Destination Wedding

Destination Wedding
Theatrical release poster
Directed by Victor Levin
Produced by
Written by Victor Levin
Starring
Music by William Ross
Cinematography Giorgio Scali
Edited by Matt Maddox
Production
company
  • Sunshine Pictures
  • Two Camel Films
  • The Fyzz Facility[1]
Distributed by Regatta
Release date
  • August 31, 2018 (2018-08-31)
Running time
 85 minutes[2]
Country United States
Language English
Box office $556,641

Destination Wedding[lower-alpha 1] is a 2018 American romantic comedy film written and directed by Victor Levin, and stars Winona Ryder and Keanu Reeves[3][4] as two strangers who turn out to be attending the same wedding in San Luis Obispo.

It was theatrically released in the United States on August 31, 2018, by Regatta. The film received mixed reviews from critics.

Synopsis

Lindsay and Frank are two strangers invited to Frank's brother's wedding in Paso Robles, California. While there, they get to know that they are more than strangers and share an equal level of irritableness and grief towards the world. However, under the thick cloud of exasperation the hopeless romantics slowly fall for each other.

Cast

Production

Production wrapped in central California in August 2017.[4]

Release

In November 2017, Aviron Pictures acquired U.S. distribution rights to the film, releasing it under their Regatta banner.[5] It was released on August 31, 2018.[6]

Reception

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 39% based on 38 reviews, with an average rating of 5.5/10.[7]

Micheal Rechtshaffen of The Los Angeles Times panned the film calling it "a stubbornly unfunny 86 minutes that feels a lot longer."[8] Jeanette Catsoulis of The New York Times called the film "torture" adding "this would-be romantic comedy is grating, cheap-looking and a mighty drag: it also turns two seasoned, likable actors into characters you’ll want to throttle long before the credits roll."[9] Leah Greenblatt of Entertainment Weekly gave the film a C+ saying the script "comes on like a rom-com David Mamet freight train; its verbal turns are so wildly overwritten that all the actors can really do is hold on to the wheel well, racing through reams of ratatat dialogue."[10]

More positively, Kate Erbland of Indiewire gave the film a B saying "Maybe this is what falling in love is like, and it’s high time that rom-coms had the space for weirdos like these."[11] Benjamin Lee of The Guardian gave the film three out of five stars admitting that "some of the dialogue does border on overwritten...there’s enough wit and finely observed pedantry to make up for the occasional indulgence." Of the film's stars Lee said "The pair share an easy, spiky chemistry and Reeves in particular shows himself to be surprisingly skilled at delivering such bile-filled dialogue."[12]

Notes

  1. ↑ Credited onscreen as Destination Wedding, or A Narcissist Can't Die Because Then the Entire World Would End

References

  1. ↑ Mitchell, Robert (30 August 2017). "Keanu Reeves, Winona Ryder Reunite for 'Destination Wedding'". Variety. Retrieved May 28, 2018.
  2. ↑ "Destination Wedding". AMC Theatres. Retrieved August 26, 2018.
  3. ↑ "Keanu Reeves, Winona Ryder Team Up for 'Destination Wedding'". hollywoodreporter.com. Retrieved 31 August 2017.
  4. 1 2 Mitchell, Robert (30 August 2017). "Keanu Reeves, Winona Ryder Reunite for 'Destination Wedding'". Variety. Retrieved 31 August 2017.
  5. ↑ Keslassy, Elsa (November 27, 2017). "Aviron Pictures Acquires 'Destination Wedding' With Keanu Reeves, Winona Ryder". Variety. Retrieved September 2, 2018.
  6. ↑ Barfield, Charles (May 16, 2018). "'Destination Wedding' Trailer: Keanu Reeves And Winona Ryder Awkwardly Fall In Love In New Rom-Com". The Playlist. Retrieved September 2, 2018.
  7. ↑ Destination Wedding at Rotten Tomatoes
  8. ↑ Rechtshaffen, Michael (August 30, 2018). "Review: Dismal Keanu Reeves-Winona Ryder pairing in 'Destination Wedding' dooms Keanona from ever being a thing". The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved August 30, 2018.
  9. ↑ Catsoulis, Jeanette (August 30, 2018). "Review: This 'Destination Wedding' Does No One Any Favors". The New York Times. Retrieved August 30, 2018.
  10. ↑ Greenblatt, Leah (August 30, 2018). "Winona Ryder and Keanu Reeves are better than Destination Wedding deserves: EW review". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved August 30, 2018.
  11. ↑ Erbland, Kate (August 30, 2018). "'Destination Wedding' Review: Keanu Reeves and Winona Ryder, Reinvented as Adorable Misanthropes". Indiewire. Retrieved August 30, 2018.
  12. ↑ Lee, Benjamin (August 30, 2018). "Destination Wedding review – Keanu and Winona reunite for mean-spirited romcom". The Guardian. Retrieved August 30, 2018.


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