My Best Friend's Wedding (Special Edition)

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One of the best romantic comedies of the 1990s, My Best Friend's Wedding not only gave Julia Roberts a delightful vehicle for her crowd-pleasing comeback, but it further distinguished itself by avoiding the conventional plotting of the genre. Julia plays a prominent Chicago restaurant critic whose best friend (Dermot Mulroney) is a former lover from her college days with whom she'd made a binding pact: if neither of them were married by the age of 28, they'd marry each other. Just when they're about to reach the deadline of their agreement, Mulroney arrives in Chicago to introduce Roberts to his seemingly perfect fiancée (Cameron Diaz) and announce their wedding in just three days. That leaves the shocked Julia with just three short days to sabotage the wedding and marry the man she now realizes she's loved all along. With potential heartbreak waiting in the wings, she'll either get what she wants or pay the price for her selfish behavior, and Ronald Bass's cleverly constructed screenplay keeps us guessing to the very end. Rupert Everett scored rave reviews for his scene-stealing performance as Robert's gay friend who goes along with her scheming (but only so far), and even as she makes her character's needy desperation disarmingly appealing, Roberts wisely allows Diaz to capitalize on her charming time in the spotlight. As the romantic outcome remains uncertain, the viewer is held in a state of giddy suspense, and director P.J. Hogan pulls off some hilarious scenes (like a restaurant full of people singing the Dionne Warwick hit "I Say a Little Prayer") that could easily have fallen flat in the hands of a less talented filmmaker. It's no surprise that this was one of the box-office smashes of 1997. --Jeff Shannon

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Her best friend is getting married.......2007-08-11

and she has the wedding ring stuck on her finger. Never saw this movie before. julia Roberts

Entertaining.......2007-08-09

I enjoyed this deliteful romantic comedy.I am not much of a Julia Roberts fan But I enjoyed her in this movie.

A Great Movie!.......2007-07-21

I hold this movie close to my heart, why you may ask? Because I was going thru the same thing Julia Roberts was going thru in this movie. I was in love with someone who did not belong to me. It was a hot affair 10 years ago that ended disastrously, and I ended up the loser at the end. The lesson here is, Life Goes ON. Julia's performance was so true and honest, she always steals my heart. Great movie!

My Best Friend's Wedding.......2007-05-08

Thanks for getting this DVD to me while I am stationed over seas.

I give it a B..........2007-04-15

I was very glad this movie didn't end up being a silly romance and break the couple up just to rekindle an old relationship! A good watch for a dull Saturday afternoon.

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Her best friend is getting married
Entertaining
A Great Movie!
My Best Friend's Wedding
I give it a B...

My Best Friend's Wedding
Starring: Julia Roberts , Dermot Mulroney , Cameron Diaz , Rupert Everett , and Philip Bosco
Director: P.J. Hogan
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
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ASIN: 0767802683
Release Date: 1997-12-10

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Her best friend is getting married.......2007-08-11

and she has the wedding ring stuck on her finger. Never saw this movie before. julia Roberts

Entertaining.......2007-08-09

I enjoyed this deliteful romantic comedy.I am not much of a Julia Roberts fan But I enjoyed her in this movie.

A Great Movie!.......2007-07-21

My Best Friend's Wedding.......2007-05-08

Thanks for getting this DVD to me while I am stationed over seas.

I give it a B..........2007-04-15

I was very glad this movie didn't end up being a silly romance and break the couple up just to rekindle an old relationship! A good watch for a dull Saturday afternoon.

The Wedding Planner/My Best Friend's Wedding

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really fun movies!!

The Wedding Planner/My Best Friend's Wedding
Starring: Julia Roberts , Dermot Mulroney , Cameron Diaz , Rupert Everett , and Philip Bosco
Director: P.J. Hogan , and Adam Shankman
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ASIN: B000CCBCBC
Release Date: 2006-01-31

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really fun movies!!.......2007-03-22

these movies were a 14th birthday present for my daughter. 2 great "chick flicks" just fun, happy movies to sit down and enjoy together over a bowl of popcorn!

Love Tickles (My Best Friend's Wedding / Sleepless in Seattle / The Wedding Planner / As Good as It Gets)

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The best movies in one

Love Tickles (My Best Friend's Wedding / Sleepless in Seattle / The Wedding Planner / As Good as It Gets)
Starring: Julia Roberts , Dermot Mulroney , Cameron Diaz , Rupert Everett , and Philip Bosco
Director: P.J. Hogan , James L. Brooks , and Nora Ephron
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Release Date: 2001-11-20

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My Best Friend's Wedding
One of the best romantic comedies of the 1990s, My Best Friend's Wedding not only gave Julia Roberts a delightful vehicle for her crowd-pleasing comeback, but it further distinguished itself by avoiding the conventional plotting of the genre. Julia plays a prominent Chicago restaurant critic whose best friend (Dermot Mulroney) is a former lover from her college days with whom she'd made a binding pact: if neither of them were married by the age of 28, they'd marry each other. Just when they're about to reach the deadline of their agreement, Mulroney arrives in Chicago to introduce Roberts to his seemingly perfect fiancée (Cameron Diaz) and announce their wedding in just three days. That leaves the shocked Julia with just three short days to sabotage the wedding and marry the man she now realizes she's loved all along. With potential heartbreak waiting in the wings, she'll either get what she wants or pay the price for her selfish behavior, and Ronald Bass's cleverly constructed screenplay keeps us guessing to the very end. Rupert Everett scored rave reviews for his scene-stealing performance as Robert's gay friend who goes along with her scheming (but only so far), and even as she makes her character's needy desperation disarmingly appealing, Roberts wisely allows Diaz to capitalize on her charming time in the spotlight. As the romantic outcome remains uncertain, the viewer is held in a state of giddy suspense, and director P.J. Hogan pulls off some hilarious scenes (like a restaurant full of people singing the Dionne Warwick hit "I Say a Little Prayer") that could easily have fallen flat in the hands of a less talented filmmaker. It's no surprise that this was one of the box-office smashes of 1997. --Jeff Shannon

Sleepless in Seattle
The director and stars of 1998's You've Got Mail scored a breakthrough hit with this hugely popular romantic comedy from 1993, about a recently engaged woman (Meg Ryan) who hears the sad story of a grieving widower (Tom Hanks) on the radio and believes that they're destined to be together. She's single in New York, he lives in Seattle with a young son, but the cross-country attraction proves irresistible, and pretty soon Meg's on a westbound flight. What happens from there is ... well, you must have been living in a cave to have let this sweet-hearted comedy slip below your pop-cultural radar. There's little complexity or depth to writer-director Nora Ephron's cheesy tale of a romantic fait accompli, and more than a little contrivance to the subplots that threaten to keep Hanks and Ryan from actually meeting. But the purity of star chemistry here is hard to deny, and this may be the first film to indicate the more serious and sympathetic side of Hanks that is revealed in later roles. With its clever jokes about "chick movies" and repeated homage to the classic weeper An Affair to Remember, this may not be everybody's brand of amorous entertainment, but it's got an old-Hollywood charm that appeals to many a movie fan. --Jeff Shannon

The Wedding Planner
The good news is, yes, Jennifer Lopez can do comedy. In The Wedding Planner Lopez is Mary, a lovable woman who believes "those who can't do, teach. Those who can't wed, plan!" Her slapstick moments are lighthearted and she is spot-on as the controlling, compulsive-yet-sweet planner. The bad news is Lopez didn't get much of a vehicle in which to test drive her newfound comedic skills. Mary's life is her career. Planning other people's weddings takes all of her time, leaving no room for a love life of her own. Her only personal life is a Scrabble club, to which she and her father (Alex Rocco, whose wandering Italian accent is painful to listen to) belong. When a handsome young doctor (Matthew McConaughey) saves her from a collision with a runaway dumpster (really, it works), she is instantly wooed by his quiet charm. Too bad he's the fiancé of Mary's biggest client, Fran (played winningly by Bridgette Wilson-Sampras), the job that will launch Mary as a partner in her firm. The main problem with this film is that no one wants to hurt anyone else's feelings. Everyone is just so gosh-darn nice. In a subplot, Mary's father is trying to arrange her marriage to just the nicest Italian boy. Gee, he's sweet. Golly, Fran is nice. Is there ever a way out of this mess and to leave everyone smiling? Yet, there is a touch of old-fashioned romance to this wholesome film, which can only be described as "cute." And while things may unfold in a predictable manner, The Wedding Planner is still lighthearted fun of the sort that inspires dreamy romantic thoughts. --Jenny Brown

As Good as It Gets
For all of its conventional plotting about an obsessive-compulsive curmudgeon (Jack Nicholson) who improves his personality at the urging of his gay neighbor (Greg Kinnear) and a waitress (Helen Hunt) who inspires his best behavior, this is one of the sharpest Hollywood comedies of the 1990s. Nicholson could play his role in his sleep (the Oscar he won should have gone to Robert Duvall for The Apostle), but his mischievous persona is precisely necessary to give heart to his seemingly heartless character, who is of all things a successful romance novelist. As a single mom with a chronically asthmatic young son, Hunt gives the film its conscience and integrity (along with plenty of wry humor), and she also won an Oscar for her wonderful performance. Greg Kinnear had to settle for an Oscar nomination (while cowriter-director James L. Brooks was inexplicably snubbed by Oscar that year), but his work was also singled out in the film's near-unanimous chorus of critical praise. It's questionable whether a romance between Hunt and the much older Nicholson is entirely believable, but this movie's smart enough--and charmingly funny enough--to make it seem endearingly possible. --Jeff Shannon

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The best movies in one.......2002-04-29

This set of DVD's is a really good value because the movies are so good and to buy each separately, then it would be [more]... . I think that i would definatly buy this because the wedding planner is hilarious, sleepless in seattle is a cutsy romantic comedy, and the rest are also very funny/good.

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Good movies, but why are they together???
Two great films put together for on great afternoon!
Julia Roberts is laughter, tears and great movies!

My Best Friend's Wedding / Stepmom
Starring: Julia Roberts , Dermot Mulroney , Cameron Diaz , Rupert Everett , and Philip Bosco
Director: P.J. Hogan , and Chris Columbus
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ASIN: B00004U1EX
Release Date: 2000-07-25

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Stepmom
Though Stepmom was dismissed as a contender in the 1998 Oscar race, it's worth giving a second chance to this rather cogent, sharp-tongued look at second chances. Susan Sarandon's performance as a mom about to be replaced by her ex-husband's new girlfriend (played by Julia Roberts) has a lot of bite, and it's a shame the script opted to marginalize and trivialize her plight in its final reel. Initially, the rancor that passes between divorced mom Jackie (Sarandon) and trendy fashion photographer Isabel (Roberts) rings true, aided by the sincerity of Jackie's ex-husband Luke (Ed Harris) and the emotional plight of their children, who have the most to lose in their parents' divorce. As the drama makes clear, the kids are the real victims in the agony that ensues between old and new love. Director Chris Columbus, who is adept at showing familial chaos (he directed Mrs. Doubtfire and Home Alone) with a sanitized minimum of lingering emotional damage, actually manages to dig a trifle deeper than usual in exploring the jealousy and hurt that occur when the baton is passed between a birth mom and the younger wife who steps into her shoes. Stepmom fortunately manages to touch on that chord--showing how an ambitious woman might feel hampered by the responsibility of children just because she's fallen in love with their dad--as well as the haunting grief that it causes their birth mom. It's an issue that haunts millions of second wives everywhere, and while Roberts conveys the confusion of being taken for granted in the melee that follows, it's Sarandon who walks off with the film. She's relentless in her fury, and everyone else in the film--the generally excellent Harris included--is sideswiped. It's just a shame that Hollywood once again wimps out in the end, solving the problem by giving Sarandon a terminal illness. Instead of allowing Jackie and Isabel's relationship to unfold on something less than a high note, the movie has to quell its best thing with a false payoff because it doesn't know what to do with real life. --Paula Nechak

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Good movies, but why are they together???.......2000-10-04

Excellent movies, but each with a different slant. Best Friend is a funny and cute movie. Suitable for viewing time and again over the years. Stepmom is a more serious and sad movie that you probably won't want to see more than once. Why did they package them together?

Two great films put together for on great afternoon!.......2000-08-24

This two films are different in their context, but bond together perfectly to make a great collection. Stepmom is a great, tear shedding film that will open the viewer's heart. My Best Friend's Wedding is full of laughter and gives us a great Julia Roberts and a gorgeaus Cameron Diaz

Julia Roberts is laughter, tears and great movies!.......2000-06-21

Julia Roberts gives out the best of her acting in both of this movies. On "My best friend's wedding", her overwhelming acting goes far beyond Cameron Diaz's innoncent looking, uptown girl beauty. She is ambitious, hilarious and beautiful.

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Steel Magnolias
Based on Robert Harling's play, this comedy-drama directed by Herbert Ross (The Turning Point) follows several years in the lives of women who regularly see one another at a beauty shop in their small Louisiana town. The story deepens as Julia Roberts, playing a serious diabetic and the daughter of Sally Field, goes downhill in her health. But as an ensemble piece, this is one of those enjoyably lumpy tearjerkers with many years' worth of stored truths suddenly being shared between the characters, lots of grievances aired, that sort of thing. Daryl Hannah and Shirley MacLaine assume the most eccentric roles, Dolly Parton the most fun, and Olympia Dukakis the most dignified, while Sally Field essentially provides the moral and emotional center of the movie. --Tom Keogh

Customer Reviews:

These are heart- warming movies that you will love!.......2003-08-14

The only reason I didn't give these movies 5 stars is because of some of the excessive foul language. But, if you don't have kids or if you ever have time to curl up with a good movie alone, these two are great! Roberts' characters are so down to earth/realistic in these films. They are both hilarious movies and you may shed a tear or two if you're a "softy" like me!

Two fabulous movies.......2000-06-15

Both of these films are excellent beyond measure! "My Best Friends Wedding" is a hilarious romantic comedy about Julia Robert's male best friend getting engaged, and Julia suddenly realizing that she's in love with him. "Steel Magnolias" in a moving dramatic comedy that will truly keep your attention. Both of these films are EXCELLENT and a definate bargain as a set!

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Bewitched/My Best Friend's Wedding
Starring: Nicole Kidman , Will Ferrell , Shirley MacLaine , Michael Caine , and Jason Schwartzman
Director: Nora Ephron , and P.J. Hogan
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Release Date: 2006-01-02

The Wedding Planner (Special Edition) / My Best Friend's Wedding (Movie-Only Edition)

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The Wedding Planner (Special Edition) / My Best Friend's Wedding (Movie-Only Edition)
Starring: Julia Roberts , Dermot Mulroney , Cameron Diaz , Rupert Everett , and Philip Bosco
Director: P.J. Hogan , and Adam Shankman
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Release Date: 2001-07-03

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