Single-girl anxiety causes Kat Ellis to hire a male escort to pose as her boyfriend at her sister's wedding. Her plan, an attempt to dupe her ex-fiancé, who dumped her a couple years prior, proves to be her undoing.
Director:
Clare Kilner
Stars:
Dermot Mulroney,
Debra Messing,
Jack Davenport
Mary Fiore is San Francisco's most successful supplier of romance and glamor. She knows all the tricks. She knows all the rules. But then she breaks the most important rule of all: she falls in love with the groom.
Director:
Adam Shankman
Stars:
Jennifer Lopez,
Matthew McConaughey,
Bridgette Wilson-Sampras
A young woman who's reinvented herself as a New York City socialite must return home to Alabama to obtain a divorce from her husband, after seven years of separation.
Director:
Andy Tennant
Stars:
Reese Witherspoon,
Patrick Dempsey,
Josh Lucas
Anna Brady plans to travel to Dublin, Ireland to propose marriage to her boyfriend Jeremy on Leap Day, because, according to Irish tradition, a man who receives a marriage proposal on a leap day must accept it.
After serving as a bridesmaid 27 times, a young woman wrestles with the idea of standing by her sister's side as her sibling marries the man she's secretly in love with.
Director:
Anne Fletcher
Stars:
Katherine Heigl,
James Marsden,
Malin Akerman
The love life of Charlotte is reduced to an endless string of disastrous blind dates, until she meets the perfect man, Kevin. Unfortunately, his merciless mother will do anything to destroy their relationship.
Beth is a young, ambitious New Yorker who is completely unlucky in love. However, on a whirlwind trip to Rome, she impulsively steals some coins from a reputed fountain of love, and is then aggressively pursued by a band of suitors.
Director:
Mark Steven Johnson
Stars:
Kristen Bell,
Josh Duhamel,
Anjelica Huston
Made of Honor revolves around Tom and Hannah, who have been platonic friends for 10 years. He's a serial dater, while she wants marriage but hasn't found Mr. Right. Just as Tom is starting to think that he is relationship material after all, Hannah gets engaged. When she asks Tom to be her "maid" of honor, he reluctantly agrees just so he can attempt to stop the wedding and woo her.Written by
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Busy Philipps had to leave immediately after finishing the wedding scenes in Scotland to get home in time for her own wedding. See more »
Goofs
When Tom and his friend are looking in the window of the bridal shop, Tom sees his reflection in the window with the bridesmaid dress. In the window, Tom's arms and neck are bare. However, he is wearing a polo shirt with long sleeves. See more »
Quotes
Dennis:
I can feel my sperm dying inside of me, one at a time.
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Stop Crying Your Heart Out
Written by Noel Gallagher
Performed by Oasis
Courtesy of Epic Records and Sony BMG Music Entertainment (UK) Ltd.
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As a long-time rom-com fan, I always look forward to a new romantic comedy, even though experience tells me that I will likely be disappointed... First, the good things: the two leads are fine, and have good chemistry together (plus, I'm a Patrick Dempsey fan, which helps!). The "meet-cute" is at least original, and the background story about Tom's father's multiple marriages sheds some light on why Tom (Patrick Dempsey) is the way he is.
Unfortunately, it goes downhill from there. I don't mind a rom-com plot being predictable, but did the film-makers have to trot out every single Hollywood cliché about Scotland? The only redeeming feature is the beautiful cinematography of the Scottish Highlands. Of course, we all know that Scotland consists exclusively of the Highlands, which are peopled by old-time aristocrats living in castles surrounded by their faithful retainers. Naturally, the hero's rival has to own a whiskey distillery (what other industry is there in Scotland?), be even richer than the hero *and* a duke living a 19th-century lifestyle. Also, I'm no expert on Scottish accents, but I know there are many different ones depending on what part of the country you're in, and I suspect (though I don't know) that an aristocrat like Colin would speak quite differently than Kevin McKidd does. I do appreciate that the director insisted on casting actual Scottish actors for the parts.
It also bugged me that the (American) minister who is asked to perform the wedding ceremony is another cliché, but I suppose that's only to be expected - as a rule, Hollywood filmmakers seem not to have attended a church service in decades, and so have only their childhood memories from 30+ years ago to guide them when creating the role of a clergyman.
The third thing that bugged me was the director's penchant for "ugly" visual jokes - "Tiny Shorts Guy", whose weird appearance is direct evidence of his unworthiness as a human being, and the three bridesmaids who are made to look like the 3 ugly stepsisters when they first appear (especially the short, fat one).
Then there are the usual boring conventions - no one has any money worries, the hero doesn't need a job, his father's gold-digger bride can demand $30,000 *a month* in her pre-nuptual agreement, etc.
I was a little surprised that the film made such a big deal of a man being a "maid" of honour. I personally know of at least one man who was his best (female) friend's wedding attendant, and a woman who did the same for her male best friend, and neither wedding raised too many eyebrows (and we're not talking about avant-garde circles here, just regular people).
One more thing: I agree that the film gives Tom and Hannah (Michelle Monaghan)'s friendship rather short shrift before shifting into romance mode, so it's kind of hard to see *why* the two of them are such friends, especially given his sex life.
The trouble is, this could have been a good movie, but the film-makers just didn't want to do the work of coming up with any original ideas. All in all, watch this if you like rom coms or any of the actors involved; otherwise you might like to try something else.
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As a long-time rom-com fan, I always look forward to a new romantic comedy, even though experience tells me that I will likely be disappointed... First, the good things: the two leads are fine, and have good chemistry together (plus, I'm a Patrick Dempsey fan, which helps!). The "meet-cute" is at least original, and the background story about Tom's father's multiple marriages sheds some light on why Tom (Patrick Dempsey) is the way he is.
Unfortunately, it goes downhill from there. I don't mind a rom-com plot being predictable, but did the film-makers have to trot out every single Hollywood cliché about Scotland? The only redeeming feature is the beautiful cinematography of the Scottish Highlands. Of course, we all know that Scotland consists exclusively of the Highlands, which are peopled by old-time aristocrats living in castles surrounded by their faithful retainers. Naturally, the hero's rival has to own a whiskey distillery (what other industry is there in Scotland?), be even richer than the hero *and* a duke living a 19th-century lifestyle. Also, I'm no expert on Scottish accents, but I know there are many different ones depending on what part of the country you're in, and I suspect (though I don't know) that an aristocrat like Colin would speak quite differently than Kevin McKidd does. I do appreciate that the director insisted on casting actual Scottish actors for the parts.
It also bugged me that the (American) minister who is asked to perform the wedding ceremony is another cliché, but I suppose that's only to be expected - as a rule, Hollywood filmmakers seem not to have attended a church service in decades, and so have only their childhood memories from 30+ years ago to guide them when creating the role of a clergyman.
The third thing that bugged me was the director's penchant for "ugly" visual jokes - "Tiny Shorts Guy", whose weird appearance is direct evidence of his unworthiness as a human being, and the three bridesmaids who are made to look like the 3 ugly stepsisters when they first appear (especially the short, fat one).
Then there are the usual boring conventions - no one has any money worries, the hero doesn't need a job, his father's gold-digger bride can demand $30,000 *a month* in her pre-nuptual agreement, etc.
I was a little surprised that the film made such a big deal of a man being a "maid" of honour. I personally know of at least one man who was his best (female) friend's wedding attendant, and a woman who did the same for her male best friend, and neither wedding raised too many eyebrows (and we're not talking about avant-garde circles here, just regular people).
One more thing: I agree that the film gives Tom and Hannah (Michelle Monaghan)'s friendship rather short shrift before shifting into romance mode, so it's kind of hard to see *why* the two of them are such friends, especially given his sex life.
The trouble is, this could have been a good movie, but the film-makers just didn't want to do the work of coming up with any original ideas. All in all, watch this if you like rom coms or any of the actors involved; otherwise you might like to try something else.