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My Best Friend's Wedding
Sony Pictures Entertainment


9.1

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MPAA RATING: PG-13 for one use of strong language and brief sex-related humor

Starring Julia Roberts, Dermot Mulroney, Cameron Diaz, Rupert Everett, Philip Bosco, M. Emmet Walsh, Rachel Griffiths, and Susan Sullivan

Best friends since college, Jules (Roberts) and Michael (Mulroney) made a pact that if neither had found someone to love by the age of 28, they would marry each other. Now it's their 28th year of life, and Michael just popped the question. There's only one problem: he popped it to someone else. (Sony Pictures Entertainment)

GENRE(S):	Romance
WRITTEN BY:	Ronald Bass
DIRECTED BY:	P.J. Hogan
RELEASE DATE:	DVD: August 28, 2001 Video: December 28, 1999 Theatrical: June 20, 1997
RUNNING TIME:	105 minutes, Color
ORIGIN:	USA

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...

Variety Leonard Klady

Ultimately, My Best Friend's Wedding works for some very old-fashioned reasons: It skillfully engages us in the story and its characters. And, for no additional cost, it has something to say about how we live, act, commit and relate.

San Francisco Chronicle Ruthe Stein

The real casting disaster is Mulroney. His blandness in the role makes it impossible to believe two beautiful women would fight over him.

Chicago Tribune Mark Caro

More thoughtful than advertised. And as a confection, it's less sweet and more flavorful than your average wedding cake. [20 June 1997]

Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

One of the pleasures of Ronald Bass' screenplay is the way it subverts the usual comic formulas that would fuel a plot like this.

ReelViews James Berardinelli

The film makers understand that it's possible for a romantic comedy to appeal not only to the heart, but to the mind as well.

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Rick Groen

Although there are definite lags here, those "glittering" set-pieces are funny enough (at least one is hilarious) to stave off any prolonged yawns.

Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt

Julia Roberts is brighter and spunkier than usual, and Rupert Everett steals the show.

Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan

Feels repetitive at times, but its star power and willingness to undercut convention come through at the end.

Film.com Sean Means

Best of all are the supporting players. Everett (who played the Prince of Wales in "The Madness of King George") is smartly urbane, giving a polished refinement to the stereotypical "gay best buddy'' role.

Austin Chronicle Russell Smith

It does effectively recall those bygone days when impossibly attractive, charming, and endearingly flawed characters dressed to kill, smoked like creosote plants, and behaved atrociously on the way to rapturous romantic consummation.

USA Today Susan Wloszczyna

Mulroney is a drip with not a milliliter of chemistry with either woman. Roberts doesn't really seem to care about him so much as the fact that life is passing her by. Though, that may be the point.

Newsweek David Ansen

A romantic comedy for an era of diminished expectations.

TV Guide Staff (Not Credited)

This amiable comedy may not be hugely sophisticated, but Hogan does manage to make his attractive leads look like complete idiots, no mean achievement in image-obsessed Hollywood.

Rolling Stone Staff (Not Credited)

Julia Roberts glitters like gold dust, and she is ideally partnered with Rupert Everett, who gives a witty, wicked, bust-out performance.

Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman

And when [Roberts is] on screen with Mulroney, who seems a frat-house jerk -- all dimples and a perma-tan -- we don't feel much of anything.

Chicago Reader Lisa Alspector

The draggy narrative of this 1997 comedy is tough to sit through--there are even several overproduced musical numbers--but it does have an intriguing subversive element that I don't want to give away.

Time Richard Schickel

When our sympathies shift to [Cameron Diaz's Kimmy], the movie sours. It is no help either that Ronald Bass neglected to write (or Mulroney was unable to find) a character in Michael. Why all this fuss over this lox, we keep wondering.

The Onion (A.V. Club) Stephen Thompson

Just as crippling is the movie's tendency to waver back and forth between black comedy and Nora Ephron-esque schmaltz.

The New York Times Elvis Mitchell

Obtuse, prettily decorative comedy. Characters burst gaily into song when, as often happens, they don't have anything better to do.

LA Weekly Ella Taylor

As [Roberts'] gay best friend, Rupert Everett is the only one with any backbone, any sense of humor or any decent lines.

Washington Post Rita Kempley

The story isn’t bright enough or grand enough to contain all of Roberts’s star power.

The New Republic Stanley Kauffmann

We get the feeling that, about nine-tenths of the way along, after he had all the characters knotted up, Bass suddenly thought, "Good heavens! I've got to find some way to finish off this thing." The way that he found is lame and makes a hash of what precedes it. [28 July 1997]

Washington Post Stephen Hunter

Poor Roberts, pretty and perky as the day is long, hasn't a hoot in hell of bringing Julianne off. She's simply not actress enough, she doesn't have that suppleness that would enable her to sell the complexity of emotion, the jealousy, the irrationality, the meanness and the intelligence.

The average user rating for this movie is 9.1 (out of 10) based on 13 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Brandon d. gave it an8:
Ten years after the movie came out in theaters, I am watching it on TBS television while on vacation in Orlando, FL. Movies on TV usually do not interest me, but MBFW is funny, bright, well acted, and just a good romantic movie. I guess a gorgeous Julie Roberts held my attention and that's good since she had the camera for most of the picture. The plot is a pre-wedding love triangle and it easy to get caught up in the threesome's predicament and try to figure out who is going to win the cute boy. I had seen the movie before, but never did figure out who, since none of three were models of honesty in their relationships.

Autumn M. gave it a7:
I agree that Rupert commands the screen. I think the movie soured as it said sexual desire is more important then promises and best friends. I also agree that it felt like they had to end the movie and they chose the wrong characters. It left me feeling that it didn't fullfill the silver screen " girl gets boy , boy gets girl scenario". It should have been Julia Robert, then it would have had the makings of " happily ever after".

frank bentez gave it a10:
loved it....smartest romantic comedy in many years in all respects

Joe B. gave it a9:
This proves that the critics don't count. The critics were very blah on this movie but the people who saw it loved it. It's very good.

Christian G. gave it a9:
I'm really impressed it got a 50 in the metascore. Julia Roberts and Rupert Everett are charming to death. Off course is not a deep movie, but surely it's entertaining and engaging. Something that not most movies can say.

Boo I. gave it a 10:
Definitely a 10 for me.. all thumbs up... my favourite movie ever! love it.. and still loving it..

Gilbert gave it an 8:
51? FIFTY-ONE? Nuh-uh. It's not a masterpiece of cinematic complexity, but it's a wonderfully watchable, frequently very funny little rom-com (pauses to wash mouth out with soap). Catch it if you can. With a rope.

My Best Friend's Wedding Sony Pictures Entertainment

My Best Friend's Wedding
Sony Pictures Entertainment