They usually involve more stereotypical representations of neurotic women, naggy, insecurity or all of the above, they are crowded with corny slapstick and they culminated with a mad dash to an airport or train station for some gasped, last minute I-love-yous frequently.
But pas of all films of marriage are steeped in the worst clichés rom - com. Some have brains and wit and even a bit of innovation. Therefore, with "something borrowed" and "Jump the broom" opening this week and "Bridesmaids" coming out next week, here are five flicks on wedding that will make you actually mean "Do."
-"the philadelphia story" (1940): Pretty much romantic comedy classic the - or at least, it must prominently featured in any conversation on the best of its kind. The players are all at the top of their game of Oscar-winner George Cukor on the play by Philip Barry. Katharine Hepburn is alive and radiant - and any box-office poison - as worldly Tracy Lord, who is about to remarry. But then her ex-husband (Cary Grant) and a journalist for the magazine (Jimmy Stewart) occur just before the ceremony, and all the classy plans get lifted upside down. It is a loving affection of high society and the very definition of snappy banter.
-"the princess Bride" (1987): a fairy tale screwball with an excellent cast, clever details and much energy and heart. And it is easily one of the best films of the Rob Reiner made - over there with "This is Spinal Tap". Peter Falk grandson (a young Fred Savage) reads a story on the princes, the swordfights, pirates, rats and, ultimately, true love. The beautiful Buttercup (Robin Wright) prepares to marry the Prince Humperdinck (Chris Sarandon), which she doesn't like. His heart is still owned by Westley (Cary Elwes), which she believed that he died. But, on the eve of her marriage, guess that removes him? Billy Crystal, Carol Kane, Andre the giant, Mandy Patinkin and Wallace Shawn get conventional lines, but Peter Cook as a member of the clergy with a speech disorder, said the word "marriage" to always cracks me up all these years later.
-"Muriel's wedding" (1994): a little known Toni Collette and Rachel Griffiths, both in their first major film, have a delicious chemistry in this charm Australian female friendship and the cult of ABBA. Collette stars as Muriel Heslop, a romantic welcome, desperate that pure in suburban poverty and the dreams of the day, it will go down the aisle. Disorder, she never even had a date. But, while she meets the character Griffiths, Rhonda, firecrackers which throws him out of his doldrums and becomes its a true pal. Film director-screenwriter P.J. Hogan is sweet, funny, heartbreaking and, therefore, very honest. (Three years later, Hogan would go to "my best friend his marriage," which includes several conventions that we mentioned at the beginning of.)
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