The credited adaptation source for Love Wedding Repeat might be a minor French comedy from 2012 called Plan de table, but the model for this strained opera buffa is two Brit hits from the 1990s: Sliding Doors and Four Weddings and a Funeral.
From the first comes the idea of parallel realities, their varying permutations dictated by chance; from the second, well, it's right there in the new film's title.
Writer-director Dean Craig clearly worships at the altar of Richard Curtis, whose diluted DNA is all over Netflix's rom-com about an obstacle course of ceremonial chaos along the path to blissful union.
Almost every character here can be mapped back to a counterpart in Curtis' screenplay for Four Weddings, starting with Jack (Sam Claflin),.
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