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A USA Today column devil. Hale, a community with character. A Best Friend's Wedding ending!
Maggie Carpenter has an alcoholic father, whom she must rescue each time the bar contacts her after her father becomes drunk and disruptive. Maggie can't have a normal relationship when her father goes on his drinking binge. Maggie's mother is dead, so Maggie feels responsible to care for her father. Maggie does not have any siblings. Maggie keeps her father's drinking problems a secret and well protected from the community. Maggie's father comments are mentally cruel and he provokes others too critically laughs at Maggie marriage failures telling everyone, "she might not be the longest run joke in Hale but she certainly is the fastest." How can Maggie make a commitment to take care of anyone else when her father problems consume all her attention?

Maggie has a tough time making a decision. The sub theme of how she likes her eyes runs throught the length of the movie. The point being that Maggie wants too experience life more than make tough decisions. Maggie wants the best, but she can't have the her dream. So, Maggie continues to act out her compulsion too try out different preparations for eggs. Maggie eventually decides she does not like eggs and prefers Eggs Benedict. humm, lets see, four grooms to decide what type of egg she likes. Now that is abnormal behavior. Something is seriously wrong with Maggie.

Maggie works her charm on five grooms and runs away from each of them. Each of the grooms deeply loves Maggie and feels pain and hurt each time she abandonment them.

Graham is the "last minute man" and delivers his article one hour before deadline. One woman patron of the bar accuses Graham of writing "bitter diatribes about women". Gill Chauvez overhears Graham's conversation with the woman and after she leaves the bar tells Graham, "I've seen much worst", "the brush off", "castigation in private", "they love you and they hate you." Graham learns from Gill about the runaway bride, Maggie Carpenter and Graham. Graham decides to use the events of the Runaway Bride in his next news article. In the article, Graham writes about the battle of the sexes calling encounters with women, "the running of the bulls", "female stereotypes still exist", "female archetypes are active and alive", and "women steal taxis ride and they overpower with perfume in the elevators" ; Graham then writes that Maggie Carpenter, "the runaway bride" is the new Goddess that devours her grooms.

The Joke: Maggie thinks her relatives stage the article as a practical joke, stating, "this is the rudest and most offensive joke". Maggie learns the editor of the paper is a woman. Maggie tells the editor about 15 factual errors in the article, "fiction called fact", wanting "Graham's article on the platter"; the lawyers agree with Maggie and the editor tells Graham, "you fabricated your facts" and "your fired". Graham loses his job permanently. Fisher decides to give Graham a chance to vindicate himself and demonstrate his theory is correct.

Don't be deceived by Graham. Graham is a reporter devil and sets out to research Maggie. Graham meets Maggie and tells her "I'm not trying to make you look bad. I'm looking for vindication. Your going to run again." Maggie is no slacker having majored in Industrial design at college on a American legion scholarship. Maggie's is engaged too Bob. Bob is the high school football coach and has climbed Mount Everest twice.

Graham has divorce written all over his face. Both Maggie and Graham do not understand love. Even when Graham wins Maggie, he fails to show her love and mistakes physical attraction for true love. Maggie quotes Graham line that marriage will be tough and at time someone will want out, but if he does not ask for love there will be only regret; that is a lie. Marriage is a beautiful union and love does not die, it grows. Couples in love - do not want out, instead they work together, the grow together, they sacrifice together; they are never are disloyal too each other; and when they are old, they love each other more than the day they meet.

Maggie and Graham encounter, each other, again at Betty Trout's Wedding cakes business. Maggie tells Betty, "he is not a nice person."

The Nefarious exits. Maggie tells Brian Norris, "Brian, I'm sorry I've hurt you". George Swilling learns that tattooed rose was a phony and claims a "broken heart" on disclosure of this knowledge.

Maggie flirting dangerous threatens her friendship with Peggy Fleming. Maggie and Corrie Fleming had dated each other. Corrie is a radio host on "Wake up with Fleming". Peggy becomes jealous when Maggie flirts with Corrie. Peggy confronts Maggie, levels about the flirtation, and placates by demeaning herself. Peggy has no self-image or confidence in herself and agrees basically that Maggie flirtations are not wrong because Corrie is not interested in her.

Humor failed. The humor through the whole movie just didn't work. Maggie's character was not funny. Graham was not funny. The pokes at humor seemed to be a crude attempt to filling in the lack of consistent intensity in the film: for example, the Miss Congeniality scene where Maggie is wearing combat boots under her wedding dress, Maggie swing around on the wedding bell rope, and Maggie standing in front of the fan.

These two are theives and they steal each others hearts. Graham falls for Maggie's charms, but ends up run after her. Maggie liked the attention Graham offered her: $650 offer to interview her, helping her buy the $1,000 wedding dress, the rude toast at her pre-wedding party, and stealing her affection during the wedding rehearsal. Graham does not love Maggie. Maggie does not want a permanent relationship with Graham. Both live in a fantasy world where love is not a reality. The conclusion of the movie is no different than "My Best friends Wedding", two lonely people without purpose.

The music track was excellent. I enjoyed the music. I enjoyed the background scenery with the reds and gold leaves and rolling hills. Maggie screamed too much and it was annoying. I found the humor boring. The movie was too long. The city of Hale was fun and a movie could be based on life in Hale. I think the movie did a good job protraying the character of the community and its citizens, a Soap Opera city.



Unbelievably bad.
If you are allergic to movies that have an overkill of "cuteness," be sure to have a barfbag handy, when you watch this one. Luckily, I recorded it from TV, skimmed to the end just to make sure it did have the required happy ending, and then erased it. If I had actually owned it, I would have burned it.

I liked it
Richard Gere was totally unlikeable through about the first 3/4 of the flick, he was contemptuous and contemptible, and I couldn't shake the feeling that he didn't give a damn about the movie, he was there for the money. But when he started being nice, he was very likeable, as was Julia Roberts from beginning to end. One other negative note. I hate movies that play this garbage that passes for music during every "significant" scene. It is distracting and maddening and very bad music, and it is usually sung by people who make me think of those people who are called artists if they can scream loud enough. No skill, no talent, just lung-power and what they call feeling. Artists! My butt!

I thought the movie was too long, but I enjoyed it, watching it as I usually do movies in 15 or 20 minute segments over a period of several days. I thought it was complex enough to be interesting, and this due to the various characters. Lots of the lines were dead-on. Everyone acted his part to the hilt. It wasn't particularly funny, but it was fun and warm, and I don't think it was supposed to be funny. I'm gay and I love Julia Roberts (in comedies only, no interest in anything serious), and I was told while watching it by my best friend who is straight that Julia Roberts is the new gay icon because she is vulnerable. Maybe so. I don't know how any other gays feel about her because I don't know any other gays, but I love her. I recommend this movie with the above reservations, mainly the length. It was amusing and interesting. And as for Julia Roberts (who is a wonderful comedy actress as well as being beautiful), she reminds me (in keeping with the orientation) of an Oscar Wilde remark. The tragedy of age is not that one grows old, but that one stays young.

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