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Jeremy Irons and Diane Keaton in the disastrous Love, Weddings & Other Disasters
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Dir: Dennis Dugan. Cast: Diane Keaton, Jeremy Irons, Maggie Grace, Diego Boneta, Andrew Bachelor, Andy Goldenberg, Dennis Staroselsky, Melinda Hill, Elle King. 12 cert, 96 mins
Disasters: well, they said it. The new film from Dennis Dugan is a frighteningly inept stab at a romantic comedy in the Nancy Meyers style (The Holiday, It’s Complicated), centred on two accomplished but lovably ditzy career women, one of whom is played by Diane Keaton. But all the trademark pleasures of a Meyers production – beautiful people, gentle screwball antics, plushly aspirational settings – have been more or less turned on their head here: the characters are all irritating if not flatly revolting, the sets and costumes (Keaton’s wardrobe aside) exhibit a dire lack of taste, and every scene looks as if it was shot through a dirty window.