Film Critique
My Best Friend’s Wedding
Courtney-Anthony-Br
English 225 Introduction to Film
Instructor: Hazar Shehadeh
May 9, 2013
“My Best Friend’s Wedding” is a romantic comedy that hit the movie scene in 1997 about a 27 year old woman who made a pact with her best friend and former lover that by age 28 if neither was married that they would marry each other. Four days before her 28th birthday her best friend calls with news of him getting married. Now she has to decipher whether she wants to be just best friends or lovers as well. One of the reasons this movie did so well in my opinion is because it pulled on the heart strings of the audience’s emotions. Through critically analyzing this movie I will show this movie sends a strong message that to truly love someone you have to want the best for them even if that means letting them go. The cast of this film includes Julia Roberts, who plays the main character Julianne Potter, her best friend and former lover Michael O’Neil, played by Dermot Mulroney, her gay best friend George, played by Rupert Everett, and her rivalry and best friend’s fiancé, Kimberly Wallace, played by Cameron Diaz. Julia Roberts is a star actor; she tends to have a distinctive screen persona that is well known and popular with the public (GoodKoontz & Jacobs, 2011). Julia Roberts have done other movies such as “Step Mom” and “Pretty Woman” where she plays the same characters of women who just want to be accepted, loved, and live happily ever after. Cameron Diaz would be known as a wildcard actor because she has played so many roles that it is difficult to classify her as one certain type of actor (GoodKoontz & Jacobs, 2011). Movies such as “The Other Woman”, “Bad Teacher”, and “Charlie’s Angels” are all different in character allowing her to show case her versatility when it comes to acting. In “My Best Friend’s Wedding” Realism is the type of acting that is present because the acting appears to the view’s to be realistic rather than
Courtney-Anthony-Br
English 225 Introduction to Film
Instructor: Hazar Shehadeh
May 9, 2013
“My Best Friend’s Wedding” is a romantic comedy that hit the movie scene in 1997 about a 27 year old woman who made a pact with her best friend and former lover that by age 28 if neither was married that they would marry each other. Four days before her 28th birthday her best friend calls with news of him getting married. Now she has to decipher whether she wants to be just best friends or lovers as well. One of the reasons this movie did so well in my opinion is because it pulled on the heart strings of the audience’s emotions. Through critically analyzing this movie I will show this movie sends a strong message that to truly love someone you have to want the best for them even if that means letting them go. The cast of this film includes Julia Roberts, who plays the main character Julianne Potter, her best friend and former lover Michael O’Neil, played by Dermot Mulroney, her gay best friend George, played by Rupert Everett, and her rivalry and best friend’s fiancé, Kimberly Wallace, played by Cameron Diaz. Julia Roberts is a star actor; she tends to have a distinctive screen persona that is well known and popular with the public (GoodKoontz & Jacobs, 2011). Julia Roberts have done other movies such as “Step Mom” and “Pretty Woman” where she plays the same characters of women who just want to be accepted, loved, and live happily ever after. Cameron Diaz would be known as a wildcard actor because she has played so many roles that it is difficult to classify her as one certain type of actor (GoodKoontz & Jacobs, 2011). Movies such as “The Other Woman”, “Bad Teacher”, and “Charlie’s Angels” are all different in character allowing her to show case her versatility when it comes to acting. In “My Best Friend’s Wedding” Realism is the type of acting that is present because the acting appears to the view’s to be realistic rather than