with delightful characters.  Their love for one another is self-evident and that love will warm the proverbial cockles of the viewer's heart.  Yes!  There are moments of great sadness but they are carried off well, and avoid the saccharine sweetness of so many of this genre.