This film explores the part played by chance at crucial moments in our lives. In this case it's at a wedding in Italy between the English Hayley (Emily Tomlinson) and the Italian Roberto. Hayley is horrified to discover a coked-up ex amongst the guests and asks her brother Jack (Sam Calfin) to keep him quiet with a strong dose of sedative. Meddlesome kids swap around the name cards on the English table and the wrong person gets the sedative. But who gets it? This is where chance intervenes, especially in Jack's hopes of ending up with Gina (Olivia Munn).
At first Bryan, the male maid of honour, drinks the drugged champagne, and everything goes awry. Then we're treated to a rerun with Jack drugging himself. Initially, things go even worse, but...
It's an interesting premis but somehow the story feels contrived, there's too much slapstick, and the social awkwardness is so uncomfortable that I fast-forwarded a few minutes in the middle. The ingredients seem right, but it just doesn't gel. All the cast is fine - I particularly appreciated Aisling Bea as Rebecca. I can't shake off the suspicion that Richard Curtis could have grabbed the project by the scruff of the neck and knocked it into shape.
The story has a certain resonance for me as I distinctly remember once swapping numbers with someone at a wedding only for my early mobile to somehow forget the number. Where would I be now if... So it's a shame this film doesn't quite work, but OK to while away a lockdown evening. 5.5/10
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