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My Best Friend's Wedding
1997
A 28-year-old woman, who years earlier made a pact with her closest male friend that if neither were married in ten years time they would marry one another, now faces the fact that the man is about to marry someone else. He asks her to be his best man and she agrees, planning to go to the ceremony and then break up the couple .. Read more
| Starring | Julia Roberts, Dermot Mulroney, Cameron Diaz, Rupert Everett |
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| Director | P.J. Hogan |
| Genres | Comedy, Romance |
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My Best Friend's Wedding
A 28-year-old woman, who years earlier made a pact with her closest male friend that if neither were married in ten years time they would marry one another, now faces the fact that the man is about to marry someone else. He asks her to be his best man and she agrees, planning to go to the ceremony and then break up the couple before they exchange their vows. Instead, she accepts the turn of events and realizes she doesn't need to be married to be happy.
| Starring | Julia Roberts, Dermot Mulroney, Cameron Diaz, Rupert Everett, Philip Bosco, Susan Sullivan, M. Emmet Walsh, Harry Shearer, Christopher Masterson, Paul Giamatti, Rachel Griffiths, Rose Abdoo, Paul Gleixner, Scott Kuhagen, S |
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| Director | P.J. Hogan |
| Studio | SONY PICTURES HOME ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 40 mins Blu-ray: 1 hr 44 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Collections | 100 Rom-Coms |
| Genres | Comedy, Romance |
| Language | English |
| Subtitles | Czech, English, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Polish |
| Released | DVD: 03 Nov 1998 Blu-ray: 29 Sep 2008 Production year: 1997 |
| Format | DVD |
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This sparkling comedy proved to be a career-resurrecting movie for Julia Roberts, and for once she plays someone who may not get the guy. When she hears her best friend and former lover (Dermot Mulroney) is getting married to Cameron Diaz, Roberts realises she wants to be more than just friends after all. What makes this film — from Muriel's Wedding director PJ Hogan — work so well is that it's not just “The Julia Roberts Show”. While she does the bumbling, adorable routine she's best at, the stunning Diaz and superb Rupert Everett (as Roberts's gay friend and accomplice) battle it out for best supporting performance (and both win). You'll cry with laughter when you watch Everett serenade Roberts (in a crowded restaurant) with I Say a Little Prayer. Terrific stuff.
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Enjoyable, slightly tart comedy, with a star turn from Everett to compensate for the occasional predictability of the plot.
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14 out of 17 people found this review helpful
Sickening
Truly awful! Never has a film taken such liberties with how real people think and feel. Julia Robert's character is unbelivably hateable, yet the other characters don't seem to care.
To give it it's dues, the film was (unintentionally) funny now and again, as it became more and more absurd (I had to keep watching to find out how far the scriptwriters were willing to stretch our concept of reality), but I came away from this film feeling hollow and exploited. Which is not really want you want from a romantic comedy! -
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14 out of 17 people found this review helpful
Sickening
Truly awful! Never has a film taken such liberties with how real people think and feel. Julia Robert's character is unbelivably hateable, yet the other characters don't seem to care.
To give it it's dues, the film was (unintentionally) funny now and again, as it became more and more absurd (I had to keep watching to find out how far the scriptwriters were willing to stretch our concept of reality), but I came away from this film feeling hollow and exploited. Which is not really want you want from a romantic comedy! -
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