Day 85: The Decoy Bride

Super famous actress Lara (Alice Eve) just wants to marry James (David Tenant) in a quiet, private ceremony but the press aren’t having it and they manage to find her wherever she goes. They head off to a tiny Scottish island in the hope that they won’t be found. Katie (Kelly Macdonald) has come back to the island after leaving her cheating fiancée and she is swearing off men. She gets roped into pretending to be Lara to outfox the press and, well, I’m sure you can see what is going to happen, yes?

I’ve always loved Kelly Macdonald and she doesn’t disappoint here. She’s argumentative and loud when she wants to be, and she’s also awkward and adorable when she wants to be. Katie takes a liking to James but playing the decoy bride causes a problem for her and the pair bicker until he saves her life when she almost drowns. He thinks he’s supposed to marry Lara because all the men love her, she’s nice, talented, and she loves him, so if you’re gonna marry someone, it should be her. But then he realises (shock of shocks) that maybe she isn’t right for him and instead maybe the person who is right for him is the adorable Scottish lass. Good choice, Sir.

This film is actually kind of good, I wasn’t expecting to like it but it’s funny. And sweet. My god, when that old deaf couple were dancing in the cottage I started crying. It was just so wonderful, the way they loved each other and were dancing to music that only they could hear.

“A life spent making mistakes is so much better than a life spent doing nothing.”

7/10