The Wedding Date (Widescreen Edition)
by Clare Kilner
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Actor: Amy Adams, Debra Messing, Dermot Mulroney, Jack Davenport, Sarah ParishDirector: Clare Kilner
Brand: UNIVERSAL STUDIOS HOME ENTERTAIN.
Producer: Jeff Levine
Producer: Jessica Bendinger
Producer: Jim Reeve
Producer: Mairi Bett
Producer: Michelle Chydzik Sowa
Writer: Dana Fox
Writer: Elizabeth Young
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 90 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-08-16
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Universal Pictures
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DVD Review: Not Buying It
Summary: 3 Stars
"The Wedding Date" tells of what happens when Kat Ellis (Debra Messing) hires male escort extraordinaire Nick Mercer (Dermot Mulroney) to accompany her to her sister's wedding, posing as her boyfriend. She can't face her ex- fiancé without the crutch, not to mention her toxic mother, (Holland Taylor) Bunny. But what begins as a purely financial transaction soon morphs into true love, or so this movie would have you believe, but I'm not buying it.
I wasn't asking much, just a bit of light entertainment, a diversion. I was diverted, but most of the fun was unintentional humor and disecting the corpse, and determining where and how the movie went terribly wrong. The story could have been made into a decent entertainment, but what little charm there was was spoiled by sloppy editing and poor direction from Clare Kilner.
I guess I got off on the wrong foot with this movie, because I thought that Rupert Everrett was the lead, and that was pointing to a whole different dénouement, if you catch my drift. I think somehow I was getting it mixed up with "My Best Friend's Wedding" which starred both Rupert and Derrmot Mulroney, along with Julia Roberts. I was confused when all the Brits made fun of Dermot's American accent, and thought he was playing against character (in more ways than one). Actually, he is from Virginia, and not only does he act, he also plays Cello. No kidding, and he even plays on some well known recordings.
Why was the wedding in London, and why were all the characters British? I guess Kat's mother married a Limey, but why then do they all sound so American, if they grew up in England?
Anyway, I like Debra Messing, and think she is very attractive and appealing. Her comedy works better when she has other funny people to react to. She of course played Grace on NBC's comedy, Will and Grace. I like her, and I also thought that Dermot Mulroney was doing a good job of acting, but I wasn't buying the romance between them. No chemistry whatsoever. I also like Holland Taylor who played Kat's mother, Bunny. She is Evelyn Harper on "Two and a Half Men," mother to the two men, and grandmother to the half man, and does an excellent job of portraying a Malibu Real Estate Agent. I like her, and she could have been good in "The Wedding Date," but alas, wasn't given much to work with, and what little she had was apparantly cast down on the cutting room floor.
I watched the deleted scenes and found a lot of things that only made sense once you saw them. Why the director choose to discard the exculpatory evidence is beyond me. For instance, Kat, her sister, and all the women from the wedding party are shown pub crawling, and they refer to the drinks as holes. For instance they speak of the seventh hole. But you aren't shown the scene where Kat describes "Pub Golf" where you go from pub to pub drinking a "hole" at each one until you make it to the 18th pub. Also, you lose points for vomiting, but not as many points are lost if you remember to yell "Fore!" Perhaps I should be grateful that a scene of gratuitous projectile vomiting was also omitted.
There was also a scene where Bunny described the pivotal moment where Kat and her sister went from inseparable sisters to sibling rivals. This was cut, and it would have done a lot to explain their complicated relationship, but would have been too little too late, and besides I didn't really care about the sister at all because she wasn't three dimensional, two dimensional, or even one dimensional, she was like zero dimensional. Bo-ring. Don't care. Not buying it.
One other thing that made little or no sense was that Nick Mercer was supposed to have written an article for the New Yorker that said that "woman wind up with the relationship they want" or words to that effect slightly paraphrased, and Kat's British step father quotes it in a conversation with Nick. Not buying any of it. Not buying that the step father read it, or that he would quote it unbeknownst that he was talking to the author, and not buying that Nick wrote the article, in spite of his back story of a degree in Comparative Literature from Brown University. Not buying it at all. Like Kat, who found that paying for "it" was morally repugnant, I'm not buying it.
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Description of The Wedding Date (Widescreen Edition)
If you're a fan of the frazzled comic rhythms Debra Messing plies on Will & Grace, or if you're pre-sold on the concept of Dermot Mulroney as the world's most dashing heartthrob--an idea given ample evidence here--this escapist romance may provide just enough distraction. The Wedding Date's Pretty Woman-in-reverse plot finds Kat Kat Ellis (Messing) hiring expensive male escort Nick Mercer (Mulroney) to fly to London and pose as her dashing new boyfriend at her sister's wedding so she can face the best man, an ex-fiancé who broke her heart. Non-fans of the stars or romantic comedies in general beware: there's no real chemistry or conflict, and you should alert the media if you can determine exactly when and why Kat and Nick fall in love. Mulroney has nothing to do but be sensitively suave--the film's entire running time is spent waiting for Kat to realize that Nick, hooker or no, is the best thing that ever happened to her (her father may be cinema's first dad to ever encourage his daughter to snare a gigolo while she still can). This is a relatively painless but forgettable first Date; you probably won't need a second assignation.--Steve WieckingBestsellers in DVD
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