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Wedding Date, The
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Generally unfavorable reviews
Based on 34 critic reviews
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Based on 18 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Comedy | Romance
Written by: Dana Fox
Directed by: Clare Kilner
Release Date:
Theatrical: February 4, 2005
DVD: August 16, 2005
Running Time: 90 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: PG-13 for sexual content including dialogue
Starring Debra Messing, Dermot Mulroney, Amy Adams, Jack Davenport, Sarah Parish, Jeremy Sheffield, Peter Egan, and Holland Taylor
In this romantic comedy, Debra Messing plays Kat, a never-married New Yorker, who is invited to her younger sister's wedding in London. What should be a joyous occasion bodes disaster for Kat, however, when she discovers that the best man will be none other than her ex-fiancé. In a desperate attempt to face the ordeal with dignity, Kat hires Nick (Mulroney), a charming and handsome professional male escort, to pose as her new boyfriend and escort her to the wedding. (Universal)
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What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
The curious case of two appealing performances surviving a bombardment of schlock.
Read Full Review >The Hollywood Reporter Sheri Linden
Familiar but never overly broad, this well-cast, crowd-pleasing comedy benefits from a low-key emphasis on character over high jinks.
Read Full Review >Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sean Axmaker
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.
Read Full Review >Philadelphia Inquirer Carrie Rickey
A vaguely creepy and mildly diverting rom-com.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Nathan Rabin
The lucky Mulroney gets to play the kind of sensitive hunk that women want and men want to be, but he's the only one who can be heard over the tired wheezing of the romantic-comedy machinery.
Read Full Review >Dallas Observer Luke Y. Thompson
It seems like a slam-dunk pitch -- "Pretty Woman" with the genders reversed -- but there's one major problem: The whole hooker-fantasy bit is much more of a guy thing.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
A fairly mediocre film, not nearly as funny as it should be, nor as heartfelt. On the plus side, it's only 85 minutes long and isn't boring. On the downside, it has an intrusive pop soundtrack and a screenplay full of fake conflicts.
Read Full Review >ReelViews James Berardinelli
This is a charmless, lifeless affair that had me leaving the theater in a mood more appropriate to a funeral than a wedding.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum
So many body parts from other engineered romantic comedies have been crudely harvested and stitched together in the making of this weird robotic lark that "Maid of Honor of Frankenstein" might be more useful a nickname.
Read Full Review >Variety Justin Chang
An intriguingly racy premise -- plays out to listless, unsatisfying effect.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Anita Gates
Struggles from beginning to end to capture the charm and ebullience of "Four Weddings." The new movie's effort is mostly unsuccessful, but there are bright spots.
Read Full Review >Salon.com Stephanie Zacharek
Dermot Mulroney is the movie's only genuinely romantic lead. And he's so good that he nearly carries The Wedding Date single-handedly.
Read Full Review >Empire Caroline Westbrook
This is a leaden mess that offers only brief moments of respite.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Jennifer Snow
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.
Read Full Review >Baltimore Sun Chris Kaltenbach
There's nothing about The Wedding Date that isn't forced or labored; there's only a stubborn determination to embrace every cliche and make sure the stars photograph well.
Read Full Review >Miami Herald Connie Ogle
It's an hour longer than the average sitcom, but The Wedding Date isn't much different from what you see crammed into any TV comedy lineup, minus the laugh track.
Read Full Review >Premiere Peter Debruge
A relatively harmless (and thankfully, not entirely laughless) trifle.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman
Oddly enough, though, only the finale is predictable in a movie that appears to have been edited in an early-model blender. Not a single scene connects smoothly with the next.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington
Wedding Date is neither good art, good entertainment nor even good trash.
Read Full Review >Portland Oregonian M. E. Russell
A movie of utter inconsequence -- a cinematic Listerine Strip that evaporates from the brain before you even get your popcorn tub to the trash.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Desson Thomson
This movie is all pretty faces and six-pack abs, but no characters. All surface and no soul. Come to think of it, the surface isn't so darned hot either.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Angel Cohn
It might be best to discreetly misplace your invitation to these strained festivities.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Carina Chocano
Winds up an oddly depressing, lost, little movie that eventually caves in on itself.
Read Full Review >The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Rick Groen
Imagine, if you dare, the outtakes from all those merely bad romantic comedies. Now further imagine that these discarded bits, the stuff that failed to make even the failures, found their way out of the waste bin and into a splicing machine and onto a projector. Do that and you're inching toward a full appreciation of this particular barrel, and the bottom it so brazenly scrapes.
Read Full Review >Charlotte Observer Lawrence Toppman
Messing may simply be one of those actresses who's the right size for TV and the wrong size for the big screen.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Wesley Morris
Messing should know this is precisely the kind of movie Grace would ridicule Will for dragging her to see.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov
Inexplicable Fantasy Romances for the Harried Modern Gal 101 is a more fitting title for this shameless mediocrity.
Read Full Review >New York Post Lou Lumenick
A witless, stale and half-hearted rehash of cliches borrowed from the likes of "The Wedding Planner," "The Wedding Singer" and "Four Weddings and a Funeral," this pathetic, alleged comedy certainly wasn't improved by clueless direction by Clare Kilner.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 5.2 (out of 10) based on 18 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
S G gave it a6:
Charming, light romantic comedy.
Saebjorn V. gave it a2:
Waste of everything.
Bob S. gave it a0:
The movie was utter trash and I couldn't stand it. Left after 45 mins. Only funny bit was when father poured bucket water over himself!
Lendy D. gave it a10:
The movie was great-Messing and Mulroney complemented each other very well and the cousin was a trip.
Mira K gave it a0:
Horrible, what more can one say? The actors seem to be trying NOT to act, while the script doesn't have one funny moment in it. It's a waste that people actually waste money making something like this.
Casey B. gave it a10:
This movie was awesome i loved it!! whoever didnt like was wrong.
t jones gave it a10:
I loved the movie, one liners were very funny. I loved the English landscape, and I loved the soundtrack, tried to buy it but it wasn't available.
