Runaway Bride (1999)
Country: US
Technical: col/2.39:1 116m
Director: Garry Marshall
Cast: Julia Roberts, Richard Gere, Joan Cusack, Hector Elizondo, Rita Wilson, Christopher Meloni
Synopsis:
A New York columnist gets fired over an under-researched article about an upstate girl who serially stands her grooms up at the altar. Determined to justify himself, he moves into her town and begins stalking her.
Review:
With the least likely premise for a romantic comedy imaginable, this woebegone enterprise reunites several players from 1990's Pretty Woman in a cynical attempt to rekindle that movie's one-off charm. No doubt uncomfortably aware of PW's less than feminist sexual politics and Reagan-era consumer appeal, Marshall's writers make Roberts a hardware store manager and Gere an embittered divorcee with an axe to grind against women (bad Richard needs softening up, poor Julia needs some understanding); and, hey presto... there is no emotional charge between them. This is not a wish-fulfilment fantasy, it's a story of two messed up people who therefore must somehow belong with each other. It also came in the thick of a sustained Hollywood assault on the institution of marriage.
Country: US
Technical: col/2.39:1 116m
Director: Garry Marshall
Cast: Julia Roberts, Richard Gere, Joan Cusack, Hector Elizondo, Rita Wilson, Christopher Meloni
Synopsis:
A New York columnist gets fired over an under-researched article about an upstate girl who serially stands her grooms up at the altar. Determined to justify himself, he moves into her town and begins stalking her.
Review:
With the least likely premise for a romantic comedy imaginable, this woebegone enterprise reunites several players from 1990's Pretty Woman in a cynical attempt to rekindle that movie's one-off charm. No doubt uncomfortably aware of PW's less than feminist sexual politics and Reagan-era consumer appeal, Marshall's writers make Roberts a hardware store manager and Gere an embittered divorcee with an axe to grind against women (bad Richard needs softening up, poor Julia needs some understanding); and, hey presto... there is no emotional charge between them. This is not a wish-fulfilment fantasy, it's a story of two messed up people who therefore must somehow belong with each other. It also came in the thick of a sustained Hollywood assault on the institution of marriage.
Country: US
Technical: col/2.39:1 116m
Director: Garry Marshall
Cast: Julia Roberts, Richard Gere, Joan Cusack, Hector Elizondo, Rita Wilson, Christopher Meloni
Synopsis:
A New York columnist gets fired over an under-researched article about an upstate girl who serially stands her grooms up at the altar. Determined to justify himself, he moves into her town and begins stalking her.
Review:
With the least likely premise for a romantic comedy imaginable, this woebegone enterprise reunites several players from 1990's Pretty Woman in a cynical attempt to rekindle that movie's one-off charm. No doubt uncomfortably aware of PW's less than feminist sexual politics and Reagan-era consumer appeal, Marshall's writers make Roberts a hardware store manager and Gere an embittered divorcee with an axe to grind against women (bad Richard needs softening up, poor Julia needs some understanding); and, hey presto... there is no emotional charge between them. This is not a wish-fulfilment fantasy, it's a story of two messed up people who therefore must somehow belong with each other. It also came in the thick of a sustained Hollywood assault on the institution of marriage.