Amy Adams, C. Gerod Harris, Debra Messing

Kat Ellis is looking for the right man -- now! The position comes with a few requirements. The qualified candidate should have the ability to make ex-boyfriends jealous, to turn heads whenever enterin...( read more  read more... )g a room and to reduce any woman to a weak-kneed, besotted admirer. Kat wouldn't be so urgently in need were it not for her spoiled half sister's wedding, where the best man happens to be Kat's handsome ex-boyfriend. What's worse, the currently single Kat has to schlep all the way from New York to London, where her wildly dysfunctional family lives. Kat does what any enterprising single woman would do -- she hires a professional escort. So what if her solution crosses a few morally dubious lines and costs her a tidy 6,000 bucks? Lucky for her that she hires Nick Mercer, one of New York's better known and in-demand professional male escorts. Once in England, the insightful and charismatic Nick helps Kat navigate the choppy waters of her screwy family and caddish old flame Jeffrey and convinces everyone he meets that he and Kat are an item. As Nick charms Kat's parents, Bunny and Victor Ellis, her self-absorbed half sister Amy, Amy's fiancée Edward and every living, breathing woman within a 100-kilometer radius, Kat finds herself feeling things she's never felt before. What begins as merely a face-saving ruse with a dashing guy-for-hire quickly becomes more than Kat ever expected.

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PG-13, 1 hr. 30 min.

Directed by: Clare Kilner

Release Date: February 4, 2005

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DVD Release Date: August 16, 2005

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  • November 11, 2009
    Shoddy story, awful performances with a script that sounded like it was written by a 12 boy in love. Adams, Messing and Davenport hang your heads in shame, your better than this. However, Mulroney, Sheffield and the ever awful Sarah Parish, we expected no less! If you're gonna mi...( read more)ss a film this year, make sure it's this one!
  • December 22, 2008
    Kat (Debra) is looking for a date for her sister's wedding so she hires an escort to make her ex jealous. Some secrets are revealed at the wedding and things get complicated with the escort. Good cast and good storyline.
  • April 21, 2008
    "The Wedding Date" centers around Kat Ellis (Messing), who returns to her parents' London home for her sister's wedding. Afraid of confronting her ex-fiancé, who dumped her two years before, she hires a top-drawer male escort (Mulroney) to pose as her new boyfriend. The film borr...( read more)ows too much from similar wedding movies. It is almost a carbon copy of 1999's "Picture Perfect" and mixes in scenes similar to "The Wedding Planner" and "My Best Friends Wedding". 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 twist at the ending has been done before, but it was something that wasn't completely expected. 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. Debra Messing, in her first lead role, proves she can be charming and funny. Dermot Mulrony has great chemistry with Debra Messing. Definitely a feel good movie. Have a girls night and see this show.
  • April 17, 2008
    This has got to be one of the cutest movies ever and he has some of a nice body
  • March 26, 2008
    this was really bad. the person who made me see it was in trouble for several weeks afterwards.
  • November 10, 2009
    sweet and funny :O) i enjoyed that! :O)
  • October 20, 2009
    I'm pretty sure i have seen this but it can't have been that good it I can't remember it...
  • October 14, 2009
    "Here's to the husbands who've won you, the losers who've lost you, and the lucky bastards who've yet to meet you." -Nick Mercer. This was a light romantic comedy movie about a girl who hired someone to be her wedding date on her sisters wedding. Well, as expected its not that e...( read more)xtraordinary love story that I'm looking forward to but It made me smile at times. We're all fond of wedding scenes and also the soundtracks used are pretty much lovely like the songs secret and home.
  • October 11, 2009
    It really showed me what Love can be like!!!!!!!!!!
  • September 26, 2009
    i love this movie. Dermot Mulroney is so cute.

Critic Reviews


February 4, 2005
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com

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. full review

February 4, 2005
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times

Like a bridal shower, it's probably more fun if you have some champagne first. Perhaps some enterprising theater manager will consider this. full review

February 4, 2005
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle

A fairly mediocre film, not nearly as funny as it should be, nor as heartfelt. full review

February 4, 2005
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

The Wedding Date presents the curious case of two appealing performances surviving a bombardment of schlock. full review

February 3, 2005
Colin Covert, The Minneapolis Star Tribune

Scenes don't build momentum, and I don't think I've ever seen a feature where so many lines of dialogue were delivered by actors hovering off-screen or standing with their backs to the camera. full review

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Comments


  • mghs2000
    May 16, 2008
    what happened in the ending of the movie? I missed it! :S
  • biyayya
    March 25, 2008
    really like the movie, its romantic.
  • dionneladiva
    February 29, 2008
    I totally love this movie, it is definitely one of those movies that I acn watch and enjoy repeatly.
  • pavacri23
    February 23, 2008
    well another one
  • sportboy
    February 21, 2008
    I really enjoyed this film it was really good it was about boys who went like down a place under ground and then a gang of boys jumped on a train and one fell down a hole and there was a tiger in the hole saw is friend threw a rope down and he climbed back up but a boy fell down another hole and a man came in so he hid in the blue box and the man opened the blue box but when he did the man broke the blue box and ran away great movie it was.
  • wegngis2
    June 25, 2007
    Sucked. No, really sucked. Avoid at all costs. The preview was the best part, it was all downhill from there.
  • XxXsiteforrentXxX
    March 2, 2007
    TJ had to be the best charcter, she brought the thing together, and made me laugh alot. Especially in the dance class :). Good film, one that can be watched several times.

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