The Wedding Planner My Best Friend's Wedding (Romantic Comedy Double Feature)

The Wedding Planner A featherweight romantic comedy that's purportedly set in San Francisco but takes place in a parallel universe where Jennifer Lopez is Sicilian and spends her Friday nights watching "Antiques Roadshow." Lopez's Mary, the wedding planner of the title, falls for one of her clients (Matthew McConaughey), and as he twangs his way into her heart, the movie's chief gag consists of an Italian suitor with a funny accent. --Michael Agger Copyright © 2006 The New Yorker My Best Friend's Wedding One of the best romantic comedies of the 1990s, My Best Friend's Wedding not only gave Julia Roberts a delightful vehicle for her crowd-pleasing comeback, but it further distinguished itself by avoiding the conventional plotting of the genre. Julia plays a prominent Chicago restaurant critic whose best friend (Dermot Mulroney) is a former lover from her college days with whom she'd made a binding pact: if neither of them were married by the age of 28, they'd marry each other. Just when they're about to reach the deadline of their agreement, Mulroney arrives in Chicago to introduce Roberts to his seemingly perfect fiancée (Cameron Diaz) and announce their wedding in just three days. That leaves the shocked Julia with just three short days to sabotage the wedding and marry the man she now realizes she's loved all along. With potential heartbreak waiting in the wings, she'll either get what she wants or pay the price for her selfish behavior, and Ronald Bass's cleverly constructed screenplay keeps us guessing to the very end. Rupert Everett scored rave reviews for his scene-stealing performance as Robert's gay friend who goes along with her scheming (but only so far), and even as she makes her character's needy desperation disarmingly appealing, Roberts wisely allows Diaz to capitalize on her charming time in the spotlight. As the romantic outcome remains uncertain, the viewer is held in a state of giddy suspense, and director P.J. Hogan pulls off some hilarious scenes (like a restaurant full of people singing the Dionne Warwick hit "I Say a Little Prayer") that could easily have fallen flat in the hands of a less talented filmmaker. It's no surprise that this was one of the box-office smashes of 1997. --Jeff Shannon

Detalles del producto Relación de aspecto : 2.35:1 Descatalogado por el fabricante : No Clasificación de MPAA : PG-13 (Parents Strongly Cautioned) Dimensiones del paquete : 7,44 x 5,35 x 0,59 pulgadas; 4,8 Onzas Número de modelo del producto : 043396252844 Formato multimedia : NTSC, Formatos múltiples, Closed-captioned, Color Tiempo de ejecución : 3 horas y 29 minutos Fecha de lanzamiento : Abril 22, 2008 Actores : McConaughey, Matthew, Roberts, Julia Estudio : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment ASIN : B0013D8LHC Número de discos : 2 Clasificación en los más vendidos de Amazon: nº124,881 en Películas y TV (Ver el Top 100 en Películas y TV) nº4,930 en Romance (Películas y TV) nº13,819 en Comedia (Películas y TV) nº20,545 en DVDs de Drama Opiniones de clientes: 4.7 4.7 de 5 estrellas 95 calificaciones Relación de aspecto : 2.35:1 Descatalogado por el fabricante : No Clasificación de MPAA : PG-13 (Parents Strongly Cautioned) Dimensiones del paquete : 7,44 x 5,35 x 0,59 pulgadas; 4,8 Onzas Número de modelo del producto : 043396252844 Formato multimedia : NTSC, Formatos múltiples, Closed-captioned, Color Tiempo de ejecución : 3 horas y 29 minutos Fecha de lanzamiento : Abril 22, 2008 Actores : McConaughey, Matthew, Roberts, Julia Estudio : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment ASIN : B0013D8LHC Número de discos : 2