Bridesmaids (2011 film) explained

Director:Paul Feig
Cinematography:Robert Yeoman
Music:Michael Andrews
Distributor:Universal Pictures
Runtime:125 minutes[1]
Country:United States
Language:English
Budget:$32.5 million[2]
Gross:$306.4 million[3]

Bridesmaids is a 2011 American comedy film directed by Paul Feig from a screenplay by Annie Mumolo and Kristen Wiig, and produced by Judd Apatow, Barry Mendel and Clayton Townsend. It stars Wiig, Maya Rudolph, Rose Byrne, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Ellie Kemper, Melissa McCarthy, and Chris O'Dowd.[4] The film focuses on a woman who experiences a series of misfortunes after being asked to serve as maid of honor for her best friend.

Actresses Mumolo and Wiig wrote the screenplay after the latter was cast in Apatow's comedy Knocked Up (2007), and budgeted at $32.5 million. Upon its opening release in the United States on May 13, 2011, Bridesmaids was a critical and commercial success. The film made $26 million in its opening weekend, eventually earning over $306 million worldwide, and surpassed Knocked Up to become the top-grossing Apatow production to date,[5] and served as a touchstone for discussion about women in comedy.[6] [7] It has since been cited as among the best comedy films of the 21st century.[8] [9] [10]

Bridesmaids was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy. It received multiple other accolades. In 2012, the film was nominated for both the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for McCarthy and Best Original Screenplay for Wiig and Mumolo. This made Bridesmaids the first Apatow-produced film to be nominated for an Academy Award.

Plot

Annie Walker feels like a failure. Her bakery failed due to the recession, wiping out her savings and causing her boyfriend to leave her. Having lost her passion for baking, Annie works a stressful, underpaid job at a jewelry store and shares an apartment with obnoxious British immigrant siblings Gil and Brynn. She has an unfulfilling, casual sexual relationship with the wealthy and self-absorbed Ted, who treats her like an object. The only positive presence in Annie's life is her lifelong best friend, Lillian.

When Lillian becomes engaged to Doug, she asks Annie to be her maid of honor. At the engagement party, she meets Lillian's bridesmaids: Rita, Lillian's long-married and cynical cousin; Becca, Lillian's naïve newlywed coworker; Megan, Doug's raunchy and foul-mouthed but friendly sister; and Helen, the wealthy and snobby trophy wife of Doug's boss. Annie and Helen are instantly jealous of each other's friendship with Lillian and become increasingly competitive for her attention.

Annie's suggestion for a bachelorette party at Lillian's parents' lake house is overruled in favor of a Las Vegas trip planned by Helen. Unable to afford a first-class ticket and too proud to allow Helen to pay, Annie books a ticket in economy class.

Annie accepts a sedative and liquor from Helen to calm her massive fear of flying and begins to hallucinate, suffering a paranoid breakdown that culminates in her being apprehended by a U.S. Air Marshal. The plane makes an emergency landing, and the party takes a bus back home. Annie apologizes, but Lillian decides it's best if Helen takes over planning the bridal shower and wedding.

Meanwhile, Annie grows closer to Nathan Rhodes, an Irish-American Wisconsin State Patrol Trooper who lets her off without a ticket for broken brake lights. A former regular customer at Annie's bakery, he repeatedly encourages her to open a new one, though she is resistant to the idea. After a romantic night together, she panics and abruptly leaves when Nathan surprises her with baking supplies.

Annie is fired from the jewelry store after a profane argument with a teenage customer, and is later evicted by her roommates, forcing her to move in with her mother. She travels to Helen's home in Chicago for the extravagant bridal shower, which is Parisian-themed - an idea of Annie's that Helen had previously rejected.

When Helen upstages Annie's heartfelt gift by surprising Lillian with a trip to Paris, Annie flies into a rage, berating Helen and Lilian in front of everyone and destroying the decor. She then storms out of the shower and Lillian disinvites her from the wedding.

As Annie is driving home, her still-broken taillights result in a car accident, from which the other driver flees. Nathan is the responding officer, and he admonishes her for blowing him off, not fixing her taillights, and not taking responsibility for her life. Ted arrives shortly after to give Annie a ride, causing Nathan to storm off in disgust. However, when he asks her to perform oral sex on him as he drives, she demands to be let out of the car and walks home, leaving him for good.

Megan visits the recently reclusive Annie, which motivates her to take control of her life. She resumes baking, gets her car fixed, and tries to make amends with Nathan, who ignores her. On the day of the wedding, Helen appears at Annie's begging for help finding Lillian, who has disappeared.

Helen apologizes to Annie, tearfully revealing that while sought after for her event planning skills, she does not have any true friends and feels lonely in her marriage. With some begrudging help from Nathan, they find Lillian hiding out in her own apartment, having become overwhelmed by Helen's extravagant wedding planning and afraid of leaving her life in Milwaukee. Annie reconciles with Lillian and resumes her role as maid of honor.

After the wedding, Annie and Helen finally become friends. She also reconciles with Nathan, who arrives unexpectedly to pick her up after the wedding (possibly arranged by Helen). Annie and Nathan kiss, then ride away in his police car.

Cast

The cast features brief appearances by several actors from the television series The Office, including Jessica St. Clair, Nancy Carell, Hugh Dane and Andy Buckley.[11]

Major uncredited appearances include: Jon Hamm as Ted, Annie's sex buddy;[12] Grammy Award-winning accordionist, pianist, and composer Nick Ariondo as the accordion player;[13] and Emmy, Drama Desk and Grammy Award winner Pat Carroll as the old woman in the car.[14]

The film's co-writers, Wiig and Annie Mumolo, appear together when Mumolo plays the credited role of Nervous Woman on Plane,[15] while the film's director, Paul Feig, appears uncredited as one of the wedding guests.

Paul Rudd was to appear as a man who Annie goes on a blind date with, but the scene was cut from the final film.[16]

Mia Rose Frampton appears briefly as a thirteen-year-old girl who argues with Annie in the jewelry store; the film's Blu-ray release includes an extended, ten minute scene of improvised dialogue between the two. [17]

Production

Writing

The script, originally titled Maid of Honor, was written by actress and screenwriter Annie Mumolo and Kristen Wiig. Friends for years, they met at The Groundlings, a Los Angeles-based improvisational comedy troupe where they wrote sketches with one another, in the early 2000s.[18] The basic premise for the film originated in 2006, shortly after Wiig was cast in the supporting role of a passive-aggressive cable television executive in producer Judd Apatow's comedy film Knocked Up (2007).[18] Recognizing her comedic talent, Apatow asked Wiig if she had any ideas for a screenplay herself – a practice which had previously led to Steve Carell's idea for The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005) – and she and Mumolo soon came up with Bridesmaids.[18] Over the following years, writing commenced, with Wiig working on Saturday Night Live in New York City and Mumolo grinding out the script in Los Angeles.[19] The two would meet on weekends and conduct semi-regular table reads of drafts for Apatow to get his suggestions and notes.[18] Filmmaker Paul Feig came across Wiig and Mumolo's script in 2007.[20] When Feig signed on as director and the script got the greenlight for production in 2010, Feig said, "There was an edict from Hollywood where they were all going, 'Okay this is a movie starring a bunch of women. If this works, we'll greenlight more, and if it doesn't, we won't...I was really sweating because if this didn't work then I'm basically the man who killed movies for women for eternity. So, thank God it worked."

Casting and filming

Several actresses auditioned for the role of Megan, including Rebel Wilson and Busy Philipps, the latter of whom had worked with Apatow and Feig on their comedy-drama television series Freaks and Geeks.[21] Wilson, who improvised for Apatow and Feig for an hour during her audition, impressed them so much that she was later cast in the smaller role of Brynn. It marked her first appearance in an American production,[22] and she allegedly received $3,500, all of which went toward paying fees to join the Screen Actors Guild.[23] Mindy Kaling read for the role of Lillian, eventually losing to Wiig's Saturday Night Live colleague Maya Rudolph.[24] Rose Byrne initially also auditioned for Lillian, but later took the opportunity to read Helen.[25] Byrne was eventually chosen as the nemesis because she wasn't a comedian as Feig feared the character would be "coming out to be too arch if we had a funny woman doing it."[26] Greta Gerwig and Judy Greer also auditioned for unspecific roles.[27] [28]

Bridesmaids was budgeted at $32.5 million.[29] Though primarily set in Milwaukee and Chicago, principal photography actually took place in Los Angeles, California.[30] Production designer Jefferson Sage, who has worked with Apatow and Paul Feig since their Freaks and Geeks days, noted that the first fact that appealed to him about the project "was that you had these two disparate worlds: There was Annie's world in Milwaukee, and then there was Helen's world in Chicago. It immediately drew this dichotomy between the rivalry that developed between them."[30] However, Sage acknowledged that it was a challenge to find "architecture that would give us those Midwestern worlds. Chicago is a beautiful, distinctive city architecturally, and restricted views of downtown L.A. feel like Chicago."[30] The production decided to use the Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden as the location for Lillian and Dougie's wedding.[30] Additional scenes where Annie meets Officer Rhodes on the highways between Milwaukee and Chicago were filmed in Oxnard, California, which Sage described as a "broad, flat, green area away from mountains."[30]

Reception

Critical response

Bridesmaids received positive reviews upon its release, with praise towards Wiig and Mumolo's screenplay and McCarthy's performance. The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reports that 90% of critics gave the film a positive review based on 294 reviews, with an average score of 7.50/10. The site's critical consensus states: "A marriage of genuine characters, gross out gags, and pathos, Bridesmaids is a female-driven comedy that refuses to be boxed in as Kristen Wiig emerges as a real star."[31] Metacritic gives the film a score of 75 out of 100 based on reviews from 39 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[32] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B+" on an A+ to F scale.[33]

Roger Ebert gave the film 3.5 stars of out 4, and said that Bridesmaids "seems to be a more or less deliberate attempt to cross the Chick Flick with the Raunch Comedy. It definitely proves that women are the equal of men in vulgarity, sexual frankness, lust, vulnerability, overdrinking and insecurity ... Love him or not, Judd Apatow is consistently involved with movies that connect with audiences."[34]

Tamara Winfrey-Harris noted in Ms. that, to her "enduring surprise", despite the involvement of Apatow, and themes that had been "done and done and done", the film passed the Bechdel test of female-driven storylines.[35]

Critic Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly pointed out the significance of Bridesmaids success as follows: "So far, the message that Hollywood seems to have taken from the incredible success of Bridesmaids is a predictably reductive one, something along the lines of: Hey, look! Raunchy comedies for women with awesome grossout scenes in the middle of them can be big box office too!! The message that Hollywood should be taking is: A comedy that's raunchy and fearless, and also brilliantly written and shrewdly honest about what's really going on in women's lives, may actually connect with the fabled non-teenage audience (remember them?)."[36]

Many critics, like Mary Elizabeth Williams of Salon (who called Bridesmaids the "first black president of female-driven comedies"[37]) labeled the film as "a breakthrough for female-centered comedy, and feminist to boot."[38] It was also credited with proving that "women could pull off a good fart joke as well as the next guy, and did what seemed like the impossible: leading an all-female cast to blockbuster success."[39]

Despite the majority of praise, the film was not without its detractors. Abby Koenig of The Houston Press enjoyed Kristen Wiig's comedic talents, but disliked the frequency of "raunchy jokes" throughout the film, writing that "we need more funny females getting the spotlight. However, we also need women that can crack you up without making you watch them have diarrhea".[40] Karina Longworth of The Village Voice criticised the inconsistency of the film's tone, stating that certain scenes have "a kind of dumb crassness that works against Bridesmaids often smart, highly class-conscious deconstruction of female friendship and competition. Comedy of humiliation is one thing; a fat lady shitting in a sink is another."[41]

Box office

Bridesmaids surpassed Knocked Up to become the top-grossing Judd Apatow production to date,[42] [43] grossing $26,247,410 on its opening weekend and settling for a strong second place behind Thor.[44] Bridesmaids grossed $169,106,725 at the North American domestic box office and $137,335,360 in international markets, totalling $306,442,085. Universal reported that males made up 33 percent of the movie's audience and that 63 percent of the audience was over the age of 30.[45]

Accolades

McCarthy was nominated for the 2011 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, and Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role.[46] [47] [48]

List of awards and nominations! Award !! Category !! Recipients !! Result
Academy AwardsBest Supporting ActressMelissa McCarthy
Best Original ScreenplayKristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo
American Film Institute[49] Movies of the YearBridesmaids
Art Directors Guild Award[50] Excellence in Production Design for a Contemporary FilmJefferson Sage
Boston Society of Film Critics[51] Best Supporting ActressMelissa McCarthy
British Academy Film AwardsBest Actress in a Supporting RoleMelissa McCarthy
Best Original ScreenplayKristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo
Black Reel Awards[52] Best Supporting ActressMaya Rudolph
BMI Film & TV Awards[53] Film Music AwardMichael Andrews
Chicago Film Critics AssociationBest Supporting ActressMelissa McCarthy
Costume Designers GuildExcellence in Contemporary FilmLeesa Evans, Christine Wada
Critics' Choice Awards[54] Best Acting EnsembleBridesmaids
Best ComedyBridesmaids
Best Supporting ActressMelissa McCarthy
Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association[55] Best Supporting ActressMelissa McCarthy
Detroit Film Critics Society[56] Breakthrough PerformanceMelissa McCarthy
Golden Globe Awards[57] Best Motion Picture – Musical or ComedyBridesmaids
Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or ComedyKristen Wiig
Houston Film Critics Society[58] Best Supporting ActressMelissa McCarthy
New York Film Critics Online[59] Best Ensemble CastBridesmaids
Best Supporting ActressMelissa McCarthy
MTV Movie Awards[60] Movie of the YearBridesmaids
Best Female PerformanceKristen Wiig
Best Comedic PerformanceKristen Wiig
Best Comedic PerformanceMelissa McCarthy
Best Breakthrough PerformanceMelissa McCarthy
Best CastBridesmaids
Best Gut-Wrenching PerformanceKristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph, Rose Byrne, Melissa McCarthy, Wendi McLendon-Covey and Ellie Kemper
Best On-Screen Dirt BagJon Hamm
NewNowNext Awards[61] Next Must-See MovieBridesmaids
Online Film Critics Society[62] Best Supporting ActressMelissa McCarthy
People's Choice Awards[63] Favorite Comedy MovieBridesmaids
Favorite Ensemble Movie CastBridesmaids
Producers Guild of America[64] Best Theatrical Motion PictureJudd Apatow, Barry Mendel, Clayton Townsend
Screen Actors Guild Award[65] Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion PictureBridesmaids
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting RoleMelissa McCarthy
St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association[66] Best ComedyBridesmaids
Teen Choice Awards[67] Choice Movie – ComedyBridesmaids
Choice Movie Actress – ComedyKristen Wiig
Choice Movie Actress – ComedyMaya Rudolph
Choice Movie Hissy FitKristen Wiig
Choice Movie Scene Stealer – FemaleMelissa McCarthy
Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association[68] Best Supporting ActressMelissa McCarthy
Best Original ScreenplayKristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo
Best EnsembleBridesmaids
Writers Guild of America Award[69] Best Original ScreenplayKristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo

Home media

Bridesmaids was released on DVD and Blu-ray Disc in theatrical (125 minutes) and unrated (130 minutes) versions on September 20, 2011.[70] Special features include a Line-O-Rama (a feature popular among Apatow releases), deleted, extended, and alternate scenes, and a Cholodecki's jewelry store commercial. Another edition commemorating the 100th anniversary of Universal Studios was released on September 4, 2012.

Previously proposed sequel

In January 2012, industry sources reported that Universal was interested in developing a sequel to Bridesmaids. When discussing the potential of a Bridesmaids 2, producer Apatow was quoted as saying, "The key is we have to come up with an idea that is as good or better than the first one."[71] In an interview with Vanity Fair, director Paul Feig addressed rumors of a sequel, saying "Everyone's very busy right now is one of the problems, and kind of doing their own thing, but we're very open to it."[72]

When asked about her potential involvement, Wiig told The Hollywood Reporter, "We aren't working on that. Annie [Mumolo] and I aren't planning a sequel. We are writing something else." Following Wiig's statement, reports surfaced that Universal was interested in proceeding without her, instead focusing on developing a story about McCarthy's character Megan. McCarthy dispelled the rumors that she would consider returning for a sequel without Wiig saying, "God, I wouldn't want to. I would never want to. I think it's a terrible idea. I don't know anything about it. But I know that nobody wants to do it unless it's great. If it is, I will show up wherever those ladies are."[73]

External links

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