The Wedding Date is a 2005 American romantic comedy film directed by Clare Kilner and starring Debra Messing, Dermot Mulroney, and Amy Adams. Based on the 2002 novel Asking for Trouble by Elizabeth Young, the film is about a single woman who hires a male escort to pose as her boyfrid at her sister's wedding in order to dupe her ex-fiancé, who dumped her a few years prior. The film was released on February 4, 2005 and grossed $47 million.
Kat Ellis is a single New Yorker who returns to her parts' house in London to be the maid of honor at her younger half-sister Amy's wedding. The best man is her former fiancé, who unexpectedly dumped her two years ago. Anxious about confronting and eager to impress him, she hires suave escort Nick Mercer to pose as her boyfrid.
Kat intds to make her former flame, Jeffrey, jealous, but her plan backfires wh Nick convinces everyone, including her, that they are madly in love. Kat th feels herself, too, falling for Nick as he slowly falls for her.
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The night before the wedding, Kat discovers Amy slept with Jeffrey wh they were still together, and he dumped Kat because he believed he was in love with Amy. Nick had discovered this a day earlier, and wh Kat finds that out, she feels betrayed from all sides, and puts Nick off. He decides to return to America, and leaves Kat the money she had paid him.
On the wedding day, seeing Kat distressed, her step-father asks her if Nick 'is the guy for you'. Kat realizes he is, so she sets off to find him. Meanwhile, just before the wedding ceremony, Amy confesses her betrayal to her fiancé, Ed, but professes her love for him. Upset, Ed chases Jeffrey out of the church and down the road. Jeffrey says he gave up on Amy and believes he's done nothing wrong. To which Ed, calls him a back-stabbing weasel, though Jeffrey believes he's still not in the wrong as he slept with Amy before they dated. Ed shouts out that he was gaged to Kat, proving he was still in the wrong for what he did to Kat.
Nick picks up Ed in a car as Jeffrey disappears into the woods. They talk about love, and Ed decides he loves Amy more than he is angry. To make it clearer he should go back, Nick tells Ed if he wt back the couple would d up having great makeup sex. They return to the church, with Nick as 'new' best man. Just before the ceremony, Nick tells Kat he realized he'd ... rather fight with you than make love with anyone else, and they kiss passionately.
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Kat and Nick begin a real relationship. Amy and Kat now reconcile, Kat lets go of her anger and forgives Amy as she confessed the truth to Ed. TJ, Kat's cousin also appartly joys a momt with Woody after the wedding. Jeffrey learns absolutely nothing, at the d he is se trying to get the atttion of a female neighbor.
Some outdoor sces where they are playing rounders were filmed on location in Parliamt Hill Fields, overlooking ctral London. The film was also filmed in parts of Surrey, including Shere, Chilworth, Godalming and Guildford.
The Wedding Date grossed $31.7 million in the United States and Canada, and $15.4 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $47.2 million.
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On Rott Tomatoes the film holds an approval rating of 11% based on 140 reviews, with an average rating of 3.8/10. The site's critical conssus reads, Critics are leaving The Wedding Date at the altar, calling it shopworn, bland, and lightweight.
On Metacritic the film has a weighted average score of 32 out of 100, based on 34 critics, indicating gerally unfavorable reviews.
On Rott Tomatoes the film holds an approval rating of 11% based on 140 reviews, with an average rating of 3.8/10. The site's critical conssus reads, Critics are leaving The Wedding Date at the altar, calling it shopworn, bland, and lightweight.
On Metacritic the film has a weighted average score of 32 out of 100, based on 34 critics, indicating gerally unfavorable reviews.
