Details

Release year: 2015

Storyline

Two weeks shy of his wedding, a socially awkward guy enters into a charade by hiring the owner of a company that provides best men for grooms in need.

Top credits

Directors

Jeremy Garelick

Writers

Cast

Kevin Hart — Jimmy Callahan, Bic
Josh Gad — Doug Harris
Kaley Cuoco — Gretchen Palmer
Affion Crockett — Reggie, Drysdale

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Did you know

• At the 2015 Golden Globe Awards, Kevin Hart went on record saying this film was his best work to date and is most representative of his work on-stage as a stand-up comedian.

• On January 21st, 2015, Kevin Hart bought out two shows of The Wedding Ringer in a theater near Toledo, Ohio. He then urged his fans to "tell them Kevin Hart sent me." 500 patrons were then treated to a free showing of The Wedding Ringer.

• At the end of the movie when Doug and Jimmy are flying to Cancun with all the other fake groomsmen plus Nadia and others, Jorge Garcia's character says the last line of the movie "I have a bad feeling about this flight". Jorge Garcia had previously starred in the successful television series Lost (2004) where a plane crash lands on an island.

Box Office

Gross (Domestic): $64,460,211

Opening Weekend (Domestic): $20,649,306 (2015-01-18)

User reviews

⭐ 7/10

Another Feel-Good Comedy

👍 53 · 2/6/2015

⭐ 7/10

Kevin Hart's best movie I have seen. I laughed a lot throughout. Hart and Gad are great together. Best comedy in a while.

👍 37 · 4/28/2015

⭐ 6/10

Kevin Hart's best performance and sporadic laugh-out-loud moments, but it ultimately clutches onto the same tropes and beats as other movies of its ilk.

👍 37 · 12/26/2015