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The Wedding Date

Love doesn't come cheap.

2005 · 1h 28m · PG-13 Comedy, Romance
Directed by Clare Kilner

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Overview

With the wedding of her younger sister fast approaching, Kat Ellis faces the undesirable prospect of traveling alone to London for the ceremony. While this is bad enough, Jeffrey, the man who left her as they moved closer to marriage, happens to be the groom's best man. Determined to show everyone -- most of all Jeffrey -- that her romantic life is as full and thrilling as ever, Kat hires a charming male escort as her date.

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11%
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Rotten

Nothing says true love like a movie about a desperate, neurotic woman who hires a male whore to take her to her sister's wedding so she can make the ex-fiance jealous. I wonder if they have a Vermont Teddy Bear for that?

Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper
Rotten

This is a charmless, lifeless affair that had me leaving the theater in a mood more appropriate to a funeral than a wedding.

James Berardinelli, ReelViews
Rotten

Clare Kilner's cast frolics in the countryside in an appropriately British-romantic-comedy fashion, and at times the characters trade silly snaps, but Dana Fox's screenplay is structurally shaky.

Jennifer Snow, Village Voice
Fresh

Mulroney is a stealth actor: Whenever you see him in a picture, you're not just reminded of how good he almost always is -- you have the sense of discovering it for the first time.

Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com
Rotten

Admittedly, no part of the year is immune to bad romantic comedies. But what distinguishes The Wedding Date, what qualifies it so impeccably for turkey season, goes way beyond generic foulness.

Rick Groen, Globe and Mail

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