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The Wedding Date (2005)

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Reviews Counted:135

Fresh:14

Rotten:121

Average Rating:3.8/10

Consensus: Critics are leaving The Wedding Date at the alter, calling it shopworn, bland, and lightweight.

Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating] for sexual content including dialogue

Runtime: 90 mins

Genre: Comedies

Theatrical Release:Feb 4, 2005 Wide

Synopsis: Kat Ellis's (Debra Messing) worst nightmare is about to come true. Not only is her younger, half-sister, Amy (Amy Adams), getting married before her, but to add insult to injury, the groom's (Jack... Kat Ellis's (Debra Messing) worst nightmare is about to come true. Not only is her younger, half-sister, Amy (Amy Adams), getting married before her, but to add insult to injury, the groom's (Jack Davenport) best man is Kat's ex-fiancée, Jeffrey (Jeremy Sheffield). Two years after being dumped, Kat is a single New Yorker and can't bear to attend the festivities at her parent's London home alone, so she does the next best thing: she hires an escort to play her boyfriend. Her rented date, Nick (Dermot Mulroney), fits the bill perfectly. He's handsome, intelligent, well spoken, intuitive, and a perfect gentleman--a virtual bargain at $6,000. The plan? Make Kat's ex sorry that he ever let her go. But the plan takes a turn when Kat finds herself attracted to Nick, and the feeling seems to be mutual. But will their business arrangement stand in the way of a relationship? And just what is it that Kat's ex has been dying to tell her? Messing is endearing as Kat, who seems to be simultaneously bewildered and bemused by her situation. Mulroney, meanwhile, is at his most charming as Nick. Clare Kilner (HOW TO DEAL) directs this romantic comedy set in London and the English countryside, which also features Holland Taylor as Kat's slightly overbearing mother and Peter Egan as her loving stepfather. Sarah Parish is a hoot as the sisters' bawdy British cousin. [More]

Starring: Debra Messing, Dermot Mulroney, Jack Davenport, Holland Taylor

Starring: Debra Messing, Dermot Mulroney, Jack Davenport, Holland Taylor, Jeremy Sheffield, Sarah Jannett Parish

Director: Clare Kilner

Director: Clare Kilner
Screenwriter: Dana Fox
Producer: Paul Brooks, Michelle Chyzdik, Nathalie Marciano
Studio: Universal Pictures

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Call this Will & Dis-Grace.

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06/24/06
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It might be best to discreetly misplace your invitation to these strained festivities.

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02/04/05
Angel Cohn
Angel Cohn
TV Guide's Movie Guide

Even some much needed logic wouldn’t have been able to save this awful mess.

Full Review Source: Sympatico.ca | comment Comment
02/17/05
Angela Baldassarre
Angela Baldassarre
Sympatico.ca

Debra Messing and Dermot Mulroney star in a romantic comedy that struggles to capture the charm and ebullience of Four Weddings and a Funeral.

Full Review Source: New York Times | comment Comment
02/03/05
Anita Gates
Anita Gates
New York Times

The film is made by women, which just goes to show female moviemakers are equally capable of insulting female audiences.

Full Review Source: Las Vegas Mercury | comment Comment
02/03/05
Anthony Del Valle
Anthony Del Valle
Las Vegas Mercury

Shouldn’t romantic comedies be a little more romatic? Or maybe at least likable?

Full Review Source: Tooele Transcript-Bulletin (Utah) | comment Comment
02/08/05
Audrey Rock-Richardson
Audrey Rock-Richardson
Tooele Transcript-Bulletin (Utah)

Dermot Mulroney, portraying a very expensive male escort, provides enough eye candy and mystery to save this movie from being a total disaster.

Full Review Source: ReelTalk Movie Reviews | comment Comment
02/05/05
Betty Jo Tucker
Betty Jo Tucker
ReelTalk Movie Reviews

As far as Big Day experiences go, a drunken speech from a distant relative would be far more entertaining -- and funnier -- than The Wedding Date.

Full Review Source: Arizona Republic | comment Comment
02/03/05
Bill Muller
Bill Muller
Arizona Republic
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The movie is so elementary, so simplistic, offering stock situations and cardboard characters who ... remain unchanged that it plays like an extended version of a sitcom ...

Full Review Source: Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN) | comment Comment
02/04/05
Bob Bloom
Bob Bloom
Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)

The movie is being sold as a buoyant confection, I think mainly because its distributor doesn’t quite know what to make of its neither-fish-nor-fowl film.

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02/04/05
Brent Simon
Brent Simon
Now Playing Magazine

Surprisingly adapted from a novel, Date is saccharine, uninspired entertainment, eventually collapsing into a flat-out mess.

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02/03/05
Brian Orndorf
Brian Orndorf
FilmJerk.com

You know how some movies just ring so utterly true that they defy your expectations and take a predictable genre to new and unexpected places? This is not one of those movies.

Full Review Source: Apollo Guide | comment Comment
01/31/05
Brian Webster
Brian Webster
Apollo Guide

Romantic comedy is a tough genre to pull off in this crass and explicit day and age. This movie gives it a perky try, but its formula, unlike its hired-for-the-occasion leading man, just isn't the right package.

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02/04/05
Bridget Byrne
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