Debra Messing and Dermot Mulroney star in the 2005 romantic comedy "The Wedding Date." Messing is best known for her role as Grace Adler on the television series "Will & Grace" and Dermot Mulroney has had a supporting role in numerous films, including "Young Guns," "My Best Friend´s Wedding" and "About Schmidt." Neither actor can be confused as being a box office draw and with a sub-par story, overly cute moments and play-it-safe demeanor, "The Wedding Date" is a horribly plain romantic comedy that excels in absolutely nothing. With no star power and no redeeming qualities, it is surprising that the $15 million dollar picture grossed roughly $32 million in box office receipts.
Kat Ellis (Messing) is a jaded woman who must attend her sister´s wedding and come face-to-face with her ex-fiancé. She still pines for the man who had dumped her and decides to hire a high priced escort to attempt to make her ex jealous and hopefully win him back or have him realize the folly of his dumping her. The escort, Nick (Dermot Mulroney), is a suave, good looking and intelligent man who knows what women want and has all of Kat´s female friends from home swooning over him. She finds him attractive, but her strong feelings for her ex keep her blind to the fact that he has found an attraction with her as well. This weekend at home turns up a few stones involving Kat´s ex and her sister, as well as a few other twists.
In "The Wedding Date," we are led to believe that Nick found something in the phone messages from Kat and after seven calls; he finally agreed to become a wedding date for the first time. We are then led to believe that Nick desires to be with Kat and tries hard to win her over as her escort. This whole concept of perfect man falls for a beautiful but flawed woman after he has escorted countless other women seems a bit too thin to be even remotely believable and with each pathetic mention of her ex, Jeffrey (Jeremy Sheffield), it becomes more and more unlikely that this short set of days would be enough to find the two helplessly and madly in love with each other.
The film walks the R-rating line and attempts to inject sexual situations and humor, but the resulting PG-13 rating only has these more adult moments feel silly and uninspiring. The PG-13 rating isn´t a problem with romantic comedies, but the film spends a large portion of its comedy joking about sex and placing its characters into steamy situations. However, the rating gives the film an "all bark and no bite" feeling. It just makes "The Wedding Date" even duller. One of the characters in the film, TJ (Sarah Parish) is clearly the cigarette smoking, foul-mouthed, overly sexual friend that is a staple of many romantic comedies. With "The Wedding Date" ultimately lacking any sexual energy, her character is completely wasted.
There are so many better romantic comedies out there that this sub par offering is hard to recommend. Debra Messing is cute and she has a little spunk to her, but she cannot carry a film on her own small shoulders. Dermot Mulroney isn´t a bad actor and he is just fine as the object of every woman´s desire, but the film tries to hard to make Nick perfect and after a while, the dialogue and actions of the character just do not back up the hoopla associated with the character by every female in the picture. The estimated $15 million budget certainly wasn´t spent on talent, but the film could have been better served with one of the leads being an A-List talent.
Kat Ellis (Messing) is a jaded woman who must attend her sister´s wedding and come face-to-face with her ex-fiancé. She still pines for the man who had dumped her and decides to hire a high priced escort to attempt to make her ex jealous and hopefully win him back or have him realize the folly of his dumping her. The escort, Nick (Dermot Mulroney), is a suave, good looking and intelligent man who knows what women want and has all of Kat´s female friends from home swooning over him. She finds him attractive, but her strong feelings for her ex keep her blind to the fact that he has found an attraction with her as well. This weekend at home turns up a few stones involving Kat´s ex and her sister, as well as a few other twists.
In "The Wedding Date," we are led to believe that Nick found something in the phone messages from Kat and after seven calls; he finally agreed to become a wedding date for the first time. We are then led to believe that Nick desires to be with Kat and tries hard to win her over as her escort. This whole concept of perfect man falls for a beautiful but flawed woman after he has escorted countless other women seems a bit too thin to be even remotely believable and with each pathetic mention of her ex, Jeffrey (Jeremy Sheffield), it becomes more and more unlikely that this short set of days would be enough to find the two helplessly and madly in love with each other.
The film walks the R-rating line and attempts to inject sexual situations and humor, but the resulting PG-13 rating only has these more adult moments feel silly and uninspiring. The PG-13 rating isn´t a problem with romantic comedies, but the film spends a large portion of its comedy joking about sex and placing its characters into steamy situations. However, the rating gives the film an "all bark and no bite" feeling. It just makes "The Wedding Date" even duller. One of the characters in the film, TJ (Sarah Parish) is clearly the cigarette smoking, foul-mouthed, overly sexual friend that is a staple of many romantic comedies. With "The Wedding Date" ultimately lacking any sexual energy, her character is completely wasted.
There are so many better romantic comedies out there that this sub par offering is hard to recommend. Debra Messing is cute and she has a little spunk to her, but she cannot carry a film on her own small shoulders. Dermot Mulroney isn´t a bad actor and he is just fine as the object of every woman´s desire, but the film tries to hard to make Nick perfect and after a while, the dialogue and actions of the character just do not back up the hoopla associated with the character by every female in the picture. The estimated $15 million budget certainly wasn´t spent on talent, but the film could have been better served with one of the leads being an A-List talent.
Debra Messing and Dermot Mulroney star in the 2005 romantic comedy "The Wedding Date." Messing is best known for her role as Grace Adler on the television series "Will & Grace" and Dermot Mulroney has had a supporting role in numerous films, including "Young Guns," "My Best Friend´s Wedding" and "About Schmidt." Neither actor can be confused as being a box office draw and with a sub-par story, overly cute moments and play-it-safe demeanor, "The Wedding Date" is a horribly plain romantic comedy that excels in absolutely nothing. With no star power and no redeeming qualities, it is surprising that the $15 million dollar picture grossed roughly $32 million in box office receipts.
Kat Ellis (Messing) is a jaded woman who must attend her sister´s wedding and come face-to-face with her ex-fiancé. She still pines for the man who had dumped her and decides to hire a high priced escort to attempt to make her ex jealous and hopefully win him back or have him realize the folly of his dumping her. The escort, Nick (Dermot Mulroney), is a suave, good looking and intelligent man who knows what women want and has all of Kat´s female friends from home swooning over him. She finds him attractive, but her strong feelings for her ex keep her blind to the fact that he has found an attraction with her as well. This weekend at home turns up a few stones involving Kat´s ex and her sister, as well as a few other twists.
In "The Wedding Date," we are led to believe that Nick found something in the phone messages from Kat and after seven calls; he finally agreed to become a wedding date for the first time. We are then led to believe that Nick desires to be with Kat and tries hard to win her over as her escort. This whole concept of perfect man falls for a beautiful but flawed woman after he has escorted countless other women seems a bit too thin to be even remotely believable and with each pathetic mention of her ex, Jeffrey (Jeremy Sheffield), it becomes more and more unlikely that this short set of days would be enough to find the two helplessly and madly in love with each other.
The film walks the R-rating line and attempts to inject sexual situations and humor, but the resulting PG-13 rating only has these more adult moments feel silly and uninspiring. The PG-13 rating isn´t a problem with romantic comedies, but the film spends a large portion of its comedy joking about sex and placing its characters into steamy situations. However, the rating gives the film an "all bark and no bite" feeling. It just makes "The Wedding Date" even duller. One of the characters in the film, TJ (Sarah Parish) is clearly the cigarette smoking, foul-mouthed, overly sexual friend that is a staple of many romantic comedies. With "The Wedding Date" ultimately lacking any sexual energy, her character is completely wasted.
There are so many better romantic comedies out there that this sub par offering is hard to recommend. Debra Messing is cute and she has a little spunk to her, but she cannot carry a film on her own small shoulders. Dermot Mulroney isn´t a bad actor and he is just fine as the object of every woman´s desire, but the film tries to hard to make Nick perfect and after a while, the dialogue and actions of the character just do not back up the hoopla associated with the character by every female in the picture. The estimated $15 million budget certainly wasn´t spent on talent, but the film could have been better served with one of the leads being an A-List talent.
Kat Ellis (Messing) is a jaded woman who must attend her sister´s wedding and come face-to-face with her ex-fiancé. She still pines for the man who had dumped her and decides to hire a high priced escort to attempt to make her ex jealous and hopefully win him back or have him realize the folly of his dumping her. The escort, Nick (Dermot Mulroney), is a suave, good looking and intelligent man who knows what women want and has all of Kat´s female friends from home swooning over him. She finds him attractive, but her strong feelings for her ex keep her blind to the fact that he has found an attraction with her as well. This weekend at home turns up a few stones involving Kat´s ex and her sister, as well as a few other twists.
In "The Wedding Date," we are led to believe that Nick found something in the phone messages from Kat and after seven calls; he finally agreed to become a wedding date for the first time. We are then led to believe that Nick desires to be with Kat and tries hard to win her over as her escort. This whole concept of perfect man falls for a beautiful but flawed woman after he has escorted countless other women seems a bit too thin to be even remotely believable and with each pathetic mention of her ex, Jeffrey (Jeremy Sheffield), it becomes more and more unlikely that this short set of days would be enough to find the two helplessly and madly in love with each other.
The film walks the R-rating line and attempts to inject sexual situations and humor, but the resulting PG-13 rating only has these more adult moments feel silly and uninspiring. The PG-13 rating isn´t a problem with romantic comedies, but the film spends a large portion of its comedy joking about sex and placing its characters into steamy situations. However, the rating gives the film an "all bark and no bite" feeling. It just makes "The Wedding Date" even duller. One of the characters in the film, TJ (Sarah Parish) is clearly the cigarette smoking, foul-mouthed, overly sexual friend that is a staple of many romantic comedies. With "The Wedding Date" ultimately lacking any sexual energy, her character is completely wasted.
There are so many better romantic comedies out there that this sub par offering is hard to recommend. Debra Messing is cute and she has a little spunk to her, but she cannot carry a film on her own small shoulders. Dermot Mulroney isn´t a bad actor and he is just fine as the object of every woman´s desire, but the film tries to hard to make Nick perfect and after a while, the dialogue and actions of the character just do not back up the hoopla associated with the character by every female in the picture. The estimated $15 million budget certainly wasn´t spent on talent, but the film could have been better served with one of the leads being an A-List talent.
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