The Wedding Curse

2006 | Drama, Horror, Thriller, Foreign Language

Synopsis

Sandy and Phil, both Overseas Workers in Dubai, are busy preparing for their wedding. Upon reaching her home, Sandy learns from her mother Daisy what happened to her friend Helen: a short time after Helen's father died, Helen proceeded with her wedding. A few weeks after the wedding, Helen's husband died in a plane crash. On her way to the crash site, she died in a bus accident. A few weeks later, Helen's mother suddenly disappeared inside her house. None of the bodies have been recovered. Sandy proceeds with her own wedding. During the ceremony, she gets a nosebleed and starts seeing glimpses of a ghostly flower girl. It turns out that she is not the only one who saw it. Maja, the psychic daughter of her husband's cousin, also saw the flower girl. Hours later, Sandy and Phil learn that the van carrying some of the secondary sponsors met an accident. When they get to the site, the bodies of the victims could not be found. Instead, they see a bridal cord. Sandy's relatives and friends disappear one by one. Things become more mysterious when Sandy receives their respective wedding photos. The people who died are headless in the photos. They realize that all the headless people in the photos are bound to die. Joya tells Sandy that she is cursed by the "sukob." Sandy is shocked--nobody in her family has died recently, nor has anybody gotten married. Searching for the truth, Sandy unearths a dark family secret. Now she must find a way to end the curse before it takes away anybody else she loves.

Scores

Overall Score
59.0
Popularity Percentile (Year)
72.3%
Box Office Percentile (Year)
40.3%
Review Aggregate
62.0

Critic Consensus

52.0% Fresh • 125 critic reviews

Critic reception is mixed, with 52% of 125 logged reviews marked Fresh. Across reviews, critics repeatedly emphasize lighthearted, thin plot, romantic. Common reservations focus on thin plot, even when reviewers praise standout elements.

lightheartedthin plotromanticfamily-friendlycharacter-drivenvisually strikingstylizedsatiricalgrittydark

Cast

CastYearReported SalaryInflation AdjustedNotes
Christina Ricci2006$978,000$1,522,000(est)
James McAvoy2006$602,000$937,000(est)
Catherine O'Hara2006$453,000$705,000(est)
Peter Dinklage2006$371,000$577,000(est)
Richard E. Grant2006$317,000$493,000(est)
Reese Witherspoon2006$279,000$434,000(est)

Aggregated Reviews

Rotten Tomatoes critic score53.0
RT critic review count128
Rotten Tomatoes audience score73.0
RT audience rating count100,000
IMDb rating6.1
IMDb votes780

Box Office ?

CategoryYearReportedInflation Adjusted
Domestic2006$300,454$467,522
International2006N/AN/A
Worldwide2006$300,454$467,522

Earnings / Profitability

Estimated net revenues and net expenses for films based on reported and estimated numbers. This income statement should be considered most viable for the first 24 months after the inital movie's release (ie after most lucrative pay windows).
CategoryYearReportedInflation Adjusted
Revenues
Theatrical Net Revenue2006$150,227$233,761
Digital Rentals ?2006$240,000$373,452
Digital Purchases ?2006$74,000$115,148
Physical Rentals ?2006$7,589,000$11,808,875
Physical Purchases ?2006$17,900,000$27,853,323
TV & Streaming Revenue2006$135,204$210,385
Total Revenues2006$26,088,431$40,594,945
Expenses
Budget ?2006$15,000,000$23,340,774
Print & Advertising (P&A) ?2006$240,000 (est)$373,452 (est)
Participations2006$1,044,000$1,624,518
Residuals ?2006$1,896,000$2,950,274
Interest & Overhead2006$3,000,000$4,668,155
Total Expenses2006$21,180,000$32,957,173
Movie Net Profit or Loss2006$4,908,431$7,637,772

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