2006 Rated R - 1 hr 38 min
Director: Edward Burns
Starring: Edward Burns. Matthew Lillard, Brittany Murphy, John Leguizamo, Donal Logue, Jay Mohr, Shari Albert
My biggest beef with this movie is the misleading marketing. The poster pictured here reads "The boys are back in town." The DVD box reads "Till death do they party." But this isn't The Hangover. That movie might be better served by those one-liners than this one.
This movie is good, but it's not a party flick. This groom and his groomsmen have a lot of things to sort out with each other. There's a lot more drama than there is partying. It annoys me that they didn't trust in the movie's validity as a romance/drama and tried to make it sound like something it isn't.
You won't laugh that much when you watch it. But you will find yourself drawn in to these barely-functioning relationships. Brothers struggling to accept each other, men in various stages of their own relationships trying to remain friends, a gay son reconciling with his dad. Doesn't sound like a party movie, does it?
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