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title: "Love Wedding Repeat"
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imdb_id: "tt5096470"
tmdb_id: 624808
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fi1m_score: 42
critics_score: 44
critics_reviews: 12
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# Love Wedding Repeat (2020)

Directed by Dean Craig · 1h 40m · Comedy, Romance

## Identity

Love Wedding Repeat

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/film/love-wedding-repeat
- **Type:** Film
- **Fi1m ID:** love-wedding-repeat
- **IMDb ID:** tt5096470
- **TMDB ID:** 624808
- **Wikidata ID:** Q63565845
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5096470/, https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/624808, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q63565845

**Fi1m score: 42** · Critics 44 from 12 reviews

*In a sentence:* Fate shuffles the place cards, runs the wedding again, and still cannot seat anyone next to a joke

> Dean Craig has a sound farce idea, a handsome Italian villa and a cast who can all do this, and he lands one laugh in three. Sam Claflin and Eleanor Tomlinson are likeable; the repeat the title promises arrives late and changes less than it should.

## Synopsis

Jack (Sam Claflin) has one job at his sister’s wedding, and it is not a job a brother should be given. Hayley (Eleanor Tomlinson) is marrying Roberto (Tiziano Caputo) at a sunlit villa in Italy, and her ex, Marc (Jack Farthing), has turned up uninvited, wired and threatening to tell the groom something before the vows. Hayley hands Jack a bottle of sleeping drops and points him at Marc’s champagne. Jack would rather be talking to Dina (Olivia Munn), the American journalist he nearly kissed years ago and has not seen since, who is now at his table. So is Amanda (Freida Pinto), his ex, with her new boyfriend Chaz (Allan Mustafa); Bryan (Joel Fry), an actor desperate to impress a director; and Sidney (Tim Key), who talks. Then two bored children rearrange the place cards.

## Review

A drugged glass, a long table and nobody sure who is sitting where: that is the whole of Dean Craig’s idea in *Love Wedding Repeat*, and it is a good one for a farce. Jack (Sam Claflin) is asked by his sister Hayley (Eleanor Tomlinson) to put sleeping drops in the champagne of her ex, Marc (Jack Farthing), before Marc can wreck her wedding to Roberto (Tiziano Caputo). Two children at the table swap the place cards. The drops go where they go. Craig wrote *Death at a Funeral* in 2007, which also ran on a family occasion and a bottle of the wrong pills, so he knows how this machine is supposed to turn over.

The trouble is the guests. Each of them has one trait, and the script taps it like a man checking a microphone. Amanda (Freida Pinto) is Jack’s ex and is cross. Chaz (Allan Mustafa) is her new boyfriend and is jealous. Bryan (Joel Fry) is an actor and wants to impress Vitelli (Paolo Mazzarelli), a director seated nearby. Sidney (Tim Key) is dull. Rebecca (Aisling Bea) is sharp with the dull one. Dina (Olivia Munn) is the woman Jack nearly kissed in Rome years ago, and she is lovely, and that is the sum of what we learn about her in 100 minutes.

We laughed properly twice, and both times it was Tim Key. He delivers Sidney’s anecdotes with a flat, hopeful sincerity, a man who has rehearsed being interesting and got it slightly wrong, and the film is at its best when it simply lets him talk at somebody. Farthing is the other bright spot: his Marc is sweaty, grinning and bouncing off the furniture, the only performer here who treats farce as a contact sport. The scene where the drops land in the wrong glass and a guest tries to hold a career-making conversation while his face slides off his skull is the one piece of sustained comic staging in the picture. Mostly, though, we sat and waited for the next one, and it did not come.

Claflin and Tomlinson are the reason the thing stays upright. Their scenes as brother and sister have an easy, exasperated warmth, two people who have had this argument before and will have it again, and Claflin plays Jack’s panic as a steadily rising sweat rather than a series of pratfalls. Munn is relaxed and underused. The romance between Jack and Dina is the film’s spine and it is barely there; they are told they are meant for each other, by the plot and by a narrator, and we are left to take it on trust.

The craft is tidy and does nothing for the jokes. Hubert Taczanowski shoots the villa in flat, even sunshine with no shadow anywhere, pretty in the way a brochure is pretty, and Alessandra Querzola’s long white table under the trees looks like a place a farce could happen if one would only start. The actual mechanics of the repeat are handled by Christian Sandino-Taylor in the cutting room, in a brisk montage of alternative seatings that is the wittiest idea in the film and is over in a couple of minutes. We will not describe the version the film finally settles on, except to say that it reshuffles who sits where and very little else, and that it takes about an hour to get there.

The better wedding comedies, from [*Four Weddings and a Funeral*](https://film.one/film/four-weddings-and-a-funeral) onwards, know that the gags need something underneath them: a man who cannot say what he means, a family that cannot be in a room together. Craig’s own funeral film had a corpse and a secret. Here the stakes are a brother’s embarrassment and a bride’s bad ex, and neither is enough to make us care which glass goes where. Most critics landed in the low forties and so have we.

Have it on for Key and Farthing, and for the montage, if you are already in the mood for a sunny room full of people shouting. At 100 minutes it does not outstay its welcome, which is more than can be said for most of the guests.

*Fi1m score 42, published 12 October 2026.*

## What the critics say

Most critics find Love Wedding Repeat a laboured farce that squanders a promising idea; seven of the twelve reviews are negative. Where there is praise, it goes to the cast rather than the script: Tim Key’s comic delivery, Aisling Bea, Jack Farthing, Olivia Munn’s relaxed presence, and the easy sibling rapport between Sam Claflin and Eleanor Tomlinson are each singled out as bright spots. The Italian setting and handsome production values are noted approvingly too.

The complaints cluster on the premise. Several say the repeat conceit arrives too late or fails to pay off, and that the characters never rise above types, leaving the central romance thin. Some also find the cringe comedy unfunny and the shifts in tone awkward. The spread is wide: Variety stands alone in calling the escalating wedding-day mishaps captivating and Claflin charming, while IndieWire and NME sit in the middle, amused but unconvinced.

## Straight answers

**Is Love Wedding Repeat worth watching?**

*Love Wedding Repeat* is not worth watching unless you are already in the mood for a sunny Italian room full of people shouting, and we scored it 42. Dean Craig has a sound farce idea and a likeable cast, but the script lands about one laugh in three. Tim Key and Jack Farthing supply the two laughs that do arrive.

**How long is Love Wedding Repeat, and what is it rated?**

*Love Wedding Repeat* runs 1h 40m. It is a comedy and romance film.

**Where can I watch Love Wedding Repeat in Lithuania?**

*Love Wedding Repeat* is streaming on Netflix in Lithuania. Availability is checked daily; the links above go straight to each service.

**What should I watch after Love Wedding Repeat?**

After *Love Wedding Repeat*, try [*Four Weddings and a Funeral*](https://film.one/film/four-weddings-and-a-funeral) (1994, Fi1m 80): The British wedding comedy that knew the jokes needed someone unable to speak. Then [*Run Lola Run*](https://film.one/film/run-lola-run) (1998, Fi1m 82): The same twenty minutes three ways, and every rerun actually changes something; and [*The Wedding Banquet*](https://film.one/film/the-wedding-banquet) (1993, Fi1m 81): Ang Lee’s wedding farce, where the lie at the table has real weight.

### Reviews we read (12)

- **Variety**, Owen Gleiberman (80/100, inferred): The critic finds the romantic comedy captivating and praises its fanciful, escalating wedding-day mishaps. He singles out Sam Claflin’s blend of nervousness and charm, along with the film’s looping structure. [Read](https://variety.com/2020/film/reviews/love-wedding-repeat-review-sam-claflin-1234575330/)
- **RogerEbert.com** (64/100, inferred): The page is blocked by a browser check, so the critic’s verdict cannot be verified. No praise or complaint from the review is available in the supplied page text. [Read](https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/love-wedding-repeat-movie-review-2020)
- **The New York Times**, Jeannette Catsoulis (64/100, inferred): The page is blocked, so the critic’s verdict cannot be verified. No praise or complaint from the review is available to identify. [Read](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/10/movies/love-wedding-repeat-review-a-tumble-down-the-aisle.html)
- **IndieWire**, Kate Erbland (C+): Erbland finds the comedy amusing but says it wastes its clever timeline-bending premise. She praises the lively wedding comedy while faulting the thin central romance and the film’s timid, underused concept. [Read](https://www.indiewire.com/criticism/movies/love-wedding-repeat-review-netflix-rom-com-1202223268/)
- **Los Angeles Times**, Gary Goldstein (30/100, inferred): Goldstein finds the film an overworked, disappointing comedy that wears thin before its central repeat premise begins. He faults its contrived situations and characters who feel more like types than authentic people. [Read](https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2020-04-10/love-wedding-repeat-review-romantic-comedy-olivia-munn)
- **The AV Club**, Caroline Siede (30/100, inferred): Siede finds the film’s cringe comedy unfunny and its shifts in tone unsuccessful. She praises the appealing sibling dynamic between Sam Claflin and Eleanor Tomlinson as a bright spot in the uneven film. [Read](https://www.avclub.com/netflix-s-love-wedding-repeat-adds-some-cringe-to-the-r-1842728443)
- **Empire**, Ian Freer (25/100, inferred): Freer finds the comedy frustrating and says its time-loop conceit fails to work. He praises the cast and production values, especially the central performances. [Read](https://www.empireonline.com/movies/reviews/love-wedding-repeat/)
- **The Hollywood Reporter**, David Rooney (25/100, inferred): Rooney finds the comedy derivative and tedious, with too little wit to lift its romantic farce. He singles out Olivia Munn’s relaxed luminosity as a welcome contrast to the strained performances around her. [Read](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-reviews/love-wedding-repeat-review-1289402/)
- **The Guardian**, Benjamin Lee (20/100, inferred): Lee finds the comedy laboured and flat, with its promising wedding-seat premise failing to become worthwhile. He singles out Tim Key’s comic delivery and Aisling Bea’s performance as brief bright spots. [Read](https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/apr/10/love-wedding-netflix-romcom)
- **NME** (60/100, inferred): The critic finds the film harmless and pleasant enough, but not especially original or memorable. They praise the likeable cast for bringing extra laughs to its familiar romantic-comedy setup. [Read](https://www.nme.com/reviews/film-reviews/love-wedding-repeat-review-netflix-2644670)
- **Collider**, Matt Goldberg (D): Goldberg calls the film a total misfire, arguing that its farce fails to make viewers care about the characters or their predicament. He particularly criticizes the stock-like characters and the lack of jokes or investment in the wedding’s stakes. [Read](https://collider.com/love-wedding-repeat-review-sam-claflin-olivia-munn/)
- **Polygon**, Tasha Robinson (20/100, inferred): Robinson finds the film deeply unsatisfying, arguing that its arbitrary endings undermine both the romance and its what-if premise. She praises the gorgeous Italian wedding setting and the comic energy of Tim Key and Jack Farthing, but says the leads and repeated gags drain the story of interest. [Read](https://www.polygon.com/2020/4/10/21217107/love-wedding-repeat-review-netflix-rom-com-sam-claflin-olivia-munn/)

## Details

- **Director:** Dean Craig
- **Director:** Dean Craig
- **Screenplay:** Dean Craig
- **Cinematography:** Hubert Taczanowski
- **Editor:** Christian Sandino-Taylor
- **Production design:** Alessandra Querzola
- **Producer:** Piers Tempest, Guglielmo Marchetti
- **Cast:** Sam Claflin as Jack; Olivia Munn as Dina; Eleanor Tomlinson as Hayley; Freida Pinto as Amanda; Joel Fry as Bryan; Jack Farthing as Marc; Allan Mustafa as Chaz; Tim Key as Sidney
- **Runtime:** 1h 40m
- **First release (Germany):** 10 April 2020
- **Genres:** Comedy, Romance
- **Trailer:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6CyqhYsLqo

## Where to watch in Lithuania

- Netflix: streaming

*Checked 2026-10-12.*

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## If you liked this

- *Death at a Funeral* (2007): Craig’s earlier family occasion, with a corpse, a secret and the pills in the right bottle
- *Plan de table* (2012): The French original; same seating plan, lighter touch, worth comparing
- *Four Weddings and a Funeral* (1994), Fi1m 80: The British wedding comedy that knew the jokes needed someone unable to speak — [Fi1m page](https://film.one/film/four-weddings-and-a-funeral.md)
- *Run Lola Run* (1998), Fi1m 82: The same twenty minutes three ways, and every rerun actually changes something — [Fi1m page](https://film.one/film/run-lola-run.md)
- *The Wedding Banquet* (1993), Fi1m 81: Ang Lee’s wedding farce, where the lie at the table has real weight — [Fi1m page](https://film.one/film/the-wedding-banquet.md)

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