Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates

Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates
Theatrical release poster
Directed byJake Szymanski
Written by
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyMatthew Clark
Edited by
Music byJeff Cardoni
Production
companies
Distributed by20th Century Fox
Release date
  • July 8, 2016 (2016-07-08) (United States)
Running time
98 minutes[1]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$33–35 million[2][3]
Box office$77.1 million[2]

Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates is a 2016 American romantic comedy film directed by Jake Szymanski and written by Andrew Jay Cohen and Brendan O'Brien. The film stars Zac Efron and Adam DeVine as the title characters, two brothers who put out an ad for dates to their sister's wedding, and features Anna Kendrick and Aubrey Plaza as the girls who answer the ad. The film is based on an actual news event of a Craigslist ad placed by two brothers who wanted dates for their cousin’s wedding that became popular in February 2013, which they then turned into a book, Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates: And a Thousand Cocktails.[4][5]

The film premiered in Los Angeles on June 30, 2016, and was theatrically released on July 8, 2016, by 20th Century Fox. It received mixed reviews from critics and grossed over $77 million worldwide.

  1. ^ "Mike And Dave Need Wedding Dates (15)". British Board of Film Classification. June 24, 2016. Archived from the original on September 3, 2024. Retrieved June 24, 2016.
  2. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference BOM was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ "2016 Feature Film Study" (PDF). FilmL.A. Feature Film Study. Film L.A.: 23 May 23, 2017. Archived (PDF) from the original on July 31, 2017. Retrieved August 14, 2018.
  4. ^ Lange, Maggie (July 7, 2016). "Getting Weird with the Real Mike and Dave Who Needed Wedding Dates". GQ. Archived from the original on June 27, 2022. Retrieved September 10, 2017.
  5. ^ Stangle, Mike; Stangle, Dave (May 19, 2015). Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates: And a Thousand Cocktails. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-1476760070.