Available on Amazon Prime now, this looked to be a light-hearted film but rather turned out to be more of a biting satire of that most "presumptuous of affairs" as they put it, the destination wedding.
Winona Ryder and Keanu Reeves star. She's was formerly engaged to the groom. He's the half brother of the groom. They realize that they might be the extras invited and thrown together like in Table 19.
Set in Santa Rosa, CA wine country, the setting and tone reminded me of the underrated 2000s film Sideways. Like that movie the bucolic setting seems to draw out the craziness that is otherwise kept repressed in L.A.
If you can believe that two wedding guests end up in a hotel room like they are old friends, you'll also appreciate the "old married couple" aspect ( which is anything but) like in the classic Same Time Next Year. That movie started out as a play and since there are only two main characters, this movie was like a play as well, even down to the acts and the scene cards.
* * * of 5
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