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The Wedding Date (2005) DVD Review
The Wedding Date (2005) DVD Credits:
The Wedding Date (2005) Directed by:
Clare Kilner
The Wedding Date (2005) Written by:
Dana Fox, Elizabeth Young
The Wedding Date (2005) Cast:
Debra Messing, Dermot Mulroney, Amy Adams, Jack Davenport, Sarah Parish, Jeremy Sheffield, Peter Egan, Holland Taylor, Jolyon James, C Harris
The Wedding Date (2005) Released by:
Not available at this time
Region:
1
The Wedding Date (2005) DVD Release Date:
1st January 2006
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The Wedding Date (2005) Synopsis:

Kat Ellis is looking for the right man -- now! The position comes with a few requirements. The qualified candidate should have the ability to make ex-boyfriends jealous, to turn heads whenever entering a room and to reduce any woman to a weak-kneed, besotted admirer. Kat wouldn't be so urgently in need were it not for her spoiled half sister's wedding, where the best man happens to be Kat's handsome ex-boyfriend. What's worse, the currently single Kat has to schlep all the way from New York to London, where her wildly dysfunctional family lives. Kat does what any enterprising single woman would do -- she hires a professional escort. So what if her solution crosses a few morally dubious lines and costs her a tidy 6,000 bucks? Lucky for her that she hires Nick Mercer, one of New York's better known and in-demand professional male escorts. Once in England, the insightful and charismatic Nick helps Kat navigate the choppy waters of her screwy family and caddish old flame Jeffrey and convinces everyone he meets that he and Kat are an item. As Nick charms Kat's parents, Bunny and Victor Ellis, her self-absorbed half sister Amy, Amy's fiancée Edward and every living, breathing woman within a 100-kilometer radius, Kat finds herself feeling things she's never felt before. What begins as merely a face-saving ruse with a dashing guy-for-hire quickly becomes more than Kat ever expected.

The Wedding Date (2005) DVD Review:

I can’t help but wonder what the filmmakers were thinking when they began to film The Wedding Date. Pretty Woman worked, so why not take two attractive and charming actors and make another version of the film with a male prostitute? It may have sounded like a good idea at the time, and I’m certain that there were even a few thirteen year old girls that fell for the forced sentimentality and raunchy sexual dialogue, but there is no excuse for the grown adults that had a part in creating this atrocity to good taste. In concept the film really should have worked, except for the fact that it is a film for adults with the maturity of a melodramatic schoolgirl.

Kat Ellis ( Debra Messing) is returning home to her sister’s wedding in which her ex-fiancé is the best man. In a desperate attempt to win him back Kat hires a male escort to make him jealous. Luckily her male escort is Nick (Dermot Mulroney), a charming and intelligent escort with the ability to win over the whole family.

It isn’t the plot which is the problem because it has come to be expected that romantic comedies will follow a rather narrow and generic path. The real problem came with the dialogue and even the acting. The best friend character is one of the expected elements in these kinds of films, but Kat’s best friend is a horrifically foul mouthed British cousin. Nearly everything which comes out of her mouth is meant to be funny when it actually does a great deal to tear the film of any class or dignity that it may have had otherwise.

Nearly as bad as the obscene dialogue was Dermot Mulroney. Although there have been many roles in which I found him believable enough, he stumbles over most of the cheesy dialogue so bad that it almost seems as though he is reading it. Fortunately Debra Messing seems to survive somehow and is actually quite sweet as Kat. Unfortunately it is just too little to make this film work.

The DVD has a typical menu which makes the film look far more romantic than it deserves. The special features include deleted scenes which are useless, an interview with Debra Messing which works very hard to make the film seem great, and commentary with Debra Messing.

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The Wedding Date (2005) DVD review written by: Ryan Izay

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