2015 · comedy
The Wedding Ringer
Directed by Jeremy Garelick1h 41m2015
Doug Harris is a loveable but socially awkward groom-to-be with a problem: he has no best man. With less than two weeks to go until he marries the girl of his dreams, Doug is referred to Jimmy Callahan, owner and CEO of Best Man, Inc., a company that provides flattering best men for socially challenged guys in need. What ensues is a hilarious wedding charade as they try to pull off the big con, and an unexpected budding bromance between Doug and his fake best man Jimmy.
Our read: The Wedding Ringer (2015) reads as a warm, kinetic, inventive comedy entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, measured comedy, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- warm
- brisk
- inventive
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