"Reckless: The Sequel" takes place one year after "Reckless." Anna and Owen are living together, and before the film starts, Owen has proposed. When the movie begins, Anna is getting ready for work. As she's leaving, she says, "Yes." Owen is thrilled.
Richard isn't supposed to know but he finds out and tries to stop them. One way he does that is to hire Owen's ex-fiancée to work in the hospital. She and Owen had broken up some months before he even met Anna.
The movie manages to still be a cliffhanger. From one minute to the next, you don't know whether or not Anna and Owen are going to get married, what with parental and sibling interference, not to mention Richard squeezing himself into the situation.
The beautiful Francesca Annis is excellent as Anna, and one can really understand why both Richard and Owen are so desperate to be with her. You can easily see a younger man finding her irresistible.
Sometimes I find older woman-younger man casting not very good (for instance, Linda Grey and Christopher Atkins in Dallas). Whomever does the casting chooses someone too boyish for an older woman. Well, Robson Green is perfect -- what woman of any age wouldn't want him? He's delightful in this -- passionate, intense, sexy, and sincere. The two make a great couple. You have to love Michael Kitchen as the manipulative ex. He's hateful, which means he's doing his job well.
The rest of the cast shines: Geoffrey Palmer, Pauline Yates playing Richard's parents, David Bradley, Owen's father, Conor Mullen as John McGinley, and the versatile Julian Rhind-Tutt, who is hilarious as the womanizing (or wishes he could be) Danny.
Very sweet film and a nice wrap-up to the whole Reckless miniseries.
