Critics Consensus

Director and star Burns returns to his home turf -- dialogue-driven examinations of the relationships between men and women -- with uneven results.

Synopsis

Writer-director Edward Burns also stars as Paulie, an Irish-American groom-to-be whose four 30-something groomsmen (Jay Mohr, Donal Logue, John Leguizamo and Matthew Lillard) reflect during the week before the wedding on the end of their prolonged adolescence. But are they ready to embrace the next phase? Burns here returns to the successful style of storytelling he employed in The Brothers McMullen and She's the One.