madeofhonor

This is something different..a chick flick from the guy's point of view and it works. It may look like another roomantic comedy with a familiar plot line, but it is cute and really nicely done for a date film.

Tom (Patrick Dempsey) has a great career, good looks and dozens of women swooning all over him. Hannah (Michelle Monaghan) is the one woman of dozens he has known that he's never slept with and the two of them are platonic best friends from college. For each the day starts and ends with the other. After Hannah leaves for an extended overseas trip to Scotland, Tom realizes just how much he is in love with her and vows to propose to her when she gets back to the States. However, when Hannah returns, she is engaged to Colin McMurray, the son of a Duke (Kevin McKidd) she met and she asks Tom to be her "maid" of honor at her wedding. Although he is crushed, Tom valiantly accepts the job, but only as a last ditch attempt to win Hannah's heart and to stop her from marrying someone else.

Despite the ire of the bridesmaids, Melissa, Stephanie and Hilary ( Busy Philips, Whitney Cummings and Emily Nelson ) one of which he selpt with, Tom persists with the support of his buddies to undermine Colin. Tom's dad ( s sixth wife and tells Tom to grow up and Hannah's mom ( Kathleen Quinlan ) is certain that somethingis amiss as she always assumed that sooner or later Tom and Hannnah would wed. Yes, there is chemistry between Dempsey and Monaghan that makes this wrk, that and Monaghan's girl-next-door looks that make her sexy wihout being 'Hollywood' perfect. This film is worth seeing for the honesty of story and scripting. It's believeable even though it's not terribly original.

Trivia:
Whilst filming at the Park Lane Hotel, on Park Lane in London, some 30 extras had to be called in at short notice when the production team noticed the frequency of passing red double-decker buses, a common enough occurrence in London, but not in New York, where the scene is set. The extras were used outside the hotel to try to block the buses out.

Goof from IMDB: Tom claims to have invented the paper cup sleeve when in reality it was invented by a man in California named Jim Chelossi.

The Players: Patrick Dempsey, Michelle Monaghan, Kevin McKidd, Kathleen Quinlan, Sydney Pollack, and Kadeem Hardison

The Filmmakers;
Directed by Paul Weiland
Screenplay by Adam Sztykiel, Deborah Kaplan, Harry Elfont
Released by Columbia Pictures

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