Made of Honor
by Paul Weiland
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Actor: Chris Messina, Kadeem Hardison, Kevin McKidd, Michelle Monaghan, Patrick DempseyDirector: Paul Weiland
Brand: Sony
Producer: Aaron Kaplan
Producer: Amanda Lewis
Producer: Callum Greene
Producer: Marty Adelstein
Writer: Adam Sztykiel
Writer: Deborah Kaplan
Writer: Harry Elfont
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); French (Dubbed)
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 101 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-09-16
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Sony Pictures
Movie Reviews of Made of Honor
Movie Review: Moderately entertaining and amusing romantic comedy
Summary: 4 Stars
As romantic comedies go, this is definately one of the more amusing that I have seen over the past year or so. Patrick Dempsey proves that he can handle a very different character to "McDreamy" (Doctor Jonathan Shepherd) from "Gray's Anatomy" and Michelle Monahan is beautiful and charming as the heroine.
The film begins with a student party, during which Tom, (Dempsey) a senior year student who has seduced half the female students at the University, meets a girl called Hannah in the most embarrassing circumstances imaginable when he accidentally gets into the wrong bed. Despite this dreadful introduction, they become best friends, in a completely platonic way.
The story resumes ten years later, in New York. Although he has remained a serial womaniser who is astonishingly successful in charming every other girl he takes a fancy to into bed, for relationships which are about sex and nothing else, Tom's friendship with Hannah has become part of the bedrock of both their lives but appears to have remained entirely platonic.
The first hint that the relationship between Tom and Hannah might not be quite as platonic as they both think comes when he persuades her to come with him to his father's sixth wedding: Tom Senior, a wealthy man in his sixties, is marrying a beautiful girl of 25 (e.g. about five years younger than his son.) During a series of silly events which I won't describe to avoid spoiling the story, the viewer realises that both friends mean more to each other then they are prepared to admit even to themselves.
Then Hannah has to go to Scotland for six weeks on business, and while there she is swept off her feet by Colin (Kevin McKidd), handsome heir to a family of dour highland aristocrats who are even richer than Tom's father. Returning to New York with Colin, Hannah tells Tom that she is getting married to Colin in a fortnight, in Scotland. And as he is her best friend, she wants him to be her "maid of honour".
This comes just as Tom has finally realised that he is in love with Hannah, and presents him with a dilemma: does he support his best friend in her choice of life partner, or use the position to try to persuade her to marry him instead?
Most people will find the shenanigans which follow to be highly amusing.
One warning - the film takes the mickey out of every cliche about Scotland from an American perspective in a way which patriotic Scots - and for that matter, some other Brits, and possibly even Scots-Americans - may find highly irritating.
If you are not too put off by this, and by one or two highly predictable stock Hollywood RomCom chiches, you will probably enjoy "Made of Honour" although it might not have much repeat entertainment value. Perhaps a film to rent, and watch once, rather than one to buy.
Summary of Made of Honor
Tom loves his life. Until he realizes he also loves his best friend hannah. But when hannah gets engaged to a dashing scotsman & asks him to be her maid of honor tom faces hostile bridesmaids bridal showers & bad hair days all in an effort to pull off the perfect wedding - and steal the bride! Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 09/16/2008 Starring: Patrick Dempsey Michelle Monaghan Run time: 101 minutes Rating: Pg13Patrick Dempsey makes his full transition to romantic-comedy stardom in Made of Honor, flashing those winning dimples and twinkly baby blues to full fetching effect. The camera truly loves him, and his considerable affable charm calls to mind early Hugh Grant, winsome even in utter confusion. Dempsey plays Tom, a nice guy but a serial dater with a girlfriend in every zip code of New York; Michelle Monaghan is Hannah, Tom's BFF since college, who's decided she wants marriage and family. When she becomes unexpectedly engaged to Colin (Journeyman's Kevin McKidd, rather McDreamy himself), Tom realizes what the viewer's known all along--that Hannah is in fact his dream woman. It's When Harry Met Sally... meets My Best Friend's Wedding--but thankfully, Dempsey's Tom is far more sympathetic than Julia Roberts' snide schemer. The plot isn't exactly full of surprises, but the cast--and their amazing chemistry--are so winning that the film makes for the perfect date movie. Not only are all three leads charming in their own way, but the rich cinematography manages to make both Manhattan and the Scottish countryside look like glorious edens, one urban, one windswept. Monaghan is a revelation, quietly lovely as a young Carla Bruni, but with a flinty gumption that makes her all the more appealing. The supporting cast is rich, too, especially Sydney Pollack as Tom's serially marrying dad. (At his dad's fifth--or is it sixth?--wedding, Tom's new arm-candy "stepmom" gets tipsy and overly affectionate with guests as her new husband looks on fondly: "Ah... drunk as the night I first met her.") But at the core of the film are its big heart, and the connection between Tom and Hannah, deep and wide whether they end up just best friends or more. And the delight for viewers is knowing they'll be just as glowy either way.-- A.T. Hurley
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