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Muriel's Wedding
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
DVD Layers: 1
DVD Sides: 1
EAN: 9780788814952
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0788814958
Label: Miramax
Languages: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 SurroundEnglish (Subtitled),
Manufacturer: Miramax
MPN: D16542D
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Letterbox
Publisher: Miramax
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 18, 1999
Running Time: 105 minutes
Studio: Miramax
Theatrical Release Date: March 10, 1995
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Editorial Review:
Ever since the late '70s when the Australian New Wave was in full surge, Down Under directors have delivered movies that often hit you like news from another planet. Offbeat characters, weird narrative twists, and a tart mixture of laughs and catastrophe--this is the juice that fuels such flicks as Proof, The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, Strictly Ballroom, Heavenly Creatures, and most certainly Muriel's Wedding. Directed by P.J. Hogan (who would go on to helm the Hollywood hit My Best Friend's Wedding), this little gem follows tradition by featuring an authentic misfit: Muriel (Toni Collette), a great overweight horse of a girl obsessed with getting married and the music of ABBA. Appropriately, we first meet Muriel at a wedding, all trussed up in a leopardskin number she's boosted for the occasion. When her snotty peers insist that she give up the bridal bouquet to someone who might actually get hitched, when one of the guests turns out to be a clerk in the very store where Muriel ripped off her outfit--you gotta laugh, she's such an unmitigated mess. A loser, her philandering politician father (Bill Hunter) calls her--along with his doormat wife and his other couch-potato offspring. But this movie's no exercise in geek-bashing. As Muriel takes up with feisty Rhonda (Rachel Griffiths) and moves from Porpoise Spit to the big city, her good-hearted grin and zest for life draw us in despite hilarious gaffes and mishaps. (Making out with a boy for the first time, Muriel suddenly finds herself awash in styrofoam: the oaf has unzipped the beanbag chair instead of her skin-tight leather pants.) Muriel's Wedding covers territory Hollywood would banish from a comedy--Rhonda's cancer, the suicide of Muriel's mother, a marriage of convenience to an arrogant athlete--yet, like its heroine, it never loses its sense of humor, its will to move on to whatever good thing might happen next. Everyone in the idiosyncratic cast is terrific, but it's Toni Collette's Dancing Queen who makes Muriel's Wedding a cinematic celebration you won't forget. --Kathleen Murphy
Hysterically funny, fresh, and brimming with wit, MURIEL'S WEDDING is the comedy hit celebrated by critics nationwide! No one ever paid much attention to Muriel and her humdrum small-town life, so she and her best friend, Rhonda, decide to leave it behind and head for the big city ... where they end up having the exciting adventure of their lives! What's more, soon everyone takes notice when Muriel becomes engaged to a handsome and popular sports hero! You'll love every hilarious minute as Muriel discovers that even when it seems all her dreams are coming true, the path to the altar still has plenty of surprising twists!
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - If you like Mamma Mia! it's time to rediscover Muriel
I saw the new Mamma Mia! movie last night and it was fun, but it could not hold a candle to Muriel's Wedding, which is my favorite ABBA-themed movie (wedding-themed and ABBA-themed, quite a specialized genre!).
Muriel's Wedding is not a full-on musical, but features ABBA music throughout (including Dancing Queen, Waterloo, and Fernando) as sad-sack Muriel dreams of leaving her dead-end existence in Porpoise Spit behind for life in the big city and hopefully, a fantasy wedding. The lack ... Read More
Rating:  - Just love the movie
This movie touched me, I bought it to see it over and over again. I also love Abba music.
Rating: - Muriel's Wedding-A fun flick from begining to end!
This retro-review is for the widescreen version of "Muriel's Wedding",still available as of this writing and at a steal of a price.
This is one movie I pull out again and again and it never disappoints no matter how many times I've see it.
Toni Collette(in her 3rd movie) stars as the overweight Muriel Heslop.The movie is in three "acts","The bouquet","Sydney,city of brides" and "The Wedding".
It opens with Muriel amongst a throng of other wedding attendees catching the bridal bouquet.Her ... Read More
Rating:  - Chick Flick with Charm
Calling "Muriel's Wedding" a "chick flick" is not to be disrespectful to this poignant film about an Ugly Duckling who evolves - not into a Swan, but into a human being released from the conviction that life is only worth living as a Swan, and that there is only one kind of Swan - the pretty, married kind. It's a chick flick not because it's shallow, but because few women will have trouble relating to the anguish experienced by its main character, the socially afflicted, gauche Muriel Heslop. I don't say ... Read More
Rating: - cannot beat the price on Amazon for classics
If you are an Abba fan, toni collette fan....like a semi-dark comedy...this is a pretty good cult classic.....a fun one for movie night with the friends
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