by its title and by its whole concept. Its a hybrid of a movie within a movie that’s essentially a video of the wedding from hell. Alison the bride has got cold feet on the day she is about to marry Phil, who has got himself into serious debt to give her the extravagant wedding that she has planned with the most meticulous details. As friends and family have arrived, and the Hotel will not give them a refund, she persuades hapless Phil to go along with the wedding as planned, but not to sign the wedding certificate so they will remain single.Phil agrees to the sham as he was planning to present her with a surprise gift of her dream house at the Reception and that he hopes will make her change her mind, the one snag is that the wedding budget has swallowed up the deposit he had put aside, and if he cannot find some kind soul to cough up some ready cash, he will lose the house anyway.
The production is very much a family affair as director and co-writer Victor Quinaz plays the videographer on screen, and his younger brother Philip, another co-writer plays Phil the bridegroom. Victor was actually a wedding videographer in real life for a couple of years, and Philip actually got married a month after this movie was shot : I hope though its not based too closely on their own experiences. Like many low-budget indie productions the cast and crew are peppered with the brothers friends and mates who have collaborated with them before on other projects, which gives a feeling of warm camaraderie to the piece.It’s a sweet and charming little comedy but it has far more energy and enthusiasm than actual real laugh-out-loud moments. And with a conventional rom-com happy ending, you are left wondering what the fuss was all about anyway.
Labels: 2013, romantic comedy
