If Bride Flight wasn’t set in an unfamiliar region, an interesting time period and a foreign film, I wonder if I would see it as the Lifetime meets Nicholas Sparks adaptation that it may be. There are several reasons that I am willing to say that it isn’t: thoroughly enjoyable and occasionally you will audibly gasp at not only the beautiful photography of New Zealand, but plot points when the three women land in New Zealand. All the actresses were amazing, and a couple were downright gorgeous, Anna Drijver & Willeke van Ammelrooy. While it may not be a Hallmark meets Lifetime film, it may be one of those 80s films starring an all woman cast that tackles women confronting societal gender barriers. My only quibble with the movie: we’re supposed to believe that all 3 women are attracted to or at least very close with one man, who is played by a young Waldemar Torenstra and an elderly Rutger Hauer. Waldemar is affable and fit, but has none of the dark, dangerous sexy energy of a young (or even old) Rutger Hauer & we don’t really get a sense of the character as a person except that he likes everyone and treats them well: Maori, women, children. The filmmakers should have cast a different person to play the older character or vice versa and spent as much time fleshing out his character as they did with the three female characters.