My Best Friend's Wedding (1997)

It was believable to me because it reminded me of my pathetic life.

The best friend was a gold-digging cradle robber -- Cam Diaz's character was an uber-wealthy 20-year-old. The girl also orders a beer in the film and isn't carded.

I love her enormous flip phone with an antenna.

It's the weirdest movie. Her character is completely unlikable--greedy and vindictive--and yet you're supposed to sympathize with her. It's like "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" in that regard.

It's one of those films where a great performance by Roberts is ruined by a crap director. That singalong at the table scene is cringeworthy.

“He’s just in town to, ah... fuck me.”

This movie was a style-changing moment for my sister. She started to wear her hair, clothes and sunglasses like Julia did did in this movie. It was a good choice since it they are similar in size, and it wasn't an obvious inspiration.

R6 that is a funny line

Very enjoyable film well acted by all however Julia, as good as she was in it, was upstaged by Rupert Everett & Cameron Diaz.

I like the singalong scene. It looks like everyone had fun shooting it.

Very good movie, not great, but much better than most films in the genre. Funny, engaging, touching, avoids most of the genre cliches, excellent performances.

Why has Hollywood forgotten how to make romantic comedies? There were a lot of good ones in the 90s, what's gone wrong since then?

[quote] It's one of those films where a great performance by Roberts

And that's exactly where I stopped reading your post.

I liked the opening credits. Too lazy to fund it and post. Just take my word for it. It's good.

Crème brûlée can never be Jell-O.

Rupert Everett & Cameron Diaz should have been nominated for supporting Oscar nominations.

Julia Roberts "upstaged by Rupert Everett & Cameron Diaz"? Are you on crack?!

Julia’s hair should have gotten a supporting nomination.

One of the best romantic movies. The realistic ending makes it great

That's not the one with Kristin Scott Thomas?

Rupert was so fuckable in this film.

R19 Your not thinking of Four Weddings and a Funeral are you? Kristin Scott Thomas was in that.

Your not thinking?

Didn't the original version tank at the try-outs? Everyone hated Julia's character but loved Rupert Everett, so they rewrote the ending, brought him back and tweaked her character a lot to soften her. The result was a success and saved her career after a run of flops.

Dermot Mulroney was prettier

PJ Hogan also directed the great MURIEL'S WEDDING

The sing-along scene is better than the karaoke scene with Cameron Diaz.

I liked this movie. Sure she's a conniving bitch, but she DOESN'T get the guy in the end.

Dermot's character was an asshole and he doesn't get called out by Kimmy or Jules.

I thought Dermot was so dreamy in this movie. That deep voice singing The Way You Look Tonight as they danced on the boat...

The ultimate fag-hag movie.

This was one of the first major movies where the gayness of a leading actor wasn't the whole point.

"Will and Grace" hadn't come out yet, and gay characters were still stereotypical token roles.

It’s one of my favorite romcoms for the reasons listed above: the heroine does truly awful things, her gay friend is devilishly witty and mischievous, and it was Julia Roberts’ best performance to date.

And this scene. It’s admittedly schmaltz, but it’s impeccably timed and foreshadows the outcome of the romance.

It was a good performance.

The “Say A Little Prayer” singalong was totally inconsistent with the tone of the movie. Very distracting and not entertaining.

Julia was great. She can do farce but not slapstick.

R23 - the original ending had Julia meeting John Corbett at the reception and dancing with him. It didn't test well, so they shot the Rupert Everett ending, which in my opinion is great.

It was the first rom com I ever watched where the girl didn’t get the guy, and was revolutionary in that way.

I watche this movie alone and cried couple hours on Saturday night . I fell in love with a friend for so many years , he married another guy and left my city . I miss him .

Rachel Griffiths was practically a background actor in this.

Save for Mulroney, Julia is upstaged by the entire cast. It's a decent performance from Roberts because it basically called her to mirror her own personality. The costumer must have hated her guts because she's dressed like a sloppy lesbian in the whole film.

Who did Rachel play?

Rachel was one of the bridesmaids

Rachel was skinny.

[quote]Rachel was skinny

she still is?

She was not nearly as skinny even on Six Feet Under, a couple years later.

Carrie Preston (THE GOOD WIFE/TRUE BLOOD) played the other bridesmaid

I adored this movie as a teenager. I was gay, and already knew it, and, as R31 pointed out:

[quote]This was one of the first major movies where the gayness of a leading actor wasn't the whole point.

It felt so good to see a gay actor in a dignified gay role onscreen.

Beyond that, though, the story really is surprisingly nuanced. Rewatching the clip at R32 just now made me choke up. We don't always get what we want in life and in love; sometimes the moment does pass us by.

It really did overturn all the clichés of the romantic comedy genre. I mean in a lot of romantic comedies people say and do the most godawful things in the name of love, and everyone laughs because hopefully it's funny, and at the end of the movie it always pays off and they're in love no matter what unforgiveable thing has been done in the previous two hours.

And at the end of this movie after we've laughed and laughted... the heroine realizes that yes, her actions are unforgiveable. It's both a romantic comedy, and an anti-romantic comedy.

I was pretty young when this movie came out, so I just downloaded it on Netflix. I'll watch it and report back on what I think.

Moderately entertaining but essential stupid film. Kind of like Pretty Woman.

Wedding? I'll show you a fookin' wedding.

R13 is right, the opening credits are genius.

That was Rachel Griffiths as one of the vengeful stuts?

Once a cunt, always a cunt. Isn't the plot similar to how Julia stole her husband Danny from his wife Vera?

I believe what made it so memorable was the ending where the lead DOES NOT get the guy after being such a crazy scheming bitch. Rupert Everett pretty much humanized Julia Robert's character. Otherwise she'd been a Disney villain that was only a few steps away from turning into a monstrous dragon at the end of the movie and then gets defeated by the actual good characters of the movie.

[quote] It really did overturn all the clichés of the romantic comedy genre. I mean in a lot of romantic comedies people say and do the most godawful things in the name of love, and everyone laughs because hopefully it's funny, and at the end of the movie it always pays off and they're in love no matter what unforgiveable thing has been done in the previous two hours.

You might enjoy “I Give It A Year” with Rose Byrne and Rafe Spall.

But Jules, who's chasing YOU?

Julia and Dermot have a reunion, so to speak, in her new series "Homecoming."

Maybe it was a different time but it seems strange to me that Cameron's parents in the movie are okay with marrying their 20-y.o. daughter off to a much-older man who, strangely enough, could really benefit from his new wife's family business.

Liked it too, had some great moments. For me the star of the movie was Cameron Diaz who gave a great nuanced performance , it showed a promise never realized. Pity that she decided to go for the easy money instead of exploring a more serious career.

I love this movie. It was huge when I was a kid and would watch it with my older sister. I'm going to have to go download it now!

That was a very canny move on Julia's part--she'd been in a string of movies no one cared about (a lousy Woody Allen movie, etc.)....it played to her strengths, and she was funny in it--the moment when she sizes up with Cameron Diaz with a single glance is classic.

I actually think Roberts was the best thing in the movie. Her crying on the boat while Dermot sang to her was very effective as was her ending when she thought she wouldn’t get to say goodbye and he appears for a brief moment to hug her goodbye and the music swells.

I know it’s schmaltz but it’s moving.

I wish they hadn't let the test audiences influence this film so heavily. I was always bothered by the scene where, while watching Kimmy triumph at the karaoke bar, Jules gives a seemingly sincere smile. It seemed completely incongruous with her character. Then, years later, I found out that the test audiences hated Jules so much that they wanted her to be killed off, so the director changed some scenes (and removed her semi-happy ending in which she meets a new love interest at the wedding) in order to soften her. I'm guessing the karaoke scene was one of the ones that was changed.

It's surprising that Julia allowed Cameron Diaz to being the "pretty one," the princessy center of attention that she is so fond of playing.

r48 How do you download something on Netflix?

[quote] It's surprising that Julia allowed Cameron Diaz to being the "pretty one.

No, that never happened.

A low, r63.

Julia's last likeable role?

Why did she break into Cameron Diaz ' dad's office and write the email it she didn't want to send it?

She convinced herself she didn't want to, then thought maybe, then changed her mind. She was being self-destructive and passive-aggressive. People do things that don't make sense sometimes!

R68 especially when they're desperate.

[quote]R2 The girl also orders a beer in the film and isn't carded.

This is what I can’t forgive.

It was 1997.

Julia was excellent in this movie. I've always thought Will & Grace was conceived from this movie. Audiences loved the gay best friend. Julia, America's Sweetheart was the First Hag. And I appreciated the gay was actually a moral compass to the selfish shrew. It made the character very authentic and mainstream best friend.

It's not as dated as other movies from that time.

R62, it is unlikely that that shot was redone since it would have been hard to make the shot match (since it would have meant getting back the same extras who sat by Roberts and location).

The main changes (beside the ending) was to add all the conversations with Everett where Roberts discusses what she is doing next and why. By making her intentions explicit, this allowed for greater audience identification and gave her character as strong emotional relationship in which she was not manipulative.

It's one of my favorites. Probably Julia's most believable performance. I love the visual of all of the pastel helium balloons under the netting on the tennis court and the three teenaged boys singing with the helium, and the boat scene on the river is very effective and touching. Rupert Everett is also right on the money.

A sneaky secret musical. They sneaked it by the general audiences who claim to hate musicals. Clever.

I had a funny fight with a friend later on who didn't believe me that Rachel Griffith was in this.