Themes: Assumed Identities, Wedding Bells, Looking For Love
Main Cast: Debra Messing, Dermot Mulroney, Amy Adams, Jeremy Sheffield
Release Year: 2005
Country: US
Run Time: 88 minutes
MPAA Rating: PG13
Plot
A gal who needs a date for a family function gets the best man money can buy in this romantic comedy. Kat Ellis (Debra Messing) is a woman in her mid-thirties living in New York City and has had more than her share of romantic problems -- enough so that she's gotten word that her younger half-sister Amy (Amy Adams) is getting married, and that her mother Bunny (Holland Taylor) and father Victor (Peter Egan) want to fix her up with someone so she won't look alone and miserable for the big day. Adding insult to injury, Kat learns that the best man at the ceremony will be Jeffrey (Jeremy Sheffield), a former boyfriend who cruelly dumped her without warning two years before. Determined not to show up alone, Kat swallows her pride and hires Nick Mercer (Dermot Mulroney), a professional escort, who will pose as her boyfriend for a $6,000 fee. Kat and Nick fly to England for the wedding, and her family and friends are all struck by how charming, handsome, and personable Nick is -- and Kat begins wondering if their relationship has to be all business; however, as it turns out, Nick understands Kat far better than she expects. The Wedding Date was based on the novel Asking for Trouble by British author Elizabeth Young. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
The Wedding Date (2005) is a romantic comedydirected by Clare Kilner, who also directed How to Deal (2003). The release was successful achieving $47 million worldwide at the box office against a budget of $15 million.
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.
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.[1]
1. Invitation To A Wedding
2. Hello 3-B/Good Morning
3. What You’re Wearing
4. On Board
5. Close Your Eyes
6. On The Left, Right?
7. Bloody Mary/Interested
8. Discovery
9. To The Wedding
10. It’s Complicated
11. Airport Transaction
12. Big Bed In The Country
13. Betrayal
14. The Morning After
15. Going To Get Him
16. I’m Sorry/Best Man
17. Willy Wide Wonder-->
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.
It was remade in Hindi as Aap Ki Khatir (2006) starring Akshaye Khanna, Priyanka Chopra, Dino Morea, Sunil Shetty and Amisha Patel.
Locations
Some outdoor scenes where they are playing rounders are on location in Parliament Hill Fields overlooking west London. Another part of the film is set in Shere, Surrey.
