The Wedding Date

In a mix of My Best Friend's Wedding and Pretty Woman, Debra Messing's first starring role is The Wedding Date, a pretty safe but still fun debut, that despite originaly going direct to video, deserves to be getting this release in theatres.

Messing stars as Kat, a single woman going to London for her sister's wedding, who decides to hire a male escort to go with her because she'll have to face her ex-fiancee who dumped her two years ago, and it's now the best man at the wedding. The male escort is non other than Dermot Mulroney who played the best friend about to get married in My Best Friend's Wedding.

As a huge Julia Roberts fan, and having really loved My Best Friend's Wedding, I have to give Debra Messing big thumps up for her work here. She was really good. Funny, adorable and cute, and even going further than many other actresses when it comes to nudity, she has two (almost) nude scenes here with a quick glimpse of a nipple in one the scenes.
The rest of the cast was good too starting with Mulroney who apparently female audiences are really loving. Holland Taylor as Kat's mom Bunny and Sarah Parish as best friend TJ were very brought most of the comedy bits.
The only one that was kind of distracting with her acting was Amy Adams as Kat's soon to be married sister Amy. I really liked her in Catch Me if You Can a few years ago but she wasn't very good here.

Overall, a good romantic that took some ideas (and sometimes copied scenes) from classics of the genre and made it work, specially because of the very likeable Debra Messing who has a very good start, and should keep doing it.