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Title: The Wedding Date

Date Viewed: 2/13/05

Details:

Debra Messing

Dermot Mulroney

Amy Adams

Jack Davenport

Sarah Parish

Jeremy Sheffield

Director: Clare Kilner

Score: 1/2

The Review: Light romantic comedy -- but then, how many romantic comedies are not light, fluffy, airy poofs? This is certainly no Four Weddings and a Funeral, and its cast nowhere near as stellar, but is acceptable Valentine's Day fare, nonetheless.

Kat (Messing) has been invited to return to London for her younger sister Amy's (Adams) wedding to minor aristocracy (Davenport), and in order to satisfy her scheming mother's concern about her love-life and to make her ex-husband (Sheffield) jealous, she contracts a hunky Manhattan-based escort (Mulroney) to be her wedding date. Of course, being a comedy (?), this lie leads to many other follow-on lies. But then we discover that Kat's family is about as dysfunctional as one might imagine -- actually, more so -- and the lies start flying fast and furious. Of course, there are some startling revelations, and of course, being a romance (?), Messing starts falling for Mulroney. This ends up being a soap opera with a sense of humor, but it could have had more style and substance.

Re-scripted from the recent English novel (Asking for Trouble) by Elizabeth Young, but with titles, names, places, and circumstances all changed to protect the guilty.

(27-Feb-05)

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