Wedding Date (2005)

Wedding Date: Directed by Clare Kilner. With Debra Messing, Dermot Mulroney, Amy Adams, Jack Davenport. Single-girl anxiety causes Kat Ellis to hire a male escort to pose as her boyfriend at her sister’s wedding. Her plan, an attempt to dupe her ex-fiancé, who dumped her a couple years prior, proves to be her undoing.

“If you see a preview for The Wedding Date before you go see it, you understand what type of movie this is. Itu0026#39;s a chick flick. Itu0026#39;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 sisteru0026#39;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. The escort, Nick, played by Dermot Mulroney, isnu0026#39;t your average Gigolo. No, heu0026#39;s what you would consider the cream of the crop, and he doesnu0026#39;t come cheap. A cute, non-threatening premise, for a genuinely cute, non-threatening, romantic comedy.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eYou canu0026#39;t go in expecting genius, because thatu0026#39;s not what youu0026#39;ll get. The Wedding Date, however, is a glorious, indulgent movie that will leave you smiling. Itu0026#39;s a movie for women, by a woman director, and itu0026#39;s really for any girl who ever wished she could have a happy ending like Cinderella. Itu0026#39;s not all roses, of course, which keeps it interesting. Itu0026#39;s all par for the course, however, when it comes to romantic comedies. Plus, the few glimpses of a bare-bottomed, Mulroney will keep you interested, too.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eI ranked this movie an 8 out of 10. I wasnu0026#39;t comparing it to Gone with the Wind, or the Godfather. I was comparing it to other cute romantic comedies, and as far as they go, this was a good one.”