Save The Date (2012)
Average Rating: 5.4/10
Reviews Counted: 27
Fresh: 12 | Rotten: 15
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Average Rating: 4.9/10
Critic Reviews: 11
Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 10
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After an ill-timed and very public marriage proposal, fiercely independent Sarah breaks up with her overeager boyfriend Kevin. Sarah turns to her sister Beth for support, but Beth is too busy obsessing over the details of her own wedding to Kevin's band mate, Andrew. When Sarah suddenly finds herself caught up in an intense rebound romance with the adorable Jonathan, she is forced to examine her own fears of commitment and vulnerability. With honesty, heart, and humor, all five struggle with the
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Cast
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Alison Brie
Beth -
Lizzy Caplan
Sarah -
Martin Starr
Andrew -
Geoffrey Arend
Kevin -
Mark Webber
Jonathan -
Grant Harvey
Trevor -
Kristin Slaysman
Michelle -
Melonie Diaz
Isabelle -
Robin Riker
Aunt Mary -
Timothy Busfield
Benjie
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Lizzy Caplan and Alison Brie lend the lightweight rom-com "Save the Date" more than its fair share of watchability. But the film is never truly interesting.
Top CriticWhile Caplan works well in theory as an antiromantic-comedy heroine, director and co-screenwriter Michael Mohan just doesn't give her enough to do.
[It] may sound like Sitcomland, but Mr. Mohan's sensibility - visually, comically, in terms of character - is more naturalistic, more Sundance. It's just not particularly sharp.
A merely adequate addition to the raft of romantic comedies for those pushing 30 without adult lives to call their own.
Save the Date is romantic comedy with aspirations to do something new. That's admirable but it isn't enough.
An easygoing romance you might enjoy, despite the fact that you never need to see it again.
It takes a lot for straight-to-video, wedding-themed romantic comedy to turn my head, but Save the Date managed the trick by snagging the ridiculously talented and underused Alison Brie (Community) and Lizzy Caplan (Party Down) as its leads.
SAVE THE DATE is a mature, refreshingly honest portrait of relationships - between lovers, family members and friends - that never fails to deliver humor and insight.
Slumbers through routine conflicts, often in the dullest manner imaginable, refusing the lure of a snappy pace to wallow in poor communication contests that grow intolerable.
There's a finely-tuned sense of how difficult it can be to live life on your own terms, but the film so resolutely adheres to indie conventions it's hard to take seriously.
With irrepressibly appealing performers playing flawed characters, he strikes a chord that resonates, even if some of the notes are a bit familiar.
Racy romcom has realistic characters but needs more plot.
Manages its modest pleasures because of its likable cast.
A pleasing sophomore feature from Sundance alum Michael Mohan
Save the Date ... is appealingly ambivalent about whether growing up is really such a great idea.
Save The Date's achievements are modest-it could be funnier and more affecting, and it ends with a shrug-but the film is wise about sibling relationships, the uncertainty of youth, and smaller matters ...
What's worst about the film is how it appropriates its main character's noncommittal selfishness to support its own quaint, anti-establishment themes.
'Save the Date' traffics in the most banal situations and whiny characters imaginable.
Audience Reviews for Save The Date
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- Kevin: Are you happier? If you are... I'll let you go.
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- Kevin: You threw it all away.
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Some times you can tell a lot by how a movie starts. In the case of the alternately touching and funny "Save the Date," it signals a certain intelligence with its bookstore entrance and does not disappoint throughout with its unpredictable rhythm that is kind of like real life with a neat use of camerawork that especially extends to close-ups. That extends to how perceptive it is about family, friends and relationships, centered around Sarah who is just trying to figure out what she wants out of life while resisting pressure which I can certainly sympathize with.