My Best Friend's Wedding — Julia Roberts, Sony Pictures / TriStar (DVD, 1997)

In VERY GOOD condition! As pictured! Buy with confidence!

Product Details

• UPC: 5996255732252
• Catalog Number: HU25241LC (disc ID: D6-25241DE-ST; distribution F/6786/J)
• Product Type: DVD Video
• Brand / Label: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment / TriStar / Columbia TriStar (Hungarian distribution: InterCom)
• Lead Actor: Julia Roberts
• Director: P.J. Hogan
• Original Film Year: 1997 (© 1997 TriStar Pictures)
• This Edition: cover design © 2010 Sony Pictures
• Genre: Romantic Comedy
• Hungarian Title: Álljon meg a nászmenet!

Product Features

• Format: DVD, single disc — Extra Edition, widescreen
• Running time: approx. 100 minutes
• Picture: Colour, 2.35:1 (16:9 widescreen, uncut — preserves original theatrical ratio)
• Audio: Hungarian, Czech, Polish (2.0 Dolby Surround); English (5.1)
• Subtitles: Hungarian, English, Czech, Polish, Romanian
• Region code: 2 (PAL)
• Rating: 12 (not recommended under 12)
• Copy protected
• Condition: Used — very good; disc and artwork as pictured

Overview

Julia Roberts being gloriously, hopelessly in the wrong. My Best Friend's Wedding hands her one of her sharpest romantic-comedy roles: Julianne Potter, a food critic who realises she's in love with her best friend Michael exactly four days before he's set to marry someone else — and decides, against every better instinct, to sabotage the wedding.

The setup runs on a pact you've probably half-made yourself: if neither of them married by twenty-eight, they'd marry each other. Now twenty-eight has arrived, Michael (Dermot Mulroney) has proposed to bubbly heiress Kimmy (Cameron Diaz), and Julianne has ninety-six hours and a head full of schemes to win him back. The film's secret weapon is that it lets Julianne be genuinely, comically wrong — and gives Rupert Everett the scene-stealing best-friend role that made him a star.

P.J. Hogan directs from Ronald Bass's screenplay, with a James Newton Howard score and a soundtrack that turned "I Say a Little Prayer" into a singalong set piece. This Hungarian Extra Edition is the widescreen cut, region 2, with multi-language audio and subtitles — a tidy disc for Julia Roberts and rom-com collectors.

Interesting Facts

• The film famously breaks the rom-com formula: the "heroine" spends the story trying to break up a wedding, and doesn't get the guy — a gamble that paid off at the box office.
• Rupert Everett's role as Julianne's editor George was expanded after test audiences responded to his scenes, helping revive his Hollywood career.
• The exuberant "I Say a Little Prayer" restaurant sing-along became one of the most-remembered scenes of 1990s romantic comedy.
• It was a major commercial hit, grossing roughly $300 million worldwide and reaffirming Julia Roberts as the queen of the genre.
• Cameron Diaz plays Kimmy early in her career, between The Mask and her later rom-com stardom.
• The screenplay is by Ronald Bass, an Oscar winner for Rain Man.

Publishers Original film © 1997 TriStar Pictures, a Columbia TriStar / Zucker Brothers production directed by P.J. Hogan. Hungarian DVD distributed by InterCom; cover design © 2010 Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. Presented in Dolby Digital, 2.35:1 widescreen (16:9, uncut), Region 2 PAL, approximately 100 minutes.

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