The Wedding Date

The Wedding Date is a 2005 American romantic comedy film directed by Clare Kilner and starring Debra Messing, Dermot Mulroney, and Amy Adams. Based on the 2002 novel Asking for Trouble by Elizabeth Young, the film is about a single woman who hires a male escort to pose as her boyfriend at her sister's wedding in order to dupe her ex-fiancé, who dumped her a few years prior. The film was released on February 4, 2005 and grossed $47 million.

The Wedding Date
Theatrical release poster
Directed byClare Kilner
Written byDana Fox
Based onAsking for Trouble
by Elizabeth Young
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyOliver Curtis
Edited byMary Finlay
Music byBlake Neely
Production
company
Distributed byUniversal Pictures
(United States)
Senator International
(International)
Release date
  • February 4, 2005 (2005-02-04) (United States)
Running time
90 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$15 million[1]
Box office$47.2 million[1]

Plot

Kat Ellis is a single New Yorker who returns to her parents' house in London to be the maid of honor at her younger half-sister Amy's wedding. The best man is her former fiancé, who unexpectedly dumped her two years ago. Anxious about confronting and eager to impress him, she hires suave escort Nick Mercer to pose as her boyfriend.

Kat intends to make her former flame, Jeffrey, jealous, but her plan backfires when Nick convinces everyone, including her, that they are madly in love. Kat then feels herself, too, falling for Nick as he slowly falls for her.

The night before the wedding, Kat discovers Amy slept with Jeffrey when they were still together, and he dumped her because he believed he was in love with Amy. Nick had discovered this a day earlier, and when Kat finds that out, she feels betrayed from all sides, and puts Nick off. He decides to return to America, and leaves Kat the money she had paid him.

On the wedding day, seeing Kat distressed, her step-father asks her if Nick 'is the guy for you'. Kat realizes he is, so she sets off to find him. Meanwhile, just before the wedding ceremony, Amy confesses her betrayal to her fiancé, Ed, but professes her love for him.

Upset, Ed chases Jeffrey out of the church and down the road. Jeffrey says he gave up on Amy and believes he's done nothing wrong. To which Ed, calls him a "back-stabbing weasel", though Jeffrey believes he's still not in the wrong as he slept with Amy before they dated. Ed shouts out that he was engaged to Kat, proving he was still in the wrong for what he did to Kat.

Nick picks up Ed in a car as Jeffrey disappears into the woods. They talk about love, and Ed decides he loves Amy more than he is angry. To make it clearer he should go back, Nick tells Ed if he went back the couple would end up having great makeup sex. They return to the church, with Nick as 'new' best man. Just before the ceremony, Nick tells Kat he realized he'd "... rather fight with you than make love with anyone else", and they kiss passionately.

Kat and Nick begin a real relationship, and he gives up his job. Amy and Kat now reconcile, Kat lets go of her anger and forgives Amy as she confessed the truth to Ed. TJ, Kat's cousin also apparently enjoys a moment with Woody after the wedding. Jeffrey learns absolutely nothing, at the end he is seen trying to get the attention of a female neighbor.

Cast

Production

Some outdoor scenes where they are playing rounders were filmed on location in Parliament Hill Fields, overlooking central London. The film was also filmed in parts of Surrey, including Shere, Chilworth, Godalming and Guildford.[2][3]

Soundtrack

Reception

Box office

The Wedding Date grossed $31.7 million in the United States and Canada, and $15.4 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $47.2 million.[1]

Critical response

On Rotten Tomatoes the film holds an approval rating of 11% based on 142 reviews, with an average rating of 3.9/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Critics are leaving The Wedding Date at the altar, calling it shopworn, bland, and lightweight."[4] On Metacritic the film has a weighted average score of 32 out of 100, based on 34 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews".[5] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B" on an A+ to F scale.[6]

References
  1. "The Wedding Date (2005) - Financial Information". The Numbers. Nash Information Services, LLC. Retrieved 14 May 2023.
  2. Kamble, Sonika (1 May 2023). "Where Was The Wedding Date Filmed?". The Cinemaholic. Retrieved 23 May 2023.
  3. "Surrey Film Locations". Great British Life. 28 July 2017. Retrieved 23 May 2023.
  4. "The Wedding Date (2005)". Rotten Tomatoes.
  5. "The Wedding Date reviews". Metacritic.
  6. "Home". CinemaScore. Retrieved 19 November 2022.
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