My Best Friend's Wedding (1997)

People are voting emotionally.

For all the hype it got I was expecting a lot more!

It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Thanks so much forJulianne Potter (Julia Roberts), is a difficult food critic, who's been best friends with sports writer Michael O'Neal (Dermot Mulroney) for nine years, without realizing she's hopelessly in love with him.But when she gets a phone call from him informing her that he's getting married to the rich and lovely Kimberly Wallace (Cameron Diaz), she gets on a plane to Chicago with a covert plan to break up the wedding, and make Michael see that his place is with her."He adored ME for nine years." She tells her editor and friend George Downes (Rupert Everett), who -although gay- may harbor some secret feelings for her.When she arrives in Chicago, she is greeted by the glowing Kimmy who is only too eager to make her rival her best friend, and within ten minutes of meeting Julianne asks her to be her maid of honor.And when George visits her three days later (all her schemes are failing miserably up to that point), Julianne, on impulse, claims he's her fiance.It's a lie that unleashes one of the funniest set of subplots ever conceived in a romantic comedy.Rupert Everett, and Cameron Diaz shine like new pennies in their roles.They are positively radiant, and give the movie it's light.Julia Roberts is perfect as the scheming Julianne, whose actions get increasingly more desperate -and hilarious- as the story progresses.Dermot Mulroney is very well cast as Michael.He does a good job of conveying that he loves both women, and literary leaves the audience in suspense about which one he's going to chose.Relentlessly hysterical, and charming, this is one of the freshest most original comedies I can remember seeing.The ending (which in this case makes or breaks the movie), is as terrific as it is unpredictable:You'll never see it coming, yet it'll make you want to applaud.A stunning conclusion to a first rate story.Originally, Review #153Posted On: December 17, 2011

My Best Friend's Wedding (1997): Dir: P.J. Hogan / Cast: Julia Roberts, Dermot Mulroney, Cameron Diaz, Rupert Everett, Philip Bosco: Great romantic comedy about penetration. Julia Roberts and Dermot Mulroney promise to marry each other at twenty-eight if both are single by that time. When she is invited to his wedding she plans to split it up. Cameron Diaz enters as the fiancée and hooks up with Roberts hoping to enhance upon friendship. The result is heart-warming with fine comic timing by director P.J. Hogan who previously made another wedding film called Muriel's Wedding. One of Roberts's best performances as she overcomes formula elements with a great sense of integrity. Mulroney torn between two women and avoids entrapment within formula by still being genuine. Cameron Diaz enters with a blast of enthusiasm and where many such films would portray her in negative light, it is a great spin here that she is not the enemy. Her sincerity provides tension when Roberts schemes. Rupert Everett steals scenes as Roberts's gay editor who is there when needed and while he provides many great laughs, he is also in the best place during the last scenes. Philip Bosco has a small role as the wealthy father of the Diaz character whom is used unknowingly within the schemes of Roberts towards the third act. It is not about love, but about acceptance. A very funny wedding worth attending. Score: 9 / 10

After Michael tells his best friend, Julianne that he is getting married in four days, she goes straight to Chicago to help him 'prepare'. But she has every intention to stop the wedding and steal the groom from Kimberly. Over the next three days, she tries everything to split them up. Finally, on the day of the wedding, Julianne tells Michael she loves him and kisses him, but unbeknown to them both, Kimberley is watching them. Now Michael has to decide whom he loves most.....Romantic comedy writers in the late nineties must have been running out of ideas when they came up with this, because the film doesn't work in any way, unless your some bitter friendless misery.Which is how I'd exactly describe Roberts character in this film. It's not Roberts fault, she's perfectly fine in her role, it's just that I kept asking myself whilst watching this 'how on earth am I suppose to sympathise with such a scheming, snobby, unhappy piece of work like her?'.And the answer was, I couldn't. Julianne is a totally unlikable character, similar friends,who are just as consumerist savvy as her and give her the wrong advice.My advice to her would have been, forget the wedding, get over yourself, get new friends, and come back down to earth and live in the real world for a few days, you are not that important really......But saying that,the rest of the characters are just as plastic and as false as each other and are a million miles away from 'real' people. It seems to me that the writers believe that everyone has to be rich, live in wonderful apartments, have jobs they love, and have dinner parties every night.Well, that's not the case for 98% of the population of the planet! a little bit of reality would be nice now and again.A horrible film, full of hateful, plastic characters, horrible scenarios, and embarrassing, cringeworthy dialogue.The most anti-romantic comedy. Would make an ideal double bill with Sex and The City 2, just to tell you that rich people can be unhappy too!!!!Thanks film makers....

Julianne Potter (Julia Roberts) is a relationship-phobic food critic. Her best friend is her ex Michael O'Neal (Dermot Mulroney). They have a pact to get married at 28 if there is no other prospects. She is about to turn 28. When he calls her, she thinks it's about their pact but it turns out that he is getting married to giddy bad-singing Kimberly Wallace (Cameron Diaz). Julianne is shocked and jealous. She starts to a scheme to separate the couple with the help of her gay editor friend George Downes (Rupert Everett).This could have been a darker subversive plot as the story follows Julianne's scheming ways. However Julia Roberts does it so adorably that it is a very light fun romp. If there is somebody more adorable, it has to be Cameron Diaz. Rupert Everett has some great joyous scenes. Dermot Mulroney is a little stiff but he fits the role. I am glad that it ends the way that it did. The songs are a hoot, and Diaz's laugh is infectious.