Save the Date

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  • Opened December 14, 2012 (Limited NY, LA)
  • 1 hr 38 min
  • R | Sexual content, language and brief drug use.

  • Parents: Common Sense Media says Iffy for 16+. More on child suitability

  • After an ill-timed and very public marriage proposal, fiercely independent Sarah (Lizzy Caplan) breaks up with her overeager boyfriend Kevin (Geoffrey Arend). Sarah turns to her sister Beth (Alison Brie) for support, but Beth is too busy obsessing over the details of her own wedding to Kevin's bandmate, Andrew (Martin Starr). When Sarah suddenly finds herself caught up in an intense rebound romance with the adorable Jonathan (Mark 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? Full synopsis

  • Cast: Lizzy Caplan, Geoffrey Arend, Alison Brie, Martin Starr, Mark Webber
  • Director: Michael Mohan
  • Genres: Drama

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80
New York Magazine (Vulture)
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Save the Date works best when it's getting under your skin, and it does that when it's capturing the queasy halfway point - part sadistic, part bittersweet - of still loving somebody while trying to move on to someone new. It's a kind of subtlety that movies, especially American movies, rarely do well, but this quietly unassuming, secretly brilliant little charmer nails it. Read full review

70
Movieline
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Mohan's film may not manage anything out of the ordinary, but it does present a convincingly contemporary depiction of relationships and dating when the goalposts have been moved, or when we're at least trying to pretend they have. Read full review

60
New York Daily News
| Elizabeth Weitzman

Mohan should have made a little more effort for us. Another pass at the screenplay probably would have done it. But one gets the sense he's already moved on to the next thing. Read full review

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indieWIRE
| Eric Kohn

This is still a pretty familiar journey that's easier to pity than hate -- much like Caplan's character. Read full review

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Mark Webber as Jonathan and Lizzy Caplan as Sarah in "Save the Date."