Kiss Them All!
Kiss Them All! is a 2013 Russian film directed by Zhora Kryzhovnikov and produced by Timur Bekmambetov, Ilya Burets, Dmitry Nelidov, and Sergey Svetlakov. The movie is a wedding comedy. The protagonists, Natasha and Roma, are progressive and talented and dream to organize their wedding by the sea, while Natasha's stepfather Boris Ivanovich wants a classic Russian wedding in a restaurant.
Plot
Natasha and Roma are progressive and talented young people who dream to organize their wedding by the sea in Europe. But Natasha's stepfather thinks differently and drafts his own plan. Being the town manager he feels such an event should be a springboard for his own career.Cast
- Yuliya Aleksandrova as Natasha, the bride, a gas company employee
- Egor Koreshkov as Roma, the groom, a journalist of the local newspaper
- Yan Tsapnik as Boris, Natasha's stepfather, a town manager and former Blue Beret
- Yelena Valyushkina as Tatyana, Natasha's mother, a housewife
- Yuliya Sules as Lyuba, Roma's mother, a hairdresser
- Vasily Kortukov as Evgeny, Roma's father, a fishing lures maker
- Aleksandr Pal as "Khipar", Roma's brother who just got out of jail
- Sergey Svetlakov as the star master of ceremonies
- Valentina Mazunina as Ksyukha, Khipar's girlfriend
- Danila Yakushev as Semyon, Natasha's boss
- Sergey Lavygin as Uncle Tolya, Roma's relative from Tuapse
- Sergey Gabrielyan Jr. as Dima, brother to Roma and Khipar who has been recording the wedding on his camera
- Anastasia Dobakhova as Lyuda, the bridesmaid
- Mikhail Grubov as Sanya, the groomsman
- Evgenia Agenorova as Roma's grandmother
Reception
Kiss them All is the most profitable domestic film in the history of Russian box office, having managed to earn more than 27.3 million dollars on a budget of 1.5 million $.The film received mainly positive reviews and reception from critics. Russia Beyond the Headlines wrote in the review— "Russian viewers were offended but laughed, and critics loved it." However, it got a huge negative backlash from viewers. Peak of negativity was after popular Russian YouTube blogger BadComedian made a negative review of this film.