The Decoy Bride
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| Directed by | Sheree Folkson |
| Produced by | Robert Bernstein Douglas Rae Paul Ritchie |
| Written by | Neil Jaworski Sally Phillips |
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David Tennant Alice Eve Kelly Macdonald Sally Phillips |
| Music by | Julian Nott |
| Distributed by | CinemaNX |
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| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Budget | £2,500,000 |
The Decoy Bride is a 2011 British romantic comedy film written by comedian Sally Phillips and Neil Jaworski, and starring David Tennant, Alice Eve and Kelly Macdonald and set on the fictional island of Hegg, supposedly located in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. The film was made by Ecosse Films.
Lara Tyler (Alice Eve) is one of the most famous film stars around, but all she wants to do is marry her fiancé, writer James Arber (David Tennant). After a supposedly secret traditional church wedding is interrupted by paparazzi Marco Ballani (Federico Castelluccio), hiding in a cabinet at the altar, with Lara chasing him away, she and James become desperate to find someplace unknown and wed in peaceful bliss. Besieged by the press, especially Ballani, who is obsessed with Lara, they escape to the tiny Scottish island of Hegg. Ballani somehow manages to get to the island, and then local girl Katie's (Kelly Macdonald) mother alerts the press (for money). Lara discovers all this, becomes upset and hides away. In desperation her management team, led by Steve Korbitz (Michael Urie), decide to stage a fake wedding, hoping the paparazzi will fall for the scam and leave the island. Katie, nursing a broken heart because of her latest break-up, is recruited to pretend to be a heavily-veiled Lara to complete the charade. Subsequent circumstances lead to Katie and James falling in love.
David Tennant said that the film was an homage to the 1983 Scotland-set film Local Hero. The fictional island of Hegg was inspired by Jura and Eigg. It received the largest grant possible from Scottish Screen, £300,000.
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