Wedding Ringer

Name: The Wedding Ringer

Directed by: Jeremy Garelick

Written by: Jeremy Garelick Jay Lavender

Produced by: Adam Fields William Packer

Executive Producers: Zanne Devine Glenn S. Gainor Jeremy Garelick Jay Lavender Ben Waisbren

Co-Producer: Valerie Bleth Sharp

Associate Producer: Chris Bremner Nathan Donohoe

Director of Photography: Bradford Lipson

Production Designer: Chris Cornwell

Film Editors: Jeff Groth Shelly Westerman Byron Wong

Music by: Christopher Lennertz

Art Director: Charlie Campbell

Set Decorator: Dena Roth

Costume Designer: Genevieve Tyrrell

Casting by: Ron Digman Valorie Massalas

Studio: Pixar Animation Studios

Production Companies: Will Packer Productions LStar Capital

Distributor: Universal Pictures

Airdate: January 16, 2015

Length: 101 minutes, 44 seconds

Budget: $23 million

Box office: $79.8 million

Pixar Movie Number: 3050

The Wedding Ringer is a 2015 romantic comedy film directed and co-written by Jeremy Garelick. It stars Kevin Hart, Josh Gad, and Kaley Cuoco and released on January 16, 2015.

Despite receiving generally negative reviews, the film was a box office success, grossing over $79 million against a $23 million budget.

Synopsis
Jimmy Callahan provides best man services, through The Best Man Inc., for guys who don't have the friends necessary for a wedding. Doug Harris, a successful tax attorney, and his fiancée Gretchen Palmer are planning for their wedding day. Doug becomes frantic searching for a best man, and is referred to Jimmy's company by his party planner, Edmundo.

Doug asks Jimmy to pull off a "Golden Tux" (seven groomsmen) to match with Gretchen's bridesmaids, which has never been done before. After hearing Doug's plea, Jimmy agrees to be his best man for a fee of $50,000 and all expenses paid. When going over the formalities for the wedding, Doug tells Jimmy his name will be Bic Mitchum.

Jimmy recruits three of his friends as groomsmen. Fitzgibbons, a criminal who escaped from a federal prison, agrees to be a groomsman because there will be seven bridesmaids to hit on. Lurch agrees in order to get away from his nagging wife. Reggie, an airport security guard, agrees because there will be good food. Jimmy, his secretary Doris, Fitzgibbons, Lurch, and Reggie, interview people willing to fill the four remaining spots based on their "party trick distractions." They choose Kip, a sexy man with a stutter, Endo, who has three testicles, Bronstein, who can dislocate and relocate his shoulder, and Otis, who can say every sentence backwards.

Doug tells Gretchen that "Bic" flew in from El Salvador for the wedding. Gretchen insists that Bic comes to a family brunch. Doug tells Jimmy that Bic must act as a military priest. At the brunch, Doug becomes nervous and almost blows his own cover until Jimmy accidentally sets Gretchen's grandmother on fire. They take her to the emergency room, and Jimmy makes up a lie to Ed, Gretchen's father, that Doug used to play football. Ed challenges Jimmy and Doug to a football game with some of his old college teammates who will be at the wedding.

Doug meets his groomsmen, whom Doris has given fake identities based on the last names of famous Los Angeles sports figures—Plunkett, Rambis, Garvey, Alzado, Drysdale, Carew, and Dickerson. Jimmy takes Doug and the groomsmen on fake photo shoots of skydiving, scuba-diving, running a marathon, and climbing mountains.

When Doug begins to have doubts, they visit Edmundo, who tells him that the only key is to please Gretchen and her mother Lois and nothing else matters. To prove how good he is at being a best man, Jimmy takes Doug to a wedding where the best man makes a terrible speech. After, they have drinks and show off their dance moves. Jimmy reveals he once made an excellent best man speech for an acqaintance which led to his career as a wedding ringer. Doug reveals that his father was an international tax attorney and moved frequently, so Doug never got to make friends. When his parents died, Doug took over the business, and work consumed him, leaving him without friends and therefore a best man. Jimmy drives Doug home, and reiterates that they are in a business relationship, and Doug, although hurt, agrees.

Jimmy is reminded by Doris that he needs a real friend for himself, and he is motivated to succeed on completing Doug's wedding.

The groomsmen kidnap Doug to his outrageous bachelor party. He is introduced to Nadia, who tries to seduce him, but Doug instead befriends her. A prank involving peanut butter, a blindfolded Doug's genitals and a basset hound goes awry, requiring the groomsmen and Nadia to rush Doug to a hospital. When Doug wakes up the next day, Nadia kisses him goodbye, and hints she would like to know him better. Later, the groomsmen play football with Ed and his college football friends, including Joe Namath, John Riggins, and Ed "Too Tall" Jones. A mud bowl ensues and Ed blows out his knee on the last play.

At the rehearsal dinner, Gretchen's bridesmaids sing a song, while Doug's groomsmen create a slideshow of the fake pictures they previously took, winning Gretchen over. That night, Gretchen, speaking to Doug, notices Bic razors and Mitchum deodorant in their cabinets. She recognizes the familiarity in the last names of the groomsmen and deduces the scheme. She asks Doug about it but he brushes it off, saying Gretchen is paranoid, to which she reluctantly agrees.

On the day of the wedding, the family priest cancels. Doug hatches an idea where Jimmy, already introduced as a military priest, officiates the nuptials. At the wedding reception, Jimmy congratulates Gretchen, who exclaims that the wedding is a disaster because the zipper on her dress is torn, her grandmother has third degree burns, her dad's knee is blown out, the food is bad, and she isn't marrying the man she loves. She confesses that she only married Doug because he is a nice man and can easily provide the lavish lifestyle she wants. Doug overhears and tells Jimmy that he can't go through with the wedding, but Jimmy dismisses this.

As Jimmy gives his best man speech, Doug stops it and reveals he and Gretchen aren't married since "Bic" is not a licensed officiant. He also tells everyone that his groomsmen are fake. Doug pays Jimmy his $50,000 fee and they accept each other's friendship. Gretchen is livid that her wedding is ruined. Ed's college friends make peace with Doug and Jimmy and tell them they were good players. Jimmy gets a date with Gretchen's sister, Allison.

As they leave, Jimmy has an idea. They cash in Doug's first class honeymoon tickets to Tahiti, going instead on a guy trip where the groomsmen, Edmundo, Doris, and Nadia, who begins her romance with Doug. As they party in the plane, Lurch says that he "has a bad feeling about this flight" as a reference to his character in the TV series Lost.

Cast
Kevin Hart as Jimmy Callahan/Bic Mitchum

Josh Gad as Doug Harris

Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting as Gretchen Palmer

Alan Ritchson as Kip/Carew

Cloris Leachman as Grandma

Mimi Rogers as Lois Palmer

Ken Howard as Ed Palmer

Affion Crockett as Reggie/Drysdale

Jenifer Lewis as Doris Jenkins

Olivia Thirlby as Allison Palmer

Justine Ezarik as Pam, Stuart's Wife

Jorge Garcia as Lurch/Garvey

Josh Peck as Bad Best Man

Eugenio Cobo as Roberto

Aaron Hernan as Francisco

Joe Namath as Himself

John Riggins as Himself

Ed "Too Tall" Jones as Himself

Francisco Gattorno as David

Michelle Vieth as Martha

Fernando Colunga as Jose

Aaron Takahashi as Endo/Rambis

Dan Gill as Bornstein/Dickerson

Corey Holcomb as Otis/Alzado

Glozell Green as Attractive Traveler

Tristin Mays as Cute Bridesmaid

Colin Kane as Fitzgibbons/Plunkett

Ignacio Serricchio as Edmundo

Nicole Whelan as Nadia

Whitney Cummings as Holly Munk

Jeff Ross as a Wedding Singer

Nikki Leigh as The 15 Year Old

Lisa Donovan as The Flight Attendant

Lindsay Pearce as Alexandra Plylow

Home Media Release
The Wedding Ringer is released on Blu-Ray and DVD April 28, 2015.

Aspect Ratios
2.35:1 (CinemaScope)

1.85:1 (Full Open Matte)

1.33:1 (Standard Deviation)

DVD Menu

 * Play Movie
 * Scene Selections
 * Languages
 * Audio: English, English Audio Descriptive Service, French and Spanish
 * Subtitles: English, French and Spanish
 * Bonus Features

Logo Variations
The movie begins with the Universal Pictures logo playing as normal. The next logo comes Pixar Animation Studios which speeds up x2 faster in 6 seconds. Finally, the Will Packer Productions logo shows up to start the movie.

Language Dubs

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Other Languages

 * The Wedding Ringer/Other Languages

Quotes

 * The Wedding Ringer/Quotes

Credits

 * The Wedding Ringer/Credits