Trite, but, Dermot Mulroney, I took an exit poll. You are definitely worth the extra three hundred.
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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Reviews for The Wedding Date
Flashes of engagement mired in starry-eyed pabulum with a bubble-gum score to match.
Kilner's light touch keeps the romantic pair dancing around their romance without tripping, but as the film reaches the inevitable happy ending, the steps look all too familiar.
Even some much needed logic wouldn’t have been able to save this awful mess.
This is a charmless, lifeless affair that had me leaving the theater in a mood more appropriate to a funeral than a wedding.
What good is a uniquely photographed dance scene if the characters dancing together are barely two-dimensional?
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 ...
My Best Friend's Picture Perfect Wedding, er, I mean The Wedding Date...is surprisingly engaging--mostly...
You wonder if the filmmakers intended you to utterly despise everyone in the story. Probably not.
With La Debra finally in the picture, all I can say is, "give us more Messing." Our first date might have been a dud but I'm willing to go out again.
To say that the script is bottom-of-the-barrel would be too kind; this one was already decomposing under a mountain of mulch before Debra Messing unwisely fished it out.
Laudably manages to avoid the inherent sordidness of Pretty Woman and the underlying sadness of My Best Friend's Wedding.
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.
It's a blessing that The Wedding Date doesn't try too hard, but it's a curse that it doesn't try hard enough.
Aimed squarely at the single-and-over-35 demographic, The Wedding Date is a guilty pleasure that is perfect for a girls' night out.
Focus-grouped to such a precise dot that everyone in the audience will not only be able to name each brand of luggage the characters use, but will do so with joy and pride.
How does Kat feel about falling in love with a high-priced escort? What prompts Nick's lightning-bolt conversion to unpaid monogamy? What kind of work can a former comp lit major expect to find in the world? These and other questions are left unanswered.
Clever lines, chic sets, appropriately incorporated cloying songs, and a sympathetic Debra Messing keep the film enjoyable.
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