Marry me! (My Best Friend's Wedding (DVD))

Member Name: Diane3

Product:	My Best Friend's Wedding (DVD)
Date:	28/10/09 (86 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: funny, great performance

Disadvantages: none

My Best Friend's Wedding is a romantic comedy directed by P.J Hogan. He is an Australian film director whose first success was directing Muriel's wedding then it was followed by the film I review now. His success continued with Unconditional Love and Confessions of a Shopaholic.

The film stars Julia Roberts, Cameron Diaz, Rachel Griffith, Dermot Mulroney and Rupert Everett. He won Satellite Awards in Best Supporting Actor category and American Comedy Award in Funniest Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture category. The film was nominated for Golden Globe and MTV Movie Awards. It was released in June 1997. The running time is 105 minutes, the classification is 12 years and over.


Main cast:
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Julia Roberts - Julianne 'Jules' Potter
Dermot Mulroney - Michael O'Neil (Jules's ex and best friend)
Cameron Diaz - Kimberly Wallace (Michael's fiancée)
Rupert Everett - George Downes (Jules's editor)


The plot
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Jules is a 27-year-old restaurant critic who went out for lunch with her boss and editor George. Jules receives a call from her best friend Michael that he wants to talk to her.

Michael and Jules used to be together once and made an agreement that by the time they are both 28 and neither of them is married they would marry each other. As there are only 3 weeks until Jules's 28th birthday she was sure that Michael calls her for that.

Michael announced that in four day he will marry a 20-year old university student Kimberly Wallace. He fell in love with this beautiful and quite rich girl. Jules realises that she is still deeply in love with Michael. She goes to Chicago where the wedding is supposed to take place. She wants Michael to marry her. Her plans fail one after the other so she calls George to help her. When Jules introduces George to the bride turns out that they know each other. Jules asks George to tell everyone that they are engaged. He overplays this role and tells everyone their love story. He sings the film's best soundtrack I Say A Little Prayer For You. How do things go on? Can Jules convince Michael to marry her instead of Kimberly? I wouldn't like to destroy the brilliant film experience, so if you haven't seen it yet give it a go.


My opinion
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First of all I have to tell you that this was a brilliant film. I loved it from the beginning to the end. I loved the wonderful performance of Julia Roberts and Rupert Everett. Both of them were brilliant. Julia Roberts had bigger part in the film and she was absolutely authentic. She was a perfect match for the role of Jules. The chemistry between Jules and George worked perfectly. Rupert Everett is a very talented actor and he is so handsome in this film. I loved how he sang to Jules.

Cameron Diaz had a smaller part in the film but she was good to. She had to play a beautiful bride who can have whatever she wants. I don't think it was a challenge for her. My favourite scene was when she was singing in the karaoke bar.

Dermot Mulroney was pretty good as well. Actually the chemistry between him and Jules, him and Kim worked very well too. I loved when they danced on the board of the ship.

This film had a great soundtrack. I prefer this one to the soundtrack of Rachel Getting Married. I loved when all the people in the restaurant were singing Diana King's song I pray A Little Prayer For You. This great song wasn't the only one well known song in the film. I would like to highlight my favourites: Ani DiFranco's Wishin' and Hopin' was pretty good too, Tony Bennett's The Way You Look Tonight and Mary Chapin Carpenter's I'll Never Fall In Love Again. The soundtrack of this film was really outstanding. The music added to the emotions a lot and made the atmosphere even more authentic.

To sum up the story was great there were nice twists in it. I found this film funny but I have to admit that there were tear jerker plots as well. I don't think it is a classic chick flick film but is mostly for women. You can guess the end of the film and you have 50% chance for it.

Summary: Guess whom will Michael marry