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Genres:
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Comedy /
Romance
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Director:
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Gary Winick
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Actors:
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John Pankow,
Bryan Greenberg,
Kristen Johnston,
Michael Arden,
June Diane Raphael,
Zoe O'Grady,
Shannon Ferber,
Charles Bernard,
Kate Hudson,
Anne Hathaway,
Chris Pratt,
Steve Howey,
Candice Bergen,
Victor Slezak,
Kelly Coffield Park
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Duration:
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89 min.
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Rating:
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(5.3/10)199.5
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Plot Summary:
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Liv (Kate Hudson) and Emma (Anne Hathaway) are best friends who since childhood take planned every detail of their individual weddings. At the top of their bridal "must tease" list: a ceremony at Unique York's ultimate wedding destination, the Plaza Guest-house. In, at age 26, they're both about to step down married; they're about to make their dreams; and they're about to live cheerfully ever after. When a clerical clanger causes a clash in intermixing dates - they're for the nonce to be married on the yet date! - Liv, Emma and their lifelong conviviality are delay to the f... undamental analysis. Liv, a best-selling lawyer who is adapted to to getting what she wants, including the perfect ass and the exquisite valet, won't locate light instead of anything less than the skilful wedding she has dreamed of repayment for years. Emma, a schoolteacher who has unceasingly been good at prepossessing care of others, but not so much in looking after herself, discovers her inner Bridezilla and comes at liberty swinging when her own dream commingling is imperiled.
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Bride Wars
Todd McCarthyEven the climactic catfight in chiffon doesn't pay off in Bride Wars, a shrill, mechanical comedy dedicated to the proposition that a wedding that doesn't take place at the Plaza Hotel is scarcely worth having at all. As top-billed Kate Hudson takes a producer credit here, she can no longer blame anyone else for poor scripts she accepts with uncanny consistency -- 10 in a row at this point -- whereas co-star Anne Hathaway can chalk it up to a well-accoutered payday. Males will be as scarce as hens' teeth at theaters showing Fox's first 2009 release, but the prospect of watching the two stars shop, plan and then try to undermine each other's weddings guarantees a fair portion of the Sex and the City audience will consider this a good excuse for a girls'night ...
Bride Wars
Claudia PuigBride Wars is about as funny as a cringingly awkward wedding toast. On top of a noticeable lack of humor, it's absurdly sexist and mired in retro stereotypes. It might as well proclaim up front that all young woman care about is landing their MRS. Liv (Kate Hudson) and Emma (Anne Hathaway) are lifelong pals who have nursed a girlhood dream to marry at the Plaza. When their respective boyfriends propose within days of each other, they go to New York City's most sought-after wedding planner (Candice Bergen) to set their dates. An assistant goofs and the two are booked for the same day in adjoining rooms. When neither will agree to change her wedding date, their friendship turns to bitter enmity. Both women stoop to inane and unrealistic shenanigans...
Bride Wars
Betsy SharkeyIt's no secret that there is big money to be made in the wedding business. Depending on the source, it's a thriving $50-billion- to $75-billion-a-year industry -- enough that if everyone agreed to take a year off, we could personally bail out the auto industry. All of which makes weddings and the cortege they spawn ripe for satire, farce and completely irreverent handling by Hollywood.
Now here comes Bride Wars, all dressed in white and hoping to cash in on that obsession. In director Gary Winick's new film, the idea of romance and love is completely sidelined by the brides' burning desire to have the perfect wedding. (By perfect, I mean statistically better than anyone else's, particularly your best friend's.) Envy rather than happily-ever-after...
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