Expectations that “Save the Date” is going to be a jaunty affair are cut
short in the opening five minutes, when it becomes clear that
writer/director Michael Mohan is going to make the audience feel every
last possible moment of discomfort and empty-eyed reflection. A slog
attempting to resemble a romantic comedy, “Save the Date” doesn’t have
the benefit of likable characters and a reinvention of relationship woe.
Instead, it slumbers through routine conflicts, often in the dullest
manner imaginable, refusing the lure of a snappy pace to wallow in poor
communication contests that grow intolerable as Mohan makes a 90-minute
run time feel like three years. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com

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