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MPAA RATING: PG-13 for language and some sexual humor
Starring Jennifer Lopez, Matthew McConaughey, Justin Chambers, Bridgette Wilson, Judy Greer, and Alex Rocco
Jennifer Lopez plays San Francisco's most successful supplier of romance and glamour. She knows all the tricks. She knows all the rules. But then she breaks the most important rule of all: she falls in love with the groom, Matthew McConaughey. (Sony Pictures Entertainment)
| GENRE(S): | Romance |
| WRITTEN BY: |
Pamela Falk
Michael Ellis |
| DIRECTED BY: | Adam Shankman |
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: July 3, 2001 Video: July 3, 2001 Theatrical: January 26, 2001 |
| RUNNING TIME: | 100 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: | USA |
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The average user rating for this movie is 6.8 (out of 10) based on 28 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Chad S. gave it a3:
No feel-good film here. "The Wedding Planner" is refreshingly dour in tone. It avoids the cliche of the two parties not getting their story straight when a friend or relative asks; for example, "Where did the two of you meet?" Debra Messing doesn't repeat her sitcom character, or Meg Ryan-out like a moonbeam. She's quite good. The problem is, however, Messing and Dermot Mulroney have absolutely no chemistry together. He doesn't have to be a jungle cat like Rupert Everett in "My Best Friend's Wedding", but, c'mon, he plays a man-ho who got his degree in comparative literature from Brown? There's also a reconciliation late in the film that absolutely rings false. You get the feeling that the screenplay by Dana Fox was tampered with. On the plane, Kat tells Nick(Mulroney) on the plane that her family is unredeemable, and sure enough, Kat's mother(Holland Taylor) says some unbelievable hurtful things about her daughter's broken engagement at the rehearsal. It rings false when "The Wedding Date" ends on such a happy note because the film doesn't really earn it.
Andrew M gave it a 3:
Not the right vehicle for Lopez and McConaughey...in fact not the right vehicle for anyone! Just about everything about this film is weak. There are no true, redeeming strengths. Apart from a few (very few) palatable moments, the whole film is numbing, dumbing and lumbering. I love McConaughey as an actor, he can be quite brilliant. Lopez, I normally find very easy and comfortable to watch too. Both stars in this defective wreck are like sheep minus the flock...lost and scrambled. Much like the people's brains behind this tomato! Aviod it unless you dabble in a little masochism.
Kim K. gave it a 10:
I absolutely love this movie AND Jennifer Lopez. I could watch this movie all day long!
Sam M. gave it a 10:
Fantablous.
Hannah G. gave it a 10:
I just love this movie and I'll love it forever. I didn't love J. Lopez before but she was sweet in this movie, not self-confident as she seems in another way.... I hate those "clever" journalists who know that "this will be an unless film" before they see it...or hope it'll be that...
Fanz20 D. gave it a 10:
I dont know where all of you get off saying this movie sucked, I thought it was AWESOME!!!!! You could feel the tension between Mary and Steve from the beginning. Please don't say this could never happen, because love could happen like this, I have seen it. I thought Jlo and Matthew were a GOOD couple in this movie. It's disappointing to hear critics say that this was not a part Jlo fit to play, who said that jlo has to play 1 character all the time in every movie, there is room to expand you know. I LOVED THIS MOVIE! I GIVE IT A BIG 10!!! I have watched it 5 times.. it's better then blood and gore and sad enough critics give 10 to those violent movies, whatever!!!!
Rosalie B. gave it a 10:
Loved Matthew. Such realism is rearly found. I bought the movie to watch at home. Great job by both Matthew and Jennifer.

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