Competition between the maid of honor and a bridesmaid, over who is the bride's best friend, threatens to upend the life of an out-of-work pastry chef.Competition between the maid of honor and a bridesmaid, over who is the bride's best friend, threatens to upend the life of an out-of-work pastry chef.Competition between the maid of honor and a bridesmaid, over who is the bride's best friend, threatens to upend the life of an out-of-work pastry chef.
- Nominated for 2 Oscars
- 25 wins & 72 nominations total
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- TriviaIt was originally intended that Chris O'Dowd's cop would be American, but everyone was so enamored of O'Dowd's native Irish accent that it was decided that he keep it.
- GoofsWhen Annie receives the shower invitation it reads "Sat." as the day. When Annie's car breaks down on the day of the shower, and Ted picks her up, she asks him, "Were you busy?" and he answers, "Well, it is Friday."
- Quotes
Helen: [sobbing] Why are smiling?
Annie: It's just... it's the first time I've ever seen you look ugly. And that makes me kind of happy.
Helen: [starts to laugh through her tears] I look ugly? No, I don't. I don't really look ugly.
Annie: A little bit. You're an ugly crier. But that's okay.
Helen: No, I'm not really an ugly crier.
Annie: Maybe just a little bit.
Helen: No.
Annie: Just a little bit.
Helen: It's just my make-up. But I still look pretty good.
- Alternate versionsThe 131-minute unrated version contains several additional scenes as follows:
- The conversation between Annie (Kristen Wiig) and Mother (Jill Clayburgh) is slightly longer with Mother telling her about Father's "chicken coop" sex act, and it also reveals that Annie's father grew up in a farm.
- Becca (Ellie Kemper) mocks Annie for being single and offers to arrange a date for her.
- The car ride with Lillian (Maya Rudolph) and Annie after the bridal store fiasco is longer and different than the theatrical version. In the new cut, after Lilian admits crapping her wedding dress, Annie starts to feel uncomfortable, gets out of the car and throws up.
- When Annie is at the bathroom, Gil (Matt Lucas) and his sister were in the bathtub together. He asks Annie to hand her the disposable shaver and shaves his sister's armpits.
- There's a new 5-minute scene where Annie has a date with a guy called Pete. While waiting at the living room for Pete to get ready, she has a very uncomfortable conversation with his son Taylor (he's talking about "fear of dying", asking about Annie replacing his mother, etc.). After Annie goes upstairs, she overhears Pete talking on the phone telling his wife how he missed her and describes Annie as unattractive. Shocked by that, she went back downstairs and saw Taylor taking some contraceptive pills before leaving the house hastily.
- The home video of Megan (Melissa McCarthy) and Jon (Ben Falcone) is slightly longer. She sticks a slice of ham on his chest and eats them. However, Jon's reaction doesn't tell whether he likes it or not.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The Tonight Show with Jay Leno: Episode #19.135 (2011)
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Written by Debbie Harry (as Deborah Harry) and Chris Stein
Performed by Blondie
Courtesy of Capitol Records
Under license from EMI Film & Television Music
First goes to the actors. Kristen Wiig's is a brilliant comedian. Her craziness and charisma really made the show aside from the humor. Maya Rudolph gives a lot of heart to her role. Melissa McCarthy has the best parts and she nearly steals the show. The rest of the cast did a great job to this film.
Bridesmaids is not as generic as the other female comedies existing. The story isn't really that original but it portrays in a realistic way. Not quite realistic but it's not an escapist love story where the main girl is perfect human being but a loser. Aside from the love story plot, the parts when she is being jealous to her best friend's new friend. There's mixed emotions and comedy to those scenes. Paul Feig knows how to put humor plus heart perfectly in a comedy film.
The humor is written by clever writers even the star of this film. What we expect to this film, it's hilarious throughout. The raunchy humor and some toilet humor mixed with heartfelt emotions and awkwardness. It's (obviously) one of the merits of this film.
Most people say this film is like The Hangover but with female cast. The Hangover is more clever but this one is more hilarious and more heart than you expect. The performances plus the hilarious humor, this film is easily one of the funniest female comedies ever although it's unnecessarily long but it's undeniably enjoyable(even if you're a guy).
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- Jul 26, 2011
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- Also known as
- Phù Dâu
- Filming locations
- 2501 South Kinnickinnic Avenue, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA(Annie's apartment exterior)
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- Budget
- $32,500,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $169,106,725
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $26,247,410
- May 15, 2011
- Gross worldwide
- $306,442,085
- Runtime2 hours 5 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 2.39 : 1