In Save The Date, Lizzy Caplan and Alison Brie play sisters—and de facto, sometimes reluctant best friends—with fundamental differences in how they think about their romantic futures. Brie eagerly takes the lead in planning for her wedding to longtime boyfriend Martin Starr, and talks about starting a family with him; Caplan has taken two years to move in with her boyfriend (Geoffrey Arend) and just the thought of it makes her itch, to say nothing of the long-term commitment of marriage. Save The Date takes the familiar form of an indie romantic comedy—i.e. like its Hollywood counterpart, only slightly quirkier and with better music—but it’s set apart by the fact that Brie and Caplan are not so easily cleaved into the labels of “the happy bride” and “the commitment-phobe,” respectively. They share similar anxieties, but have opposing ways of dealing with them.
