The Wedding Date

Plot synopsis:
Kat Ellis (Debra Messing) 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 (Amy Adams) wedding. The best man is none other than her former fiancé, who unexpectedly dumped her two years ago. Anxious about confronting him and eager to impress him, she hires suave escort Nick Mercer (Dermot Mulroney) to pose as her boyfriend.
Kat intends to make her former flame, Jeffrey (Jeremy Sheffield), 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 that Jeffrey dumped Kat because he believed he was in love with Amy. Nick had discovered this fact 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 (Peter Egan) asks Kat if Nick 'is the guy for you', and Kat realizes he is, so she sets off to find him. Meanwhile, just before the wedding, Amy confesses her betrayal to her fiancé, Ed (Jack Davenport), but professes her love for him. Ed, upset, chases Jeffrey out of the church and down the road. Jeffrey in distress of the chase, said 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 done nothing wrong because 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, driving away, picks up Ed as Jeffrey disappears into the woods.
Nick and Ed talk about love, and Ed decides he loves Amy more than he is angry. To make it more clear that he should go back, Nick tells Ed if he went back the couple would end up having great make-up sex. To which, Nick helps urge him more to return to the church, so they end up getting married, 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 together. Amy and Kat now reconcile and Kat lets go of her anger and forgives Amy since she confessed the truth to Ed. TJ, Kat's cousin also apparently enjoys a moment with Woody after the wedding. Jeffrey, the main cause of all the trouble, learns absolutely nothing. At the end he is seen trying to get the attentions of a female neighbor.

Tags: romantic, boring

Review:
It's a cute, mildly funny, sometimes sappy, story about a woman, Kat, played by Debra Messing, so wrecked from her last relationship that when she has to go to her sister's wedding where she knows that he ex will be she hires a male escort to go and make him jealous and her family get off her case.
It's a movie for women, by a woman director, and it's really for any girl who ever wished she could have a happy ending like Cinderella.
More than just a romantic comedy, it is a good people movie in which you can visualize yourself (or someone you know) embodied in one of the cast's believable characters.
I went to this movie hoping for a fun enjoyable romantic comedy.
Debra Messing and Dermot had good on screen chemistry and there were twists in the plot that I don't think anyone could have foreseen.
Debra brought her comedic skills to the big screen showing she isn't just a TV star she is now a full fledge leading lady - watch out Julia!I highly recommend this movie to anyone who enjoys the romantic comedy genre.
I loved it so much I would have bought a copy on the spot leaving the theatre to have as my own.Don't believe the critics who are panning this movie see for yourself a wonderful romantic film..
I think this movie was the perfect escape for women who don't want to watch football..
so, i mean give it up, sit back, and just enjoy this very awesome movie.The actors are very well cast, and while i must agree that some of the many plot lines are mostly left hanging, the important ones are not..
After reading some reviews, I had my doubts, but I have to say that I had a good time watching Wedding Date.
I much prefer Dermot Mulroney in this movie than in My Best Friend's Wedding with Julia Roberts.
While the movie did have a very simple plot it was made totally enjoyable by the wacky cast of characters and great one-liners that they tossed out.
I loved every minute and thought it was worth every penny.I will buy this movie the day it comes out on DVD..
My biggest gripes, if you can call them that, are: 1) that we're asked to believe that Dermot Mulroney's character is *so* into Debra Messing's character pretty early on, without much to back it up; and 2) that some of the most romantic lines in the movie are spoiled by being used in the trailer (I hate it when that happens).I thought the casting was well done, and that there was a good amount of character development, probably (surprisingly) more so in the secondary characters.
If I had to compare it to something, I'd call it a bit more risqué version of _My Best Friend's Wedding_, but really, don't *not* go because you think it's already been done or is too clichéd - this is a really funny movie that had people in the audience clapping and laughing the whole way through..
Beautiful Kat (Debra Messing, revisiting her "Will & Grace" character by rote)pays $6000 for a male escort (Dermot Mulroney) to accompany her to her half-sister's wedding in England.I have to mention that "Will & Grace" in the first place is basically a reworking of the film "My Best Friend's Wedding" ANYHOW, with Ms. Messing filling in for the similarly long-red-haired Julia Roberts with a gay friend she is practically in love with, and in that film, Dermot Mulroney ALSO played her old boyfriend!
It took me nearly half the film to even figure out their relationship, it was portrayed so confusingly.Mulroney and Messing have no sex appeal or chemistry together, and the dialogue is not witty or charming enough to carry the viewer across the many plot roles or unbelievable circumstances (such as: why a gorgeous babe like Kat has to hire a male prostitute, when any red-blooded man would be eager to date her).
The reworking of the "Pretty Woman" plot line is very thin, as male prostitutes are much rarer than female and because we culturally find the idea of a woman paying for sexual pleasure sorta "icky", Kat never actually pays for sex and Dermot's character actually pays back his $6000 fee, thus negating the whole hooker/john(or "jeanette") relationship.Utterly without any romance, this is the worst chik-lit type film I have seen since "Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason" and actually it's worse.
I can see both Messing and McDermott in these roles with a better writer, director, and producer.This easily gets my vote as one of the worst movies I've ever wasted time on.
i like Debra messing from will and grace and wasn't really sure if she could carry a movie (since she really hasn't had a lead in a while).
Honestly, don't get me wrong, I LOVE a good cheesy chick-flick as much as the next person and would defend '13 Going On 30' to the death, but a good chick-flick this certainly is NOT!I've never posted on this site (or any other) before but feel I must warn anyone with a shred of intelligence or who lives or has lived in England: you will spend the entire running time cringing over the painfully awkward, wooden dialogue and laughable (well, I say 'laughable' as a figure of speech; an overwhelming sense of depression will muffle any budding laugh at this attempt at comedy), sub-Richard Curtis depiction of English life.
Underneath each Englishman does not lurk a wildly inappropriate Austin Powers, and frankly, good luck finding an English-speaking barman in London nowadays!Debra Messing is good in 'Will and Grace' and was either seriously underused and cast only to whip up publicity for this film as anyone off the street could have played this one-dimensional role, or perhaps just comes off well in 'Will and Grace' because of the chemistry with her co-stars, something which was in embarrassingly short supply here.
He can't act even a little bit, he can barely speak, and he looks not 0.1% as good as he thinks he does, or is supposed to in this role.Ms Messing is well suited to him in those respects.
I won't even waste my time listing the faults.Do yourself a favour and watch any other movie ever made, or failing that just stick needles in your eyeballs for a couple of hours - it would be a more pleasurable and valuable way to waste your life..
To answer Canuck Girl's question from the post previous - the quote that was said a few times, in the article and by Kat's dad at the wedding was -"every woman has the exact love life that she wants".
It won't win any awards or anything, but it made me laugh and I was entertained for an hour and a half...what more do ya want!I do have to say that it was a little bit similar to a few movies I've seen recently though.
It reminded me a lot of the movie Jennifer Aniston was in "Picture Perfect" ...similar plot...she hires someone to pretend (Jay Mohr) to be her boyfriend to make someone else jealous (Kevin Bacon) and then ends up falling in love with him the one she hired.
Unfortunately for "The Wedding Date," I can only rate the film with 4 out of 10 possible tears.My apologies to fans of Debra Messing and Dermot Mulroney, but I did not see much chemistry between their two characters.
The premise of the film is a reverse "Pretty Woman," with Dermot playing the role of Nick, a high-priced male escort hired by Debra's character Kat to accompany her to England for her sister's wedding.
Weak Rom Com. Debra Messing plays Kat Ellis, a neurotic single woman, who hires a male escort (Dermot Mulroney) to play her boyfriend as she attends her sister's wedding where she knows her ex-fiancé will be the best man.The film is just as predictable as the story is generic.
Usually I can tolerate films like The Wedding Date but with unlikable leads, it's a little harder this time around.
In the end, there really is no reason to watch The Wedding Date and it's better if you just skip the movie.
Sick of people feeling sorry for her, single-woman, Kat Ellis (Debra Messing, TV's "Will and Grace") hires male escort Nick ( Dermot Mulrony, "About Schmidt") to pose as her boyfriend for her sister's wedding in London.
But ultimately Nick helps Kat realize that she can open up, and let someone love her.The film borrows too much from similar wedding movies.
The movie also has a reverse "Pretty Women" theme going for it, and knowing her audience, the director makes clever references to that and other films."The Wedding Date" has all the clichéd elements of a typical wedding movie, there is the stereotypical overbearing mother (Holland Taylor, "Legally Blonde"), and practically plagiarized wedding speeches by the family and friends at the wedding and rehearsal dinner.
The real reason why Kat was dumped comes as a surprise and changes the direction of the film for the last half hour.Even though "The Wedding Date" is predictable, it is able to stand on its own.
The feel good story, and humor make it the best date movie released in a long time..
The acting is pretty good, Debra Messing does a great job as a leading lady, she really can carry a romantic comedy.
If you need a feel good love story that you AND a guy will like, this is definitely the movie for you.
I'd rank "Star Wars", "A Nightmare on Elm Street" and "My Favorite Martian" as slightly more likely to happen in real life....Meet Kat, an annoying, neurotic career woman (although admittedly Debra Messing has never looked more beautiful) who hires a gorgeous, nationally renowned male escort (Dermot Mulroney) to be her date to her sister's wedding.
"the wedding date" is a romantic comedy that is in no way like "pretty woman" like all the critics say.
i hate that critics are giving this movie such bad reviews, because it was honestly one of the best romantic comedies i have seen in many years.
His dad ended up bringing him back to life 4 times until the electricity miraculously ended up going out, which saved him from a terrible awful death.So let it be known that the wedding date is a true demon.P.S. The males who are reading this need to be aware.
It is neither funny nor touching, there is no chemistry between Messing and the charisma-free Mulroney and everyone is trying to hard without succeeding on any level.It is a cobbling together of elements from Four Weddings & a Funeral, Bridget Jones's Diary, Notting Hill and Pretty Woman but lacks the charm of all of its influences.It is depressing that anyone thought this was worth the time and money required to bring it to the screen.Cinematic excrement..
It's a good date movie, most women would enjoy it for what it is...
And Debra Messing brought a certain warmth to her character which allowed the female audience to feel like they could totally relate to her which (in my opinion) takes real talent.
They meet the first time getting on a plane to her sister's wedding and over the course of three days realise that they're meant to be.This isn't like Pretty Woman, which also causes you to suspend belief in the romance, but the characters and their relationship with each other and their conversations make you believe it.
The editing was very choppy, and as a result, scenes didn't mesh, characters weren't developed, there weren't clear reasons for some of the "romantic/outrageous" things that occurred, and the movie took on a very (unintentional, mind you) zig zaggy storyline.
Yes it is a standard wedding/desperate single woman "chick flick", but there is so much room for originality regardless, and this movie completely flopped in this regard.I would not recommend this film to anyone willing to spend money, or go for a relaxing night with a date.
I am a fan of the genre, but films such as My Best Friend's Wedding put this movie to shame.
The worst thing of all is that you have two very likable actor in Dermot Mulroney and Debra Messing and their talents are totally wasted.
see the hilarity that ensues when debra messing's character must find a date to her step sister's wedding...
Thank goodness for movies like The Wedding Date..
Dermot was HOT, HOT, HOT and Debra Messing was believable and at times, very cute in her actions and manner.Some of the funniest lines in the film were a little hard to hear, but that was it.
The film was so sweet and the chemistry between Debra Messing and Dermot Mulroney was so perfect.
But what makes this little film charming is the degree of commitment from such solid actors as Dermot Mulroney and even Debra Messing.
In this romantic comedy, Debra Messing plays Kat, a single New Yorker.
It's very comedy and I think it's heartbreakingly romantic, yes, heartbreakingly, I almost burst into tears when Nick Mercer(Dermot Mulroney) said "you're three hundred in short", just see the look on his face, too much emotion makes it emotionlessly cold.
" I think this is all due to Dermot Mulroney's personal attraction, he's the most gorgeous American guy, very much like the PERFECT DATE in this movie.
In this sparkling romantic comedy, Debra Messing plays Kat, a never-married New Yorker, who is invited to her parents' London home for her younger sister's wedding.
In a desperate attempt to face the ordeal with dignity, Kat hires Nick (Dermot Mulroney), a charming and handsome professional male escort, to pose as her new boyfriend and escort her to the wedding.
It cleverly showed realistic relationships, ie Kat and her sister Amy's strained relationship.The basic plot is that Kat hires a male escort to accompany her to her sister's wedding in England so as to make her ex-fiancé mad with jealousy.This film has just the right amount of comedy and romance and is thoroughly enjoyable and very watchable.
Debra Messing was really good and the woman from cutting it was the funniest actress i've seen in such a long time.
The twists and turns of the movie were indeed surprising, making it interesting for the non-lovers for romantic-comedy films.The day I watched the movie, I watched My Best Friend's Wedding in the morning for the nth time without any idea that my best friend would be calling me in the afternoon to invite me to watch a movie with him.
As I always get the chance to choose what movie to watch, I chose The Wedding Date.
After watching the movie, I fell in love with Dermont Mulroney like crazy.
Debra Messing and Dermot Mulroney are genuinely sweet and "real" As someone else online has said Pour the champagne and toast "The Wedding Date." ( mallard "calvin" (Cleveland, OH USA)).
Story goes like this Kat Ellis (Messing), who returns to her parents' London home for her sister's wedding is afraid of confronting her ex fiancé, who dumped her two years before, she hires a male escort Nick (Mulroney) to pose as her new boyfriend.
I thought this movie was perfect if your looking for a lighthearted romantic comedy.
Plus, Messing is great in "Will and Grace", but she just didn't carry the romantic lead in this movie.For comparison, if you are like me, and you liked "My Best Friends Wedding", or "French Kiss", then, IMO, this movie will disappoint.
It simply pales in comparison to other good romantic comedies.Of course it has the predictable "funny" parts, but all in all, I would not recommend this movie..
This movie asks you to suspend your disbelief and believe that Debra Messing, who is absolutely gorgeous, could not find a date to her sister's wedding.
So, Kat (Messing) hires a man named Nick (Mulroney), who may turn out to be the guy she has been looking for her entire life ;).
However, had there been a different leading man, with better chemistry with Messing, this could have been a very good little movie.
Debra Messing was fabulous as the leading lady, Kat Ellis, who hires a male escort, Nick Mercer, for her sister's wedding.
I really did enjoy the casting, Debra Messing did a good job and Amy Adams did as well, and of course the very sexy Dermot was the perfect romantic interest.
In this film Debra Messing's character, Kat, goes to London to her sister's wedding and to deal with the fact that her ex will play a large part in the wedding party.
Dermot Mulroney's character is hired by Kat to escort her to the wedding, to help her deal with the stress and awkwardness of the wedding.Neither Dermot Mulroney nor Debra Messing worked for me in this film.
There's good chemistry between Debra (Kat) and Dermot (Nick), the hooker - as he calls himself at one time.
I'm sure most people have seen or heard of at least one other romantic comedy following a plot that includes prostitute and client falling in love, former flames, or getting a date for a wedding/some other social outing to not look like a loser (or all three).
However, with better romantic comedy movies, they at least try to have something good about them; fresh jokes, good witty dialog, enjoyable characters, etc.
Debra Missing is one of the brightest new talents to come from television, and she lights up the screen in a happy, positive way, but she may not yet be ready to carry a heavy romantic comedy-drama such as this--especially one so obviously cobbled together from other wedding movies.
He always plays "the good guy." Well, what I want to know is how he manages to land roles with people like Julia Roberts who he was acting beside ALSO pertaining to a wedding, and not get discouraged as an actor?
Had it not been for Amy Adams and Debra Messing, the movie would have been a total waste of time for me.