The Wedding Date

Kat Ellis is a single New Yorker who has to travel to London for her younger sister Amy's wedding. The trip becomes harder to face when she learns that her former fiancé, Jeffrey, who ended their relationship without explanation, will be the best man. Rather than arrive alone and spend the celebration dodging awkward questions, Kat hires Nick Mercer, a professional male escort, to pose as her devoted boyfriend in front of her family and her ex.

The film was directed by Clare Kilner, following her earlier feature How to Deal and preceding American Virgin. Dana Fox wrote the screenplay, and Debra Messing plays Kat, with Dermot Mulroney as Nick, Amy Adams as Amy, Jack Davenport as Edward, Sarah Parish as TJ and Jeremy Sheffield as Jeffrey.

Made for a modest budget, the film earned considerably more than it cost worldwide, a strong return for a romantic comedy of its scale. On IMDb it holds a rating of 6.1 from roughly 59,000 votes, while on TMDB it sits at 6.8 from around 1,300 votes, suggesting viewers respond to it more warmly than the smaller group of critics, whose rating stands at 4 out of 10 across 139 reviews.