Made Of Honour (2008)

Made of Honour starts as an agreeable homage to When Harry Met Sally, meets My Best Friend’s Wedding until finishing as the Friends’ transatlantic wedding episodes. This makes for an entertaining mish-mash of a film that soppy romantics everywhere will enjoy. 

Patrick Dempsey plays the womanising Tom whose dating policy is governed by a series of rigidly enforced rules like no "back to back" dates. For the past ten years his best friend and confidante has been Hannah (Michelle Monaghan) who, for some inexplicable reason, he's found resistible. In true romcom form, it's only when Hannah leaves on a trip to Scotland he finds himself missing her.
 
Upon her return Tom intends to reveal his true feelings, but his plan is scuppered when Hannah announces she's engaged to an aristocratic and wealthy Scotsman, Colin (Kevin McKidd). Tom resolves to sabotage the wedding and win Hannah back, a task made easier by her appointment of Tom as her maid of honour.

The plot holds little suspense, while the script’s sharp wit is undermined by all the kilt sporting and whisky drinking. This serves nothing more than to create a cheap stereotypical image of our neighbours north of the border. And so this moves from comedy to cliché – but there’s still enough charm to make it a serviceable romantic comedy. For the genre Made of Honour operates in, it does exactly what it says on the tin.

Release Date: 29th September 2008
Director: Paul Weiland
Starring: Patrick Dempsey, Michelle Monaghan, Kevin McKidd, Kadeem Hardison and Chris Messina
Certificate: 12A
Runtime: 96 minutes (approx)
Special Features: Director’s commentary; Making of documentary; Three weddings and a skyline featurette; Deleted scenes; Trailers

Adrian McBreen