CB - The generic, wedding-centric title Save the Date might suggest the kind of bland, lifeless romcoms you go to the Sundance Film Festival to get away from. But the movie is one of many at this year's festival that seems to revive the whole idea of watching two people fall in love onscreen, following two sisters in two very different relationship stages as each makes mistakes and slowly figures out what it really takes to commit to somebody. Featuring strong performances from both leads Lizzy Caplan and Alison Brie, along with lovely supporting work from their male suitors Martin Starr, Geoffrey Arendt and Mark Webber, the movie treads the familiar ground of love and family while telling a uniquely layered story of its own.
CO - Alison Brie is at Sundance with the film Save the Date, in which she plays a sister planning her wedding. The film speaks to themes of relationships and communication, bucking the Hollywood clichés of bridezillas and rom-coms. Brie plays Beth, engaged to Andrew (Martin Starr), and trying to micromanage her commitment-phobic sister Sarah (Lizzy Caplan) a little. After the interview was over Brie kept talking about her upcoming role in The Five Year Engagement as Emily Blunt’s sister, doing an accent and everything, but we got in deep about Save the Date, Community and Mad Men.
