Synopsis
Frank and Lindsay—two emotionally-broken strangers—meet on the way to a destination wedding. Over the course of the weekend and against all odds, they find themselves drawn together even though they are initially repulsed by one another.
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Cast
- Winona RyderLindsay
- Keanu ReevesFrank
- DJ DallenbachAnn
- Ted DubostKeith
- D. Rosh WrightFrank's Mother
- Greg LuceyFrank's Stepfather
- Curt DubostFather of the Bride
- Donna Lynn JonesFrank's Stepfather's Girlfriend
Recommendations
- 75
IndieWire
Destination Wedding makes the case that the two-hander isn’t dead, even if it struggles a bit when forced to come to a neat, movie-ready conclusion. - 60
The Guardian
The pair share an easy, spiky chemistry and Reeves in particular shows himself to be surprisingly skilled at delivering such bile-filled dialogue. - 50
Village Voice
Levin at times seems rather too taken with the verbosity of his own dialogue, but here and there, his quips and situations match perfectly with his actors’ sensibilities. - 50
Variety
Destination Wedding barely holds together as a coherent film. It’s too callous for coos, too chipper to examine the dark corners of the soul. Yet it works as a valentine to old-fashioned star power — two modern legends, older if no wiser, daring the audience to somehow love them for all their faults, and on that level, somehow succeeding. - 40
New York Magazine (Vulture)
Levin’s dialogue is relentless. Every line and retort is a punch line, and every punch line more or less amounts to Lindsey and Frank telling each other how much they stink. - 40
Rolling Stone
There’s a simple reason why it’s hard to imagine why anyone, much less everybody, would willingly spend time with Frank and Lindsay in this agonizing endurance test of a movie. They’re no damn fun. - 38
Slant Magazine
The way Destination Wedding uses misanthropy to augment screwball tropes ends up being its undoing. - 35
Film Journal International
Slim movies like this live or die based on their personal charm, and the sour Destination Wedding soon wheezes its way into the ICU.
