Director Paul Weidland
First, I must mention that I absolutely love romantic comedies never mind the fact that you know how they are going to end.
Tom (Patrick Dempsey) and Hannah (Michelle Monaghan) meet as students by accident when he is looking for her roommate and winds up in the wrong bed. Hannah is described as a "nerd" but actually, Michelle Monaghan is too archetypically beautiful to be a convincing nerd.
Tom is the type of person who cannot resist beautiful women. Actually all straight men are like that in my experience, the difference is Tom can get them. He has fun with women, leaves them and finds new one, using some silly rule to get rid of the girl from the night before. He says things like, "I don't date two nights in a row" or something like that. He also enjoys Hannah's company; they laugh, talk and share their lives with each other, in detail. When Tom's father marries for the sixth time, Hannah goes to the wedding with him.
Then they spend six Sundays apart, because Hannah is in Scotland working. Conveniently phone connections are bad, which means they cannot keep in touch. When she comes back, Hannah has great news 's she is going to get married in two weeks. For Tom, who has realized what Hannah means to him whilst she was away, that is not so good news after all. She makes him maid of honor and that sets up the premise. He will do his best to ruin the wedding, whilst she remains blithely unaware of his growing feelings for her.
I had a couple of problems with the scenario; though the couple obviously seem to be into each other, they don't actually have much in common and fiance Colin (Kevin McKidd), Hannah's prospective husband is a bit alright; good looking, rugged, charming and a duke for heaven's sake.
Other than that, the film was well acted and well structured. It would have been hard to mess things up it was so formulaic. A few comic situations added a little spark. I really started to laugh when Tom and Hannah went to a priest. When the priest realized Hannah and Tom aren't going to marry, he said: "There are many gays and lesbians in our parish."
Still I could not get rid of the feeling that the story is familiar. Was it a mixture of other films I have seen or books I have read? I have not figured it out yet, how many different love stories can you make up anyway, right?
Now showing in Estonia
