Save the Date

Save the Date revolves around five people.

First there are the two sisters, Sarah and Beth (played by Lizzy Caplan and Alison Brie). Sarah is a directionless manager of a bookstore and isn't in much of a rush to change where she's at. Beth both overcompensates with advice she knows her sister will never take and planning her wedding to Andrew.

Kevin and Andrew (played by Geoffrey Arend and Martin Starr) play in a band called Wolfbird. After a long courtship, Sarah moves in with Kevin and all she can think about is how much she'll miss the haunted couch she's leaving behind. Kevin proposes in the most uncomfortable way possible and is heartbroken when Sarah doesn't so much as say 'no' as flees the building.

And to round off the quintet, Jonathan is Sarah's new boyfriend (played by Mark Webber). Marine biologist and finder of cats. Everyone involved in Sarah's life is almost disappointed that this sweet guy is not the jerkwad rebound they were kind of hoping he'd be.

The film is littered with Sarah's drawings (done by graphic novelist and co-writer, Jeffrey Brown) which provide an outlet to Sarah's thoughts, but feel a little shoehorned at times.

Their conversations and interactions are refreshingly sincere. They bicker, they break up, they hook up, and all the while provide an honest humor throughout the film. Director and co-writer, Michael Mohan, said that they would sometimes start a scene two minutes before dialogue from the actual script so that the actors could have a chance to lead up to where they needed to be.

All of the performances are wonderful and I kept picking up lines of dialogue I have said in real life. Really cool and a little weird.