THB #241a: Two Review Friday - 2. Ticket To Paradise

You have a screenplay with key elements of My Best Friend’s Wedding and Runaway Bride. Two long-divorced parents whose daughter has quickly decided to marry a man recently met in an exotic location, going against her normally cautious practices and the well-defined plans for her future, and the parents feel compelled to break it up just before it happens.

So who do you cast? Well, Julia Roberts seems like a very easy call. She has broken up weddings before, though from different angles, as the bride herself or as a selfish friend who wants the groom for herself. In both cases, she has to grow into her peace with the outcome, marriage.

Who do you want to play it opposite her? Well, what if you could get a guy who is associated with Julia and widely considered the most charming man in the last decades of movies? Clooney.

So why is it so clear that this movie is miscast?

George Clooney has only been in one romantic comedy in his entire career. One Fine Day in 1996. It opened to $6,226,430. T…