Bride Flight

Gorgeous scenery highlights this captivating, romantic, well-acted, 2008 film in which three Dutch woman (Karina Smulders, Elise Schaap, and Anna Drijver), who met on a flight to New Zealand in the 1950s to marry their respective suitors (Micha Hulshof, Mattijn Hartemink, and Walter Bart) in Christchurch, end up reminiscing about their lives as an unhappy homemaker (Pleuni Touw), a secret-laden mother (Petra Laseur) with a young son (Mykola Allen), and a Jewish fashion designer (Willeke van Ammelrooy), respectively, when they are reconnected 50 years later at the funeral of a handsome winemaker (Rutger Hauer) who affected all of their lives as a fun-loving, ambitious farmer (Waldemar Torenstra) years before.
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