License to Wed
Director: Ken Kwapis. Screenplay: Kim Barker, Tim Rasmussen, Vince Di Meglio. Cinematography: John Bailey. Film editing: Kathryn Himoff. Production design: Gae S. Buckley. Music: Christophe Beck. Producers: Mike Medavoy, Arnold Messer, Nick Osborne, Robert Simonds. With: Robin Williams, Mandy Moore, John Krasinski, Eric Christian Olsen, Christine Taylor, Josh Flitter, DeRay Davis, Peter Strauss, Grace Zabriskie, Roxanne Hart, Mindy Kaling, Angela Kinsey, Rachael Harris, Brian Baumgartner, Jess Rosenthal. USA. 100 min. 2007.
A minister with an irreverent streak (but not too irreverent) counsels a savvy young couple (but not too savvy) on the whys and wherefores of marriage, propelling the plot into a break-up-then-make-up pattern that would have seemed trite and predictable even in the long-gone heyday of screwball comedy, which (this picture ruefully reminds us) is indeed long gone. Stay away if Williams gives you the creeps. In fact, stay away even if he doesn’t. You won’t miss much. – David Sterritt
