Love, Weddings & Other Disasters

Love, Weddings & Other Disasters
Official poster
Directed byDennis Dugan
Screenplay byDennis Dugan
Story by
Produced by
  • Nadine de Barros
  • Martin Metz
  • Adrian Politowski
  • Michael Rachmil
  • Dan Reardon
Starring
CinematographyNick Remy Matthews
Edited byJulie Garces
Music byNoah Needleman
Keaton Simons
Production
companies
  • Align Pictures
  • Fortitude International
Distributed bySaban Films
Release date
  • December 4, 2020 (2020-12-04)
Running time
96 minutes[1][2]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Box office$922,586[1]

Love, Weddings & Other Disasters is a 2020 American romantic comedy film written and directed by Dennis Dugan, from a story by Dugan, Eileen Conn and Larry Miller. It stars Diane Keaton, Jeremy Irons, Maggie Grace, Diego Boneta and Andrew Bachelor.

It was released on December 4, 2020, by Saban Films and was a critical and commercial failure.

Plot

Jessie a florist gets dumped mid-parachute jump, she ends up dropping her ex-boyfriend into a lake next to a wedding, which she ends up crashing into, unable to control her parachute. Jessie goes viral and is dubbed "the wedding trasher". Jessie is later unexpectedly hired to be a wedding planner by the modern fiancé Liz of Robert, a man who is running for mayor, and create a fun party atmosphere for the reception.

Bride Liz and groom Robert have conflicting ideas on the wedding-the bride wants a modern wedding with a band and a party, the groom wants a traditional wedding with a string quartet. The groom ends up hiring equally perfectionist and demanding wedding planner Lawrence Phillips, who Jessie crashed into with her electric scooter. The two wedding planners start to butt heads with their different views.

Lawrence Phillips, a perfectionist OCD planner who gets set up on an impromptu blind date with a woman who is actually blind. Lawerence is a widower who hasn't been on a date in 5 years and has become grumpy and bitter, unable to laugh. Sarah the blind women opens Lawrence to new things although he keeps messing up. He tries very hard even putting a blindfold on to experience life as she does. Lawrence starts to become happy and even nice.

The groom's brother Jimmy is the polar opposite of his brother. Jimmy is a gambler and in a large amount of debt with some dangerous people. Jimmy goes on a TV show called Crash Couples to win money and ends up being chained together for 24 hours while being filmed with a stripper called Olga, who is also trying to win money to get away from her life. Robert supports his brother on the TV show and still wants him in the wedding, although he doesn't understand why he didn't tell him about the debt. Jimmy and Olga ending up winning the Crash Couple competition with some help from Olga's Mafia connections, who have become their business partners.

Robert's chief of staff doesn't agree with the wedding and wants a more traditional affair, something for Robert to go up in points in the press even following Ritchie to meet his Cinderella on TV unfortunately she doesn't show as he helped Robert get out of traffic and to his wedding his invited to the wedding where he bumps in to his Cinderella.

High school friends Mack and Lenny are in a band together, and start having tension with each other when Lenny gets a girlfriend Yoni. Jessie tries to hire them and arm wrestles Mack to get them to play at Liz and Robert's Wedding. Mack and Lenny end up agreeing to do the wedding. However things go down hill when Lenny invites his girlfriend Yoni to play with the band and they secretly make a demo without telling Mack. The band breaks up so Jessie asks the buskers in the park across the street to help. When Mack asks Jessie out, she says "no" at first, but they start to develop feelings for each other.

A local tour guide Captain Ritchie ends up on TV for his funny and original tours. Ritchie searches for his "Cinderella," a woman who had a tattoo of a glass slipper on her neck. Ritchie never saw her again after meeting her on a tour.

Throughout the whole movie, two buskers start gradually playing together.

Cast

Production

In August 2019, it was announced Diane Keaton, Jeremy Irons, Diego Boneta, JinJoo Lee, Jesse McCartney and Veronica Ferres had joined the cast of the film, with Dennis Dugan directing from a screenplay he wrote, alongside Eileen Conn and Larry Miller.[3] In September 2019, Todd Stashwick, Dennis Staroselsky, Maggie Grace, Caroline Portu and Melinda Hill joined the cast of the film.[4][5][6] In October 2019, Andrew Bachelor joined the cast of the film.[7] Also joining were Elle King and Keaton Simons.

Principal photography began in September 2019.[8] Filming took place in Boston, including in the Public Garden[8] and various locations in South Boston.[9]

Release

In August 2020, Saban Films acquired distribution rights to the film[10] and set its release in US theaters for December 4, 2020.[11] The same day it was released on VOD by Lionsgate Home Entertainment.[12][2]

Reception

Box office

Love, Weddings & Other Disasters grossed $0 in the United States and Canada,[12] and a worldwide total of $922,586.[1]

Critical response

The film was panned by critics. On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a 3% approval rating based on 29 reviews, with an average rating of 2.8/10. The website's critics consensus reads: "A romantic comedy only in the loosest sense, Love, Weddings & Other Disasters offers a sobering reminder that even stars like Diane Keaton and Jeremy Irons occasionally do unpleasant things to pay the bills."[2] On Metacritic, the film holds a rating of 11 out of 100, based on seven critics, indicating "overwhelming dislike".[13]

References

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