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"The Wedding Date" presents the curious case of two appealing performances surviving a bombardment of schlock. I have so many questions about the movie's premise that it seems, in memory, almost entirely composed of moments when I was shaking my head in disbelief.

The character played by Dermot Mulroney is a romance novel fantasy, and yet that doesn't prevent him from also being subtle and intriguing. The character played by Debra Messing not only finds Mulroney through an article in the Sunday New York Times magazine, but seems to have found herself there, too, in the spring fashion issue. But she is nevertheless lovable and touching.

The premise: Kat Ellis (Messing) is a British woman living in New York, who must fly back to London for her sister's wedding. The problem: The groom's best man, Jeff, is Kat's former fiance, who dumped her. The solution: She hires a male escort named Nick (Mulroney) to go along with her and play the role of her fiance, so that Jeff will be jealous and she won't look pathetic and single. Nick gets $6,000 plus his air fare on Virgin upper class, which is also what he offers: Sex would be extra.

The movie develops the usual assortment of impossible relatives and fun wedding activities; some scenes look like they're posed for snapshots in The Tatler, a British society magazine devoted to pretending to like twits. The story expertly compacts "Four Weddings and a Funeral," " Pretty Woman " and " My Best Friend's Wedding " into "One Wedding, an Ex-Best Friend and a Pretty Man," with Mulroney (who played the Best Friend in the original) as the escort with a heart of gold.

Yes, and yet the movie isn't giddy with silliness. There's a melancholy undertow. Mulroney seems to have taken a close look at his character and realized that the less Nick says, the better. His personal thoughts are a closely guarded secret, and he makes a point of separating his role as an escort from his feelings as a man. When there comes, as inevitably there must, a moment when his feelings win out, the movie signals this not with clunky dialogue but with the most romantic use of an anchovy I can recall.

Messing, from TV's "Will & Grace," makes Kat a character who is dealing with two confusing situations at once. She doesn't know how she feels about hiring an escort, and she doesn't know how she feels about Jeff ( Jeremy Sheffield ). Does she want Jeff back, or does she just want to make him miserable? Subplots grind away to create last-minute problems for her sister Amy ( Amy Adams ) and her fiance, the forthrightly named Edward Fletcher-Wooten ( Jack Davenport ). Nick the escort is so handsome, so mysteriously knowledgeable, so at home in every situation and so wise that Kat forgets everything a grown-up girl like her should know about prostitution, role-playing and the dangers of STDs, and relates to him as if she were the heroine on the cover of a novel by Jennifer Blake.

"Every woman has the exact love life she wants," Nick believes, according to the Times magazine article. It is his job to figure out what that is, and create the illusion that he is supplying it. "It's not about the sex," he says, "it's about what people need." And what does Kat need? Nick says he heard something in her voice on the phone. "Desperation?" she asks. "I think it was hope," he says. Down, boy!

Part of the movie's appeal comes from the way the Nick character negotiates the absurdities of the plot as if he stands outside it. A lesser performance, or one not as skillfully written (by Dana Fox ) would have pitched him headlong into the fray. By withdrawing, so to speak, he creates a great curiosity about himself, and the other characters see in him what they need to see.

As for Messing, she has an appeal similar to Nia Vardalos in " My Big Fat Greek Wedding ." We want her to be happy. Whether that happiness will come at the hands of Nick is an excellent question, made simpler by the certainty that Jeff would only make her miserable. The answer to this and other questions, every single one of them, is supplied by one of those romantic comedy endings where false crisis and false hope and real crisis and real hope alternate like a clockwork mechanism. Everyone appears and disappears exactly on cue, driving around in sports cars with the top down and running around in shoes meant only for walking down the aisle.

As for Nick, what makes him happy? Is it also true that every man has the exact love life he wants? Does he want his? When he watches " Five Easy Pieces " and Jack Nicholson says, "I faked a little Chopin, and you faked a big response," does he see himself as the pianist, or the piano?

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The Wedding Date (2005)

Rated PG-13 for sexual content including dialogue

Debra Messing as Kat Ellis

Peter Egan as Victor Ellis

Dermot Mulroney as Nick Mercer

Amy Adams as Amy

Jeremy Sheffield as Jeff

Holland Taylor as Bunny

Sarah Parish as TJ

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THE GOOD: Debra Messing and Dermot Mulroney do a pretty good job in this comedy. I felt like I was watching a young Sylvester Stallone who could actually act. The music was good and so was the photography. There are also some pretty wonderful scenes of the English countryside. Forgiveness is a wonderfully cleansing thing for anyone, and for these mixed-up characters it pays wonderful dividends.

THE BAD: This film seems to be a reflection of where society is today—all mixed up and not sure what is right and what is wrong. Kat hires a male prostitute to attend her sister’s wedding because she can’t face her ex-fiancée and her own family by herself. Amy has cheated on her fiancée but is going to marry him anyway. Kat and Nick have sexual relations when Kat is dead drunk. I guess not taking advantage of someone and common decency are too much to ask for these days. There is lying go on throughout the film, but of course it’s okay because everyone is sorry. The ends justify the means in this wonderfully messed up values of a movie.

THE UGLY: Too much sex, too much foul language, too much lying and cheating, and too much drinking. This film is so not family-friendly and would give kids the entirely wrong message of, “If it feels good, do it. If you can get away with it, it’s okay.” Send this wedding invitation back unopened with no forwarding address.

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Man and woman have sex, movements shown, naked from the side;

J-1;Oh my G_d - 5; Bloody (English slang) - 2; A__-2; slang for orgasm; Oh G_d - 3; B_astard - 2; Scr_w - 1; Sh_t - 3; Shag (English slang for intercourse)- 3; P_sses-1;

A lot of drinking at a party, bars, bachelor party. Kat gets drunk with all the other girls. smoking

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The only positive thing that can be said for The Wedding Date is that for some completely inexplicable reason it is set in England and so includes some lovely pastoral scenery and some interesting looking hats.

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The Wedding Date is aiming for Adam's Rib material (the Hepburn/Tracey classic that is one the all-time greatest man versus women films), but its makers are not fit to buff Ms. Hepburn's patent pumps.

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A dupla principal até que se esforça (principalmente Mulroney, que vem se especializando neste tipo de personagem), mas o roteiro repleto de clichês frustra suas tentativas.

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As forgettable as a Hollywood couple's marriage vows.

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Messing-Mulroney romantic comedy has "something borrowed" in its plot -- and a sense of missed opportunity that'll leave you blue.

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The Wedding Date reveals no trace of recognizable human behavior in it.

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confuses sex with romance

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If you can manage all that, and the chemistry between the leads will conspire to help you, then you might find "The Wedding Date'' an amusing take on the strange ways of modern matchmaking, served up with a side dish of self-help for the single gal.

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Seldom has a movie so blatantly illustrated the need for genuine star power in the lead, especially considering The Wedding Date's obvious comparisons to not one, but three more successful Julia Roberts movies.

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The success of Love Actually and Bridget Jones 2 proves there's still demand for straightforward, predictable romantic comedies. But in the case of The Wedding Date, a film presumably intended as a vehicle for Debra 'Will And Grace' Messing's comic talents, its predictability proves to be its downfall.

Unsure if it wants to be a romantic drama or a light comedy, it opts for a mix of both - the upshot being that it's neither dramatic nor funny, merely a collection of stereotypes that have been seen in so many movies of this type; it's as if the makers were ticking them off on a list. Overbearing mother? Check. Lead character who's clearly lonely because she's single? Check. Wedding at a church that involves people running through fields in big dresses? Yup, that's there too.

To her credit, Messing acquits herself well as the neurotic Kat, and, as her stepdad, Peter Egan provides one of the few likeable characters. But the script is poor and the running time so slender that nobody's given time to breathe and develop - we're shown almost nothing of Kat's life in New York, merely told about her romantic failings there later - while the supposedly charismatic Mulroney merely looks bored throughout.

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Debra Messing is absolutely engaging in this smart and witty romantic comedy as a neurotic, single New Yorker who hires a polished male escort (Dermot Mulroney) for her sister's nuptials in England after she learns that the best man is her ex-fiancé. Holland Taylor, Jeremy Sheffield, Amy Adams, Jack Davenport, Peter Egan, Sarah Parish, Jolyon James.

It might be best to discreetly misplace your invitation to these strained festivities. Neurotic New Yorker Kat Ellis (Debra Messing), an airline customer service representative, flips out when she's invited to the London wedding of her petite, self-centered, perfectly blond half sister, Amy (Amy Adams). Amy is marrying boy-next-door Edward (Jack Davenport), and Edward's best friend, Jeffrey (Jeremy Sheffield), just happens to be the man who jilted Kat two years ago. Undone by the thought of facing her former fiancé without a date, she hires one. An in-the-know friend recommends handsome professional escort Nick Mercer (Dermot Mulroney), who charges $6000 for his suave company and extra for sexual services. Kat finds the idea of sex for money appalling, but continues with the date. Once in London, Kat is bombarded with reminders of her past with Jeffrey, including pointed remarks from her outspoken mother (Holland Taylor). Nick demonstrates why he gets the big bucks, smoothly comforting and calming Kat. He meets the approval of her sweet stepfather (Peter Egan) and gal pals, and the large fee appears to be paying off when Jeffrey mistakenly admits he's jealous that the woman he still loves has arrived at yet another family gathering with a new man. When this tidbit trickles back to Kat, she starts feeling more confident about her situation. But things aren't always what they seem, and Kat soon begins to realize that her dream date may actually be the man of her dreams. While apparently aiming for a cross between PRETTY WOMAN (1990) and MY BEST FRIEND'S WEDDING (1997), first-time writer Dana Fox and director Clare Kilner, the party responsible for the equally unappealing HOW TO DEAL (2003), never get a handle on the film's tone. It flip-flops from light romantic comedy to heavier issues and cynical digs at marriage as an institution. While Messing is perfectly suited to playing the awkward-but-beautiful damsel in distress, Mulroney is poorly equipped to evoke the emotional toll of being a male prostitute. Adding to the muddle: Messing has vastly greater chemistry with the charismatic Sheffield than the wooden Mulroney, and Adams is utterly unlikable, even when she's supposed to be having a redeeming moment. As to the "surprising" twists and turns, any halfway movie-savvy viewer will see every one of them coming before Kat's plane begins its descent into Heathrow.

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US Release Date: 02-04-2005

Directed by: Clare Kilner

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Dermot Mulroney and Debra Messing in The Wedding Date .

The plot of this movie in which a redheaded actress goes to a wedding as a bridesmaid with a phony date and is really in love with a member of the wedding party, and stars Dermot Mulroney, might sound a little familiar to you. If it does then you've probably seen 1997's My Best Friend's Wedding . And even though this movie isn't an exact replica of that one, it definitely has an air of having seen it all before only done better feeling about it.

Debra Messing, of Will & Grace fame, stars as Kat, and given the sitcom level of jokes here, I'm sure her long run on that show helped her feel right at home. Mulroney, who played the groom in that earlier film, plays the male escort Kat hires to accompany her to her sister's wedding. It seems that Kat's ex-fiancée is the best man and she's still in love with him, even though he dumped her. Thus added to the shades of My Best Friend's Wedding , we have echoes of Pretty Woman . There's no cliché from any romantic comedy of the past twenty years that this movie isn't afraid to borrow, water down, and then recycle.

One of the weakest plot points in the film is also its central premise. Kat hires a male escort but then acts as if he were forced upon her. While staying at her parent's house for the wedding Kat is forced to share a bed with Mulroney. She prepares for the night as if she were a sixteen year old virgin rather than a thirty-something grown woman, by piling pillows and blankets in between them, apparently lest their bodies should accidentally brush against each other. The sight of him through a shower curtain and the view of his naked body is enough to send her into flights of panic. I'm sorry, isn't this the grown woman who hired this guy? The woman who was in a relationship with a man for seven years prior to this? Why is she suddenly acting like Jennifer Garner in 13 Going on 30 ?

As for the inevitable romance, no reason is given to explain why these two people fall in love. Mulroney, who must have been hired by dozens of desperate women before Kat, has sex with her once and then apparently wakes up, deeply in love. Kat, who, like all women in these movies, can't be happy without a man, is so desperate that I guess it's not surprising that she falls in love with a male prostitute, but maybe it's not her heart talking to her, but her biological clock.

Oh sure, there are a few lighthearted moments and some laughs to be had in amongst the clichés, but nothing to justify spending $10 to see. If you want to see Debra Messing playing a single neurotic New Yorker all you have to do is stay home on Thursday night.

Debra Messing in The Wedding Date .

Although I understand Scott's comparison to My Best Friends Wedding , I saw this movie as a pathetic rip off of Pretty Woman . A woman hires a man whore to pretend to be her boyfriend is a direct lift from Gere hiring Robert's prostitute to be his girlfriend. The big, very big, difference is that Pretty Woman is a good movie and The Wedding Date is a complete mess.

Kat pays Nick $6,000 to convince her family that she is romantically fine and make her ex jealous. Nick's job then is to just smile and fawn over Kat. What he ends up doing, as in Pretty Woman , is being the employer's therapist. Kat nicknames him Yoda because he some how seems wise to her. He says stuff like, "The hardest thing is loving someone and then having the courage to let them love you back." He should work for Hallmark.

The jokes never work. The one and only time I laughed is when the, supposed, gorgeous Mulroney walks in a room and one of Kat's friends says “Oh God, I think I've just cum." The 42 year old Mulroney is in good shape for his age, but is he not getting a bit old for the meat on display roles?

I agree with Scott that the romantic angle is also ridiculous. Nick has another gem of a line, when he says to Kat, "I'd rather fight with you than make love with anyone else." Women may swoon over that line, but it made me groan. You need to have a uterus to enjoy this film.

The best line in the entire film is when Nick says, "Go ahead, Kat, hate me. I think you're running out of steam on this whole Jeffrey thing anyhow." Nick's side job should be as a movie critic, as that line describes this movie very well.

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Kat Ellis (DEBRA MESSING) is looking for the right man. NOW. The position comes with a few requirements: willingness to travel, keen social skills, good looks, suave demeanor, sharp mind...and a tux. The qualified candidate should also have (though not required) the ability to make ex-boyfriends jealous, to turn heads whenever entering a room and to reduce any woman within eye- and earshot to a weak-kneed, besotted admirer. Kat wouldn’t be so urgently in need were it not for her spoiled, gets-everything-she-wants 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 -- where she’s made her life -- to London, where her wildly dysfunctional family lives. That’s one long, thankless trip to take solo. And since the wedding is happening, oh, next weekend, Kat does what any enterprising single woman would do -- she tracks down and hires a professional. So what if her solution crosses a few morally dubious lines plus costs her a tidy six thousand bucks which she’ll have to drain from her 401K? And so what if her escort happens to be...well, an escort? Desperate times call for desperate measures. Lucky for her that her hiring skills are pitch-perfect and she zeroes in on smooth heart-stopper Nick Mercer (DERMOT MULRONEY), one of New York’s better known and in-demand professional male escorts who’s quite, uh, well-equipped for the task. Once in England, the insightful and charismatic Nick -- part actor/part shrink/part bon vivant -- helps Kat navigate the choppy waters of her screwy family and caddish old flame Jeffrey (JEREMY SHEFFIELD) and convinces everyone he meets that he and Kat are, indeed, an item. As Nick charms Kat’s parents, Bunny and Victor Ellis (HOLLAND TAYLOR and PETER EGAN), her self-absorbed half-sister Amy (AMY ADAMS), Amy’s fiancee Edward (JACK DAVENPORT), as well as every living, breathing woman within a 100-kilometer radius, Kat too finds herself feeling things she’s never felt before. For Kat, what begins as merely a face-saving ruse with a dashing guy-for-hire -- strictly a business arrangement -- quickly starts to become more than she ever expected. But love doesn’t come cheap... In the tradition of such comedies as Four Weddings and a Funeral, My Best Friend’s Wedding and My Big Fat Greek Wedding, The Wedding Date is a funny, touching and utterly romantic look at love, marriage, family and the sexy surprises life holds in store.

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Wedding Date, The (United States, 2005)

Calling The Wedding Date a "romantic comedy" is a misnomer. It's not funny, and there's not much romance. Oh, the film thinks it's got humor - offbeat characters, wacky situations, goofy faces - but the only members in the audience likely to be chuckling are those who will laugh at anything. And it thinks it's romantic - but bringing a male and female together and letting them kiss and make goo-goo eyes at each other is hardly the basis of a good love story. This is a charmless, lifeless affair that had me leaving the theater in a mood more appropriate to a funeral than a wedding.

This is Dermot Mulroney's second Wedding movie. In his much better first one ( My Best Friend's Wedding ), he played the groom. Here, as Nick Mercer, he's the male prostitute who has been paid to escort Kat Ellis (Debra Messing) to her sister's nuptials. She doesn't want to go alone and apparently can't get a date without paying for one. Enter Nick, who, for $6000 and a round-trip ticket to England (where the ceremony is taking place), will fill the role. Sex, however, isn't part of the package. If it's desired, there's an extra charge. For Kat, consider this added complication: her ex-fiancé, Jeffrey (Jeremy Sheffield), is the best man. Plus, the only member of her family she gets along with is her stepfather (Peter Egan), which is understandable considering how vain and thoroughly unlikable her sister (Amy Adams) and mother (Holland Taylor) are.

Anyway, unless you have never seen a romantic comedy, you know how the story goes. Unfortunately, director Clare Kilner and screenwriter Dana Fox assume audience members are so familiar with the formula that they don't bother to develop the relationship between Kat and Nick. It sort of materializes out of thin air. One moment, they are client and employee, discussing the terms of their arrangement, and the next, they're in love. It's something of a mystery how this transition occurs, since The Wedding Date never bothers to tell that part of the story. It's too busy annoying us with irritating subplots featuring secondary characters.

Debra Messing and Dermot Mulroney are pleasing enough to look at (Messing is a lot more attractive here than in her TV series, "Will & Grace"), and they have plenty of low-key appeal, but there's little evidence of anything resembling a romantic spark between them. If Nick and Kat love each other, they do a good job hiding it. Neither actor is well-served by the screenplay, which is criminally negligent when it comes to exploring the romance, so it's hard to blame either of them for The Wedding Date 's failures. Formulas are not inherently bad in this sort of motion picture, but, even with a connect-the-dots story, it's still necessary to develop characters in which the audience will have a rooting interest. We have to desperately want them to get together, regardless of the obstacles. That's not the case here. At best, we're marginally invested in Kat and Nick's interaction, and the big payoff, such as it is, is ho-hum.

The chief pleasure of any competently made romantic comedy is the vicarious thrill of experiencing the mutual, inevitable attraction between the leads. Screen love isn't the same as real love, but, in a medium like cinema that thrives on fantasy, it's the next best thing. It's a shame that The Wedding Date misses so many of the details, and, as a result, fails to bring us a romance worth sharing. Ultimately, this effort has the stale taste of a made-for-TV movie that found its way into multiplexes along with the fake popcorn butter. In scope, intent, and execution, it comes up small. Even as a chick flick counterprogrammed against the Super Bowl, this motion picture isn't likely to find an appreciable or appreciative audience. With its lack of heart and smarts, it will disappoint all but the most undemanding of romantic comedy fans.

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The Wedding Date: Is the 2005 Movie Inspired by Real People?

Contrary to the mechanized version of happily-ever-afters that begin with ‘meet-cutes’, ‘The Wedding Date’ follows Kat Ellis as she creates her own version of forevermore by undertaking strategic moves. When the horrifying prospect of landing at her sister’s wedding without a date is accentuated by her ex-fiance’s role in the wedding party, Kat finds new options. Directed by Claire Kilner, the romantic comedy chronicles the eclectic story of a male escort hired to attend a wedding as a date. However, even the comical and refreshing narrative does not take away from the pertinent issues it touches upon.

The 2005 movie features Debra Messing, Dermot Mulroney, Amy Adams, Peter Egan, and Holland Taylor. As Kat finds herself befuddled at the prospect of having to face her ex-fiance, who also happens to be the groomsman, she hires a male escort. As the movie veers away from traditional romances, viewers are led to wonder whether or not the story is actually based on a true story. So, if you are also wondering whether or not ‘The Wedding Date’ has emerged from a true story, look no further because we have all the answers you’re looking for.

The Wedding Date is Based on a 2002 Novel

No, ‘The Wedding Date’ is not based on a true story. The movie is actually based on the 2002 fictional novel ‘Asking for Trouble’ by Elizabeth Young. Penned by Dana Fox, the screenplay focuses on an unconventional love story stemming from unlikely circumstances. Even with its disbelieving storyline that may lead viewers to think that the story has emanated from real life, it still remains a work of fiction. As Kat’s younger sister Amy decides to head down the aisle in London, the maid of honor finds herself with the monumental task to find a date for her wedding.

More tension piles up when she learns about her ex-fiance’s role as a groomsman in the wedding. In a series of stressful events, Kat ends up hiring a suave male escort Nick Mercer to pose as her boyfriend. The omnipresence of media allows people to find friends, jobs, and even love in the most odd places. As such, the likeliness of finding a prospective partner may not seem too far-fetched. When Kat Ellis manages to find Nick through an article in Sunday New York Times Magazine, one is bound to reflect on other similar cases.

From people finding their life-long partners on email to Craigslist , one is bound to think that this untraditional romance may also have some iota of reality. However, what really makes the movie seem ‘real’ is the trepidations of the protagonists. As Kat tries to navigate her blossoming feelings for Nick and her confusing reservations for her ex-fiance Jeffrey, viewers are led to wonder whether these melancholic undertones have a real-life inspiration.

Exceptionally real at times, the rom-com does not shy away from the tumultuous past that has left Kat woeful. As Nick skillfully reveals that Kat was looking for hope when she hired him as an escort, one is bound to look at the terrifying insecurities of the protagonist and wonder about the inspiration for the character. Moreover, the movie skillfully shatters the reality of the ‘one.’ The movie veers against the construed idea of the perfect partner that leaves countless stuck to the illusion of the status quo.

In creating a special love story that isn’t curtailed by the accepted notions of society, the movie goes one step further in making the story a unique work. Screenwriter Dan Fox deftly encapsulates the layered intricacies of Nick’s characters within a short while. Instead of positing Nick as a daft representation of his tag, he delves into a withdrawn role that leaves others curious.

Therefore, stepping away from the formulaic characteristics that rule cinema, ‘The Wedding Date’ blends a number of themes that makes its storyline delightful. So, even though the whimsical narrative may lead viewers to think that the movie is based on a true story, it is entirely a work of fiction, giving creators enough liberty to accentuate the storyline.

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(PaPa, B, C, LL, V, SS, NN, AA, D, MM) Strong pagan worldview with some minor moral elements and a redemptive element of forgiveness during scenes set around a planned church wedding; 12 obscenities (including a couple British obscenities), one strong profanity, 11 light profanities, references to having to urinate, and someone says Holy Cr*p!; comic violence includes a few pratfalls, angry cuckolded man chases another man, brief fighting; beginnings of drunken fornication depicted, drunken woman ready to pay man for sex but the alcohol blanks her memory, and many crude sexual references, including references to male prostitution by male gigolo and male escort; obscured upper female nudity, rear male nudity, upper male nudity, girls in clothes arrive at bachelor party ready to strip, and woman stares at man’s sexual organ which cannot be seen; alcohol use and drunkenness; smoking; and, cheating, lying, betrayal, woman tries to make ex-boyfriend jealous, and wild bachelor and bachelorette parties occur but nothing much seems to be shown or heard except drunkenness and brief crude language.

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THE WEDDING DATE is a romantic comedy starring Debra Messing of TV’s WILL & GRACE. She plays Kat Ellis, a pretty young woman lacking confidence with men because she was left at the altar. Kat hires a famous high-class male prostitute and male escort, Nick Mercer (played by Dermot Mulroney), to fly to her sister Amy’s wedding in London to make her ex, Jeffrey, jealous. Intrigued by Nick’s vocation, not to mention his handsome masculine body, Debra finds herself falling for Nick, and Nick unexpectedly does the same with her. A secret concerning Jeffrey threatens their newfound romance.

THE WEDDING DATE is well-made and performed, so it may, sadly, find a large audience at theaters and on DVD, but, its values are warped by its immoral pagan worldview about sex and romance. The movie attaches a modicum of moral scandal concerning Nick’s evil vocation, but not enough, even though Nick does make a decision at one point to give up his job for love of Kat. There are also some other positive moral elements, including a redemptive element of forgiveness, during the final scenes set around a planned church wedding. Despite this, the movie is, on the whole, too sleazy to recommend. In fact, the greatest moral blunder the movie castigates is sexual betrayal rather than the violation of Jesus Christ’s commands of sexual purity. This immoral theme is perfectly in keeping with the movie’s offensive pagan worldview.

THE WEDDING DATE is somewhat reminiscent of the immoral values and storyline in the hit movie PRETTY WOMAN, which put Julia Roberts on the map as a big movie star. Hopefully, the same thing won’t happen for Debra Messing or Dermot Mulroney, until they decide to make some movies and TV programs that are morally uplifting.

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“Love doesn’t come cheap.”

Here’s what the distributor says about their film: “After returning to her parent’s London home for her sister’s wedding, a young woman hires a male-escort to pretend to be her boyfriend when she is forced to re-encounter her ex-fiancé.”

W omen today have so much more responsibility than my Grandmother had in terms of the workplace, being a good role model to other girls, some being single mothers trying to juggle motherhood with a job and being the “Dad” figure too. Stress and performance rule each day.

Then the big concern of STDs and getting across the sensitive issue to young girls that sex is something saved for marriage let alone the moral points involved with casual sex. Everywhere we look we see and hear conflicting messages about sex in general. Girls today run around in low cut jeans and high cut tops with their belly buttons showing. They think it’s cute, but it sends the wrong message to the boys who look on with thoughts in their little heads which are far from cute. Girls are taught that to avoid STDs like AIDS they should plan to have one pardner for life, but then schools pass out condoms and teach the false philosophy of “safe sex.”

Then we send them off to the movies thinking a PG-13 rated romantic comedy is also safe. Just as life has gotten more complicated since Grandma was a girl, so has sending your kids off to the show. “The Wedding Date” is not about a wedding and it is not about a date. To be frank, it’s about sex. Illicit sex, sex with lust, sex with strangers, sex before marriage, sex with a male prostitute and before it’s done this film shows how uncontrolled sex is not love and how it can hurt and ruin the lives of far more people than just the two who are involved in the act.

Kat Ellis (an always beautiful Debra Messing ) has to attend her sister’s wedding in London, has just come off of a seven year live in relationship with her boyfriend Jeff (Jeremy Sheffield), who also will be the Best Man, and Kat doesn’t have a “guest” to attend with her. Because she is so overly concerned with what her family will think of her if she comes without a date, and throw in the concept that she wants her ex boyfriend to get jealous over the fact that she might be more in love with someone else than she was with him, Kat seeks out and secures the services of a hired escort to pose as her new perfect suitor.

Enter Nick Mercer (handsome and alluring Dermot Mulroney ), not just any old escort, but a upper scale male prostitute with a price tag of $6,000 (and that’s before the First Class air fare and any sexual favors). Evidently Kat is so desperate to make a good show for her family and get back at Jeff that she is willing to pay the price for two out of three.

Kat and Nick get off to a nervous introduction and try to get to know one another during the flight to London well enough to fool the wedding guests. As in any romantic comedy Kat’s plans start falling through the moment they arrive at the week long dinners, rehearsals and family pre wedding parties. The first being the fact that her Mother (an always perfect upper crust portrayal by Holland Taylor) allows them to stay in the same room together. When Kat starts to explain to Nick that her Mother will show him to his room Mom announces she has become more “modern” in her thinking, winks at Nick and states, “I am not as small town as my daughter seems to think.”

What ensues next is plenty of funny scenes, lots of fun wedding activities, family high jinks and the usual road taken down concluding in the fact that Kat and Nick are falling in love. It’s “That Girl” meets the male equivalent of “Pretty Woman.”

The problem is that Kat gets so drunk at the bachelorette party that she seduces Nick when she arrives back home, he thinks she meant it and she, in fact doesn’t remember the incident. This hurts Nick, as he starts to realize he’s falling in love with Kat, and that is the top no-no for a male escort, so he then tries to charge her for the sex he already has denied they had. Now that you are completely confused, add the fact that ex boyfriend Jeff is jealous, but not because of Nick. It turns out he is in love with the bride, Kat’s sister Amy (a sweet Amy Adams ) and reveals to Nick that Amy was the reason he and Kat broke up. So everyone in the family knows this dish except for Kat herself, and the lovably unaware Groom, Edward (Jack Devenport from Pirates of the Carribean).

It all comes to a head the day of the wedding, causing much pain, guilt, and feelings of deceit. As the wedding is delayed the characters come together to confess and ask for forgiveness. Edward, in a show of great love and humility forgives Amy for not telling him of her affair with Jeff (who has run away as all bad guys do, never to return)and the Wedding commences with Nick standing in as the new Best Man, everyone tearful, forgiven and happy. As all is ending happily ever after in this modern tale of love-with-the-proper-stranger, it is noted that Nick leaves “the business.” Ah, love conquers all.

Parents should know that this movie includes too strong material for a PG-13. “The Wedding Date” includes brief partial nudity showing the backside of Nick’s character and an uncomfortable scene where it is inferred the Kat character is looking at the penis of the Nick character. There are far too many explicit sexual references (including prostitution, infidelity, jokes about orgasms, the idea that “the best sex is make-up sex,” and a drunken sexual encounter that is supposed to be romantic and implies that sex is what “falling in love” is all about), smoking and a lot of drinking having the characters get drunk and hung over. Then there is the troubling problem of having a light romantic comedy with characters whose behavior is relentlessly unsavory. This gives a sour taste to the purported comedy. Kat’s English cousin is supposed to be delightfully outrageous. But raunchy is not the same thing as outrageous. I was surprised at the content of this movie as it was written and directed by women, I expected less sex and more character depth.

Moving on to profanity, you will not want your kids to hear “sh**” twice, “bull***t” once, “bast**d” once, “a**hole” once, and many explicatives that refer to sex such as “shagging…,” “I’m just screwin’ with ya”, and so on. There are several times the Lord’s name is used in irreverent terms. There are no indications whatsoever that any of these characters were religious in any form.

Also this film sends so many mixed messages on other aspects of life such as being single is miserable, but being single also makes life “hot.” Kat’s character exclaims “I feel like crap, but I wanna look hot doing it!” Discuss that being single can be a blessing and is a choice that Paul made in order to serve The Lord with all his heart. When asked why Nick would be paid to go to many funerals, but that this was his first paid wedding, he (referring to the funerals) laments “…imagine facing that alone.” I say, imagine facing that with God at your side.

The redeeming aspects of “The Wedding Date” are that the characters do finally come to honest terms with their infidelities and hurtful conduct. When Edward leaves the bachelor party because he couldn’t stand watching any other woman except for the one he loves, especially on the eve of his wedding, Nick commends his behavior by reassuring Edward that a man in love doesn’t want a prostitute or any other woman besides. When Nick knows he is in love with Kat, he gives all the money back she has paid him, knowing it was wrong to accept it in the first place. Amy uses much courage to confess to Kat of her infidelity with Jeff, then in humility asks for Kat’s forgiveness. The family showed genuine love, and healing was attributed to these characters because of that love. It is a disadvantage that the love wasn’t taken a level further and shown in a Christ-like manner. It would have made so much more sense.

Ephesians 5:18 tells us not to be “drunk with wine, wherein is excess,” but to be filled with The Holy Spirit so we understand what the will of The Lord is. First Peter 1:13-17 deals with our conduct by highlighting to “…be sober… as obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance” and to be holy in all manner of conversation. Finally Paul addressed the immoral conduct of the Corinthians in his day and what he pleaded with them is just as profound today. I Corinthians 6:18-20 gives all humanity this beautiful and relevant rule to live by, “Flee fornication . Every sin that a man does is without the body; but he that commits fornication sins against his own body… do you not know that your body is the Temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you?…You are God’s and you are not your own!…For you were bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s!”

If your children happen across this film before you can pre-screen it, please discuss in depth the will of God for their lives, their bodies and what true unconditional love is really all about. There is so much confusion in the world today over this issue. Let them know they don’t have to follow the way of the world and if temptation comes that God has promised to create in them a new heart and a steadfast spirit and will sustain them and give them strength and hope.

Violence: Minor / Profanity: Moderate / Sex/Nudity: Heavy

The Wedding Date

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Year : 2005

Run time : 90 mins

In Theaters : Friday 4th February 2005

Box Office USA : $32.0M

Box Office Worldwide : $47.2M

Budget : $15M

Distributed by : Universal Pictures

Production compaines : 26 Films

Contactmusic.com : 1 / 5

Rotten Tomatoes : 10% Fresh: 14 Rotten: 123

IMDB : 6.0 / 10

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Director : Clare Kilner

Producer : Nathalie Marciano , Michelle Chydzik , Paul Brooks , Jessica Bendinger

Screenwriter : Dana Fox

Starring : Debra Messing as Kat Ellis, Dermot Mulroney as Nick Mercer, Amy Adams as Amy, Jack Davenport as Edward Fletcher-Wooten, Jeremy Sheffield as Jeffrey, Peter Egan as Victor Ellis, Sarah Parish as TJ, Amy Adams as Amy, Holland Taylor as Bunny

Also starring : Nathalie Marciano , Michelle Chydzik , Paul Brooks , Jessica Bendinger , Dana Fox

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Sunday night’s episode of House of the Dragon opens on an old feud. A group of Brackens and a group of Blackwoods argue over the border of their lands. One side has committed to Rhaenyra’s cause; the other, to Aegon’s. It seems likely that the only reason they’re supporting different sides is out of spite. Hotter heads prevail when it comes to a kingdom on the precipice of war, even if no bloodshed is as appalling to the gods as that of kin slaying kin.

This petty squabble ends with words and shoving. One young man draws his sword. Then the scene cuts to sometime later and the same field littered with the corpses of both Houses as far as the eye can see. The countryside is slick with blood and wreckage. The old windmill has seen better days.

So the first real battle of the Dance of Dragons has finally taken place, albeit offscreen (I think to great effect). It won’t be the last. It seems that much of Season 2, or at least its first half, will be devoted to the early rumblings of war rather than to the war itself, and to the cooler heads’ attempting to call the whole thing off. Daemon (Matt Smith) and Aemond (Ewan Mitchell) want war, clearly, but what about Rhaenyra (Emma D’Arcy) and Allicent (Olivia Cooke)?

Allicent and Rhaenyra

Rhaenyra discusses the coming bloodshed with her aunt, Rhaenys (Eve Best) and decides she must go to King’s Landing to meet with Allicent face-to-face. She asks Mysaria (Sonoya Mizuno) for help, and the White Worm gives her the one location the Queen Dowager visits without anyone watching: The Great Sept, where she goes to light candles and say her prayers.

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Rhaenyra disguises herself as a nun and makes her way to the Sept where she finds Allicent and kneels beside her, much to her once-friend’s shock. She pleads with Allicent to do whatever she can to avoid war, and then the conversation turns to what exactly King Viserys I said in his dying moments. It’s a pretty big revelation to both of them when it turns out he was discussing “the prince that was promised” and the Song of Ice and Fire—not Aegon his son at all. But Allicent, though clearly shaken, says it’s too late. War is coming and there’s nothing she can—or will—do about it.

Allow me a moment to complain, not about this show but about Game Of Thrones. I’m reminded of just how desperately silly the ending was and the many foibles made especially in Season 8. I maintain, though I’m not sure George R.R. Martin will ever finish his books to prove me right, that Jon Snow is the Song of Ice and Fire. He is the prince that was promised—not Daenerys, as the show kept hinting at, stupidly, before making it clear she was anything but.

In fact, the show simply discarded all prophecy as gracelessly and clumsily as possible. Jon didn’t fight and kill the Night King. Arya swooped in at the 11th hour and managed that because the show gave her massive superpowers for no good reason whatsoever, making her far, far less interesting as a character in the process.

Then Jon kills Dany and is exiled, while Bran of all people becomes king! Jon was the heir to the Iron Throne! He was the blood of Stark (ice) and Targaryen (fire)! House of the Dragon makes it clear that this prophecy is a big enough deal to include in a prequel but it just reminds me of how badly Thrones screwed up.

Anyways . . . Rhaenyra’s attempt to avoid war was only a half-baked one at best. She never offered Allicent anything as a bargaining chip. All she did is insist that she was the rightful heir, that her father loved her and that Allicent was mistaken. Did she hope that simply stating her belief about the throne over again would somehow convince the Queen Dowager, and that she would then—empty-handed—be able to avert war? Convince Aegon to what—give up the throne? There was a time for that, when Aegon clearly didn’t want it, but that ship has sailed.

A few other very significant things happened this episode. Rhaenyra sends her youngest boys away with Rhaena (Phoebe Campbell) Daemon’s daughter and younger sister to Beala, to go to the Vale. Rhaena, as you may recall, is the one family member who still doesn’t have her own dragon. This makes her feel very left out of all the fun, especially the “fly a dragon around patrolling for enemies” fun. But along with the children, Rhaenyra sends Rhaena off with a clutch of unhatched dragon eggs. This mollifies her to some degree.

(It turns out that these are, indeed, Dany’s eggs in Game Of Thrones, though this is a major departure from Martin’s Fire and Blood. I go into further depth in this piece on how this is different from the book and what it means).

Daemon, meanwhile, makes his way to a very wet, very dreary and mostly unoccupied Harrenhal where he meets with the steward, Ser Simon Strong (Simon Russell Beale) and takes up residence, eager to raise armies and rebuild the massive fortress. The Riverlands, it appears, are the key to the entire war and both Team Green and Team Black are making their preparations to bring the lords of the Riverlands to their respective sides. Old Grover Tully is ancient and infirm, however, and his bannermen fractious and unruly as a result.

At this dark castle, Daemon has a strange vision of a young Rhaenyra—Milly Alcock’s first appearance on the show since the first half of Season 1 and quite a surprise!—sewing young prince Jaehaerys’s head back on.

Side-note: I love you, George R.R. Martin, but if you had made these names easier to spell, you might have finished Winds of Winter by now. Sigh.

Daemon in Harrenhal

This is not a normal run-of-the-windmill vision, but one that a witch lends the taciturn prince—er, my pardon, your Grace— and mark my words, this particular witch will have a much larger part to play as this story progresses. “You will die in this castle,” she tells Daemon. Witches are always prophesying the dourest things in Westeros.

I don’t think the show conveys this well, but Daemon effectively just captured Harrenhal for Team Black without shedding a drop of blood. Landing his dragon, Caraxes, on the roof certainly helped. Strong’s dislike of his relative, Larys Strong (Matthew Needham) doesn’t hurt. Larys, meanwhile, becomes Master of Whispers this same episode, thanks to his endless good advice for young Aegon II (Tom Glynn-Carney).

We also meet two other significant new characters. The first is Gwayne Hightower (Freddie Fox of Slow Horses who plays this type of character too well) Alicent’s brother who has apparently spent all this time in Oldtown rather than at court. I’d say he showed up offscreen in the past but since he’s only first introduced to Ser Criston Cole (Fabien Frankel) this episode, I suppose he’s just never been to King’s Landing before. He comes across as arrogant and spoiled, and even the Lord Commander is irritated with him—and I hate agreeing with the Dornishman about anything!

Ser Criston Cole

Speaking of Cole, he’s off with an army to the Riverlands and Harrenhal. He’s tired of all the talk, of all the hand-wringing. He wants action, and so he takes action. Ser Gwayne accompanies him and as they make their way west, Gwayne and his retainers leave the body of the army to find a nearby inn. Cole follows, annoyed at the young knight’s lackadaisical nonsense, and it’s at this point, in an open field, that he spots the dragon high above.

He urges his mount forward and tells the others to ride hard for the trees. Up in the sky, Baela (Bethany Antonia) is on her dragon, Moondancer. She spots the glint of armor and descends as the knights gallop for their lives. Later, we learn that she was close enough to identify Criston Cole, though the Hand and his men do make it into the cover of the forest before any harm can come to them, and Gwayne expresses his gratitude, earning the Lord Commander another loyalist.

The other new character we meet in this episode identifies himself as a Dragonseed—that is, a Targaryen or Valyrian (including House Velaryon) bastard fathered in the Blackwater Bay region. In this series and in Martin’s Fire and Blood, these include (and yes, this is spoilery but I think it will help to understand):

Hugh Hammer (Kieran Bew) the blacksmith we’ve met earlier this season;
Addam (Clinton Liberty) and his younger brother, Alyn of Hull (Abubakar Salim) both Velaryon bastards, though their parentage remains in doubt.
Ulf White (Tom Bennett) the man we meet at the brothel tavern in this latest episode, though we spotted him by the ratcatcher gallows last week. He exposits some on his lineage, which is why I thought it worth expounding upon in this post.

There are others we haven’t met yet who I will leave off the list, but these will all be very important characters as the war unfolds thanks to their unique lineage even as bastards. We also hear, once again, about young Daeron and his dragon Tessarion. Alicent’s youngest has yet to show his cherubic face on House of the Dragon, but he’s on his way.

In that same tavern that very same night, two brothers come to visit. One is loudmouthed and obnoxious; the other is cool as a cucumber. Neither really ought to be there.

We learn earlier that Aegon has replaced the dead Kingsguard with his lackeys, showing all the wisdom and foresight of a lump of coal. None of these slouching ingrates appear to have much training or discipline, another annoyance for Criston Cole, who I’m almost starting to feel empathy toward (yuck). As they dress him for battle—he insists on following after Cole’s army against the wishes of the Small Council—they mention going out to the brothels with a squire who has yet to lose his virginity. “But you swore vows of chastity,” Aegon tells them, sternly. They laugh at first, but are quickly quiet as their king seems to be totally serious. (This is just after Larys convinces the king not to go to battle, after all, through some clever little lies that play right into Aegon’s lack of self-confidence).

Perhaps he was serious about those vows, but hours later we see him stumble into the brothel drunk as a skunk, laughing and shouting, like some scrawny young Robert Baratheon. Perhaps he’s more like Robert than he is Joffrey, but either way he’s hardly acting the part of king, or grieving father. He finds his brother, Aemond, laying on the lap of the older prostitute and mocks him mercilessly. Aemond ends up leaving, a look of grim determination on his face, but not before we see him completely nude. It’s not the only somewhat shocking bit of nudity we get in this scene, as there’s a bit of (dare I say unnecessary) felatio just before. It’s almost as though HBO is trying to balance the scales when it comes to male and female anatomy shown across Game Of Thrones and House Of The Dragon. It’s perhaps mildly ironic that this season of The Boys is showing so much full-frontal male nudity at the same exact time.

In any case, lots and lots of moving pieces and characters both great and small this episode. Nothing quite so violent and shocking as the Blood and Cheese incident, or the battle of the Cargyll twins, Erryk and Arryk, but still a terrific episode that continues to build, however slowly, toward all-out war. It appears next week’s episode is called A Dance Of Dragons which suggests that the war will kick off in earnest soon enough.

A Council of War

Scattered Thoughts:

The exchange between Alicent and poor Helaena (Phia Saban) was very interesting, especially when the daughter tells her mother she forgives her. “What?” Alicent asks, taken aback. “I forgive you,” Helaena says again, clearly of the mind that it needs no explanation.
We see Seasmoke, Laenor’s dragon, and wonder “Who will claim this majestic beast as their own?” Hint: We’ve already met the character, but only just this season.
I already miss Rhys Ifans even if Otto Hightower is a right bastard. Other characters I miss: Graham McTavish’s Ser Harrold and King Viserys I, played so perfectly by Paddy Considine.
Both Aegon’s Small Council and Rhaenyra’s annoy me. I suppose they’re meant to since they annoy both Aegon and Rhaenyra to no end. The gall of Rhaenyra’s lords trying to shuffle her off to “safety” so they can lead the war planning. Then again, I’m not sure Rhaenyra is really up to the task, either.
I’ll add more scattered thoughts as they come to me.

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