‘Save The Date’ Trailer: Starring ‘Bachelorette’s Lizzy Caplan And ‘Five-Year Engagement’s Alison Brie
Lizzy Caplan’s already starred in one wedding comedy this year — the enjoyably acerbicBachelorette— andAlison Briegot to help Emily Blunt to the altar inThe Five-Year Engagementearlier this spring. Now Caplan and Brie are teaming up with one another for yet another marriage-themed romcom, playing sisters inMichael Mohan’s bittersweetSave the Date.
Caplan plays commitment-phobic artist Sarah, who dumps her boyfriend Kevin (Geoffrey Arend) after a public proposal gone spectacularly wrong. She rebounds with sweet Jonathan (Mark Webber). In contrast, Brie’s Beth is happily preparing to spend the rest of her life with Andrew (Martin Starr) — but he seems somewhat more ambivalent about their future. Watch the trailer after the jump.
Save the Datedebuted at Sundance to mixed reviews overall, but the positive ones were really positive.The AV Clubfell for the film’s “swooningly romantic yet clear-eyed” tone and gave it an A-, whileEWdeclared it “the movie Ben Stiller’s 1994 paen to Gen-X neuroses [Reality Bites] could and should have been.” Between those raves and that cast, I’m sold, even ifVarietyandTHRwere less on board with the characters’ self-absorbed tendencies.Save the Datehits VODNovember 8and theatersDecember 14.
After an ill-timed and very public marriage proposal, fiercely independent Sarah (Caplan) breaks up with her overeager boyfriend Kevin (Arend). Sarah turns to her sister Beth (Brie) for support, but Beth is too busy obsessing over the details of her own wedding to Kevin’s band mate, Andrew (Starr). When Sarah suddenly finds herself caught up in an intense rebound romance with the adorable Jonathan (Webber), she is forced to examine her own fears of commitment and vulnerability. With honesty, heart, and humor, all five struggle with the trials, happiness, and pain of modern love. In the end Sarah must decide – is it better to stay safely single or to risk it all on love?
