The Wedding Date

Infobox_Film
name = The Wedding Date


director = Clare Kilner
writer = Elizabeth Young (book)
Dana Fox (screenplay)
producer = Jessica Bendinger
Paul Brooks
Michelle Chydzik
Nathalie Marciano
starring = Debra Messing
Dermot Mulroney
Amy Adams
Jack Davenport
Peter Egan
Holland Taylor | distributor =Universal Pictures
released = February 4, 2005
runtime = 90 minutes|min
language = English
budget = $15,000,000 (estimated)

music = Blake Neely
awards =
imdb_id = 0372532

"The Wedding Date" (2005) is a romantic comedy directed by Clare Kilner, who also directed "How to Deal" (2003). The release was mildly successful achieving a total of $47,175,038 worldwide at the box office.

Plot summary

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's (Amy Adams) wedding. She is dismayed to discover that the best man is none other than her former fiancé, who unceremoniously dumped her two years ago. Anxious about confronting him and eager to impress him, she hires debonair male 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. Along the way, Kat discovers that her younger half sister, Amy, slept with Jeffrey while they were still together. This affair was the reason why Jeffrey dumped Kat because he fancied himself in love with Amy. Amy confesses her guilt to her fiancé Ed (Jack Davenport) just before the church ceremony. However, Ed decides that he loves Amy more than he is angry and they end up getting hitched after all. Kat and Nick end up together.

oundtrack

The Original Score was composed by Blake Neely, performed by the Northwest Sinfonia Orchestra and was released as a limited edition by Buysoundtrax Records on February 4, 2005. [http://www.amazon.com/Wedding-Date-Blake-Neely/dp/B0009OPMSM Amazon.com]

Trivia

*Film tagline: "Love doesn't come cheap."
*Excluding the ending credits, the film's actual running time is only 78 minutes.
*Michael Bublé sings Home as well as the last song featured in the film: "Save the Last Dance for Me".
*Although weddings usually have multitudes of fresh flowers, the filmmakers tried to use fake flowers as often as they could because Messing is allergic to the real ones.
*Part of the movie was filmed in Shere, England.
*It was remade in Hindi as "Aap Ki Khatir" (2006) starring Akshaye Khanna, Priyanka Chopra, Dino Morea, Sunil Shetty and Amisha Patel.

References

External links

* [http://www.theweddingdate.net/ Official site]
*imdb title|id=0372532|title=The Wedding Date
*rotten-tomatoes|id=wedding_date|title=The Wedding Date