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The Wedding Date (2005)

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Reviews Counted:30

Fresh:3

Rotten:27

Average Rating:3.9/10

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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02/19/05
Robert Denerstein
Robert Denerstein
Denver Rocky Mountain News
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Nothing says true love like a movie about a desperate, neurotic woman who hires a male whore to take her to her sister’s wedding so she can make the ex-fiance jealous. I wonder if they have a Vermont Teddy Bear for that?

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02/14/05
Richard Roeper
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This is a charmless, lifeless affair that had me leaving the theater in a mood more appropriate to a funeral than a wedding.

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02/10/05
James Berardinelli
James Berardinelli
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Clare Kilner's cast frolics in the countryside in an appropriately British-romantic-comedy fashion, and at times the characters trade silly snaps, but Dana Fox's screenplay is structurally shaky.

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02/08/05
Jennifer Snow
Jennifer Snow
Village Voice
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Mulroney is a stealth actor: Whenever you see him in a picture, you're not just reminded of how good he almost always is -- you have the sense of discovering it for the first time.

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02/04/05
Stephanie Zacharek
Stephanie Zacharek
Salon.com
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Admittedly, no part of the year is immune to bad romantic comedies. But what distinguishes The Wedding Date, what qualifies it so impeccably for turkey season, goes way beyond generic foulness.

Full Review Source: Globe and Mail | comment Comment
02/04/05
Rick Groen
Rick Groen
Globe and Mail
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Not a single scene connects smoothly with the next, characters make head-scratching choices that come out of nowhere and logic consistently proves itself an enemy to be avoided at all costs.

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02/04/05
Elizabeth Weitzman
Elizabeth Weitzman
New York Daily News
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The film has an energetic grace, directed with fluid efficiency by Clare Kilner.

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02/04/05
Sheri Linden
Sheri Linden
Hollywood Reporter
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Why Kat must be so emotionally clueless or her sister so selfish is a mystery that invites an essay about what women think of each other these days.

Full Review Source: Denver Post | comment Comment
02/04/05
Lisa Kennedy
Lisa Kennedy
Denver Post
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This particular wedding-cake walk does feature the excellent comedic timing of Debra Messing and the charm and sex appeal of Dermot Mulroney, which will likely combine to make this film a hit with the date crowd.

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02/04/05
Paul Clinton (CNN.com)
Paul Clinton (CNN.com)
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Even if we could buy the contrived setup (right: Debra Messing needs to buy a date), there is no thought to fleshing out the characters.

Full Review Source: Detroit Free Press | comment Comment
02/04/05
John Monaghan
John Monaghan
Detroit Free Press
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Messing should know this is precisely the kind of movie Grace would ridicule Will for dragging her to see.

Full Review Source: Boston Globe | comment Comment
02/04/05
Wesley Morris
Wesley Morris
Boston Globe
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Don't bother asking how an Ivy League guy would end up hooking. Such a query could only lead to some dark answers, answers that the filmmakers have no interest in dealing with but which would make for a much more interesting movie.

Full Review Source: Washington Post | comment Comment
02/04/05
Teresa Wiltz
Teresa Wiltz
Washington Post
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A fairly mediocre film, not nearly as funny as it should be, nor as heartfelt.

Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | comment Comment
02/04/05
Mick LaSalle
Mick LaSalle
San Francisco Chronicle
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From the look of it, poor Debra Messing's first starring vehicle was an unmitigated disaster even before the cameras started rolling.

Full Review Source: New York Post | comment Comment
02/04/05
Lou Lumenick
Lou Lumenick
New York Post
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There is not a single memorable joke or line of dialogue in it, something that even the dumbest of comedies usually delivers.

Full Review Source: Toronto Star | comment Comment
02/04/05
Peter Howell
Peter Howell
Toronto Star
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This is a movie that wants to break out and be tepid. It would like to dare to be tepid. But it just can't find the energy.

Full Review Source: Detroit News | comment Comment
02/04/05
Tom Long
Tom Long
Detroit News
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The Wedding Date presents the curious case of two appealing performances surviving a bombardment of schlock.

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02/04/05
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