The Wedding Year
Rating: 3.5/5
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Director: Robert Luketic
Genre: Romance, Comedy
Release Date: 20.09.2019
Star Cast: Sarah Hyland, Tyler James Williams, Anna Camp, Wanda Sykes, Jenna Dewan, Keith David, Patrick Warburton, Tom Connolly, Grace Helbig, Fred Grandy
Plot: Mara (Sarah Hyland) is an aspiring photographer, living in Los Angeles. She is young, carefree, and is not at all sure if she wants to commit, get married and settle down. Mara has just begun dating Jake (Tyler James Williams), who is a passionate, aspiring chef. Unlike his girlfriend, Jake is right on his toes to get married and settle down.
When wedding invitations start pouring in all of a sudden and Mara has to attend 15 wedding events in a single year, she starts feeling the pressure to make a big decision. Ultimately, the couple embarks on an adventurous year-long journey, which puts their newly started romantic relationship to test. Can Mara make her decision?
Review: Well-known film director Robert Luketic comes back to the big screen with his romance, comedy film The Wedding Year, showcasing a typical modern-day love story. Created for the younger generation, the movie feels amazingly good. The film assures the audience that the forever favourite rom-com genre was not actually dead; it was just enjoying a vacation.
The structure of The Wedding Year takes Jake (Jesse Tyler Williams) and Mara (Sarah Hyland) from cutely meeting on Tinder, the very popular dating app to an array of weddings, which test the fortitude of their relationship to ultimately, the conventional breakup. There’s simply not any deviation from these traditional phases of almost every modern-day relationship. That being said, there is a typical thing to remember about rom-coms – it is more about the engaging journey rather than the destination.
Sarah Hyland gives a dynamic performance and steals all the limelight. Hyland’s relaxed narcissism makes way for charming insecurity and warmth, which works brilliantly in this movie. The pairing of Sarah Hyland and Jesse Tyler Williams looks great. The potential of Williams helps him in working around his bland character. Although Jake isn’t really the most alluring romantic lead, yet he is sufficiently sweet and steady to fit perfectly with the babbler character of Mara.
Robert Luketic seems to be the most suitable director for his new release, The Wedding Year. He exactly knows how to find the way around rom-coms as he has already directed a lot of movies of this genre. The good nature and breeziness of Luketic make the movie a good watch.
Overall, The Wedding Year may not promise absolutely great romance, but it can assure you enough laughs. You can undoubtedly go ahead and book your ticket and snacks for the movie and be assured that you won’t regret watching it on the big screen.
