According to ChatGPT, of the two million plus marriages in the United States per year, around 50,000 of them end in a last-minute or left at the altar, resulting in devastation for the person left waiting for their partner who never arrives. The most well known left at the alter celebrity instance of this was when Julia Roberts left Kiefer Sutherland as the alter in 1991.

The new movie “Solo Mio” is about a man, Matt Taylor, played by Kevin James, who is in Tuscany, Italy, about to be married, and is left standing at the Church altar. The rest of this movie is about Matt’s inability to get his money back for the huge cost of the planned Hotel and honeymoon in Italy, and being surrounded by other married couples to try to help him get over the worst day in his life. The screenplay for this film is surprisingly simple and mostly mundane, with some minor humor and an ending twist that I found very well done, and impossible to predict – essentially saving this movie into one that is more memorable.

The Rotten Tomatoes for this average January movie is a too high 77% with my rating around 70% and a very marginal recomendation.