My Best Friend's Wedding (1997)

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Rating: PG-13

Release Date: Jun 20, 1997

Running Time: 105 mins. (V)

Country Of Origin: United States

starring: Julia Roberts, Dermot Mulroney, Cameron Diaz, Rupert Everett, Philip Bosco, M Emmet Walsh, Rachel Griffiths, Carrie Preston, Susan Sullivan, Christopher Masterson

director: P.J. Hogan

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.

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My Best Friend's Wedding

764/65 7/10-24/97
The script falters, ditto the pace, and there's a gap in the area that the star of Ellen calls "man-woman sex." But don't bother fighting this sparkler of a romantic comedy. Julia Roberts glitters like gold dust, and she is ideally partnered with Rupert Everett, who gives a witty, wicked, bust-out performance, Just wait till you hear him lead a restaurant in a sing-along of the late-'60s Burt Bacharach anthem "I Say a Little Prayer." Nothing erotic for…