Courtesy - The Sunday Leader By Sumaya Samarasinghe
In a nutshell, The Romantics is about a group of college friends who reunite after several years to celebrate Tom (Josh Duhamel) and Lila’s (Anna Paquin) wedding.
Lila who comes from a rich family is somewhat of a control freak who desperately tries to ignore the fact that her husband-to-be is not completely smitten by her. He is still in love with his ex girlfriend Laura (Katy Holmes) who is also the maid of honour.
The film takes place over one night at Lila’s parents’ seaside house in Long Island. The wedding rehearsal dinner is a disaster and a prelude of what is in store. The group of friends gets completely drunk and make embarrassing and revealing speeches about the bride and groom. The last toast which is made by Laura is probably Holmes’s best scene in the entire film. She keeps it together throughout most of her toast and then gradually blunders with words and stumbles, making her feelings towards the groom evident before a thankfully comatose and drunk crowd, and, unfortunately a mortified mother of the bride (Candice Bergen).
On the same night, the group, minus the bride, continue their drinking binge on the beach and they decide to go for a midnight swim; all return to shore except for the groom. The drunken friends decide to go looking for him without alarming his future bride and of course Laura finds Tom who is having a serious case of cold feet.
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