The Wedding Planner

PG-13

1/26/20011h 43m

Theatrical Release (US)

~ A romantic comedy about love, destiny and other events you just can't plan for. ~

Overview:

San Francisco's premiere wedding planner, Mary Fiore is rescued from an accident by the man of her dreams, pediatrician Steve Edison, only to find he is the fiancé of her latest client. As Mary continues making their wedding arrangements, she and Steve are put into a string of uncomfortable situations that force them to face their mutual attraction.

Director:

Adam Shankman

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$35,000,000.00

Revenue:

$94,700,000.00

Key words:

san francisco, california
arranged marriage
wedding planner
romcom
doctor
wedding
heiress
childhood friends
chance meeting
damsel in distress
heroic rescue
pediatrician
single woman
italian immigrant
organized
new money
in love with someone's man
fake fiancé
immigrant parents

Cast

Jennifer Lopez

~ as ~

Mary Fiore

Matthew McConaughey

~ as ~

Steve Edison

Justin Chambers

~ as ~

Massimo

Joanna Gleason

~ as ~

Mrs. Donolly

Lou Myers

~ as ~

Burt Weinberg

Kathy Najimy

~ as ~

Geri

Charles Kimbrough

~ as ~

Mr. Donolly

Judy Greer

~ as ~

Penny

Bridgette Wilson-Sampras

~ as ~

Fran Donolly

Alex Rocco

~ as ~

Salvatore

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Reviews (1)

Kamurai
Written 5 year(s) ago
4
Underwhelming watch, probably won't watch again, and can't honestly recommend.

I think my biggest problems with this are that I can't honestly appreciate Matthew McConaughey or Bridgette Wilson-Sampras despite the quality of their acting: it's like a really well made pie in a flavor you don't like. As much as I like Jennifer Lopez as an actor, we start on the end of a movie I'd rather see with Bree Turner, and I feel like I would have rather seen Judy Greer in the lead, she seems about as Italian as Jennifer Lopez.

I understand when the meet-cute is a life-threatening situation where adrenaline causes chemical confusion, but this is sort of a head injury causes an almost "love at first sight" cliche, but mixed with an "unavailable romance" cliche.

Once we establish that she loves weddings and it's important to her for some reason, it's a lot of him (not) pursuing her because he's getting married, and her trying to be respectful, but honest.

The movie highlights more societal problems for people that can afford big weddings, or, in short, there is more dumb than funny in this.

I'm not even going to say this is a bad movie, but it's not impressive, and just not for me.