or
Sign in to turn on 1-Click ordering.
More Buying Choices
Jasuli Add to Cart
£13.25
Have one to sell? Sell yours here
Sorry, this item is not available in
Image not available for
Colour:
Image not available

 

Muriel's Wedding [DVD] [1995]

Toni Collette , Rachel Griffiths , P.J. Hogan    Suitable for 15 years and over   DVD
4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (54 customer reviews)
Price: £12.99 & this item Delivered FREE in the UK with Super Saver Delivery. See details and conditions
o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o
Only 3 left in stock.
Sold by WorldCinema and Fulfilled by Amazon. Gift-wrap available.
Want it Thursday, 20 June? Choose Express delivery at checkout. Details
Learn about LOVEFiLM
Amazon’s film and TV subscription service with unlimited access to thousands of titles to watch instantly, many in HD at no extra cost. Go to LOVEFiLM for title availability. Enjoy a 30-day free trial and watch across many devices including the Kindle Fire. Learn more at LOVEFiLM.com

Frequently Bought Together

Muriel's Wedding [DVD] [1995] + Strictly Ballroom [DVD] [1992] + The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994) [DVD]
Price For All Three: £24.40

Buy the selected items together

What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?


Product details

  • Actors: Toni Collette, Rachel Griffiths, Bill Hunter, Sophie Lee, Roz Hammond
  • Directors: P.J. Hogan
  • Writers: P.J. Hogan
  • Producers: Jocelyn Moorhouse, Lynda House, Michael D. Aglion, Tony Mahood
  • Format: PAL
  • Language: English
  • Subtitles: English, Swedish, Finnish, Danish
  • Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired: English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 4:3 - 1.33:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: Walt Disney Studios Home Ent.
  • DVD Release Date: 12 Feb 2001
  • Run Time: 101 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (54 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00004CXPV
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 6,032 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)

Reviews

From Amazon.co.uk

Ever since the late 1970s when the Australian New Wave was in full surge, Down Under directors have delivered movies that often hit you like news from another planet. Offbeat characters, weird narrative twists and a tart mixture of laughs and catastrophe--this is the juice that fuels such flicks as Proof, The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, Strictly Ballroom, Heavenly Creatures and, most certainly, Muriel's Wedding. Directed by PJ Hogan (who would go on to helm the Hollywood hit My Best Friend's Wedding), this little gem follows tradition by featuring an authentic misfit: Muriel (Toni Collette), a great, overweight horse of a girl obsessed with getting married and the music of ABBA. Appropriately, we first meet Muriel at a wedding, all trussed up in a leopardskin number she's boosted for the occasion. When her snotty peers insist that she give up the bridal bouquet to someone who might actually get hitched, when one of the guests turns out to be a clerk in the very store where Muriel ripped off her outfit, you've just got to laugh, she's such an unmitigated mess. A loser, her philandering politician father (Bill Hunter) calls her--along with his doormat wife and his other couch-potato offspring. But this movie's no exercise in geek-bashing. As Muriel takes up with feisty Rhonda (Rachel Griffiths) and moves from Porpoise Spit to the big city, her good-hearted grin and zest for life draw us in despite hilarious gaffes and mishaps. (Making out with a boy for the first time, Muriel suddenly finds herself awash in styrofoam: the oaf has unzipped the beanbag chair instead of her skin-tight leather pants.) Muriel's Wedding covers territory Hollywood would banish from a comedy--Rhonda's cancer, the suicide of Muriel's mother, a marriage of convenience to an arrogant athlete--yet, like its heroine, it never loses its sense of humour, its will to move on to whatever good thing might happen next. Everyone in the idiosyncratic cast is terrific, but it's Toni Collette's Dancing Queen who makes Muriel's Wedding a cinematic celebration you won't forget. --Kathleen Murphy

Product Description

Young Muriel (Toni Collette) feels unloved and unappreciated in her suburban home, and sets out for Sydney, where she hopes to fulfill her dream of a traditional white wedding. Armed only with her Abba dance routines and an eagerness to please, she stumbles into an arranged marriage with a hunky South African swimmer. However, her dreams of marriage are soon tested by her best friend Rhonda (Rachel Griffiths) falling seriously ill.


Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews
30 of 31 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars A Movie in Need of Rehabilitation! 27 May 2004
Format:DVD
As others have mentioned, this film was really done an incredible disservice by the studio's marketing department. It was made to look like a fun, fluffy comedy strictly for girls, but it's so much more than that. I would genuinely place it among the top ten films that have affected me most in my life (alongside such heavyweights as A Streetcar Named Desire and Schindler's List), because it is one of those films that seem to transcend the medium and shoot you directly in the heart, leaving you feeling you've learned something invaluable about the human condition.
At the centre of the film is an astounding performance by Toni Collette - one that stands with the greatest character studies in cinema history (I know I'm using lots of hyperbole, but this film really justifies it!). She has you howling with laughter one moment and then makes your heart ache the next. As if this isn't enough, the supporting cast is also uniformly amazing. Rachel Griffiths is awesome in a very early role (pre-Six Feet Under of course...), and the actors and actresses playing Muriel's family are all brilliant in their own individual ways - especially her father and mother.
This is a film that WILL make you laugh hysterically at times (and will have you quoting the lines for the rest of your life), but it will also make you cry. And after it has finished, you will feel that your life has been immeasurably enriched.
Watch it. Please.
Was this review helpful to you?
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Muriel's Triumph 25 Mar 2007
By Four Violets VINE™ VOICE
Format:DVD
I wish I had never seen this film - so that I could see it now for the first tme!

Every actress has a defining role and this is Toni Collette's. In fact casting for the entire film is spot-on.

We meet Muriel/Mariel, the ugly duckling who thinks a wedding (to anyone) will transform her into a swan; her dysunctional family, and barbie-doll "friends". Its hilarious from start to finish though a few scenes are my particular favourite. Who could forget her incredulous husband-to-be's face as she grins triumphantly down the aisle towards him; the Abba dance competetion of course; and the final trouncing of the Barbies ("but I'm beautiful!" squeals one).

With her gutsy friend and downtrdden, tragic mother, Muriel has us rooting for her all along so that finally we notice her warmth and lovely eyes and realise that against all odds she really has turned into a swan.
Comment | 
Was this review helpful to you?
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
By Clinty
Format:DVD
This is one of my all time favourite movies : it has the ability to make one realise the power one has to shape ones own future. (And the destructive power of letting others have the deciding factor).

Muriel is fat and ugly. She has no job or real friends. She is classed as a 'useless lump' by her politician father and is unsupported by her mother and siblings.

Life is not much fun for Muriel Hislop in the tiny back water town of Porpoise Spit. The only enjoyment for her is listening to Abba songs and dreaming of getting married. Until, one day, her unhappiness forces her to steal from her parents in order to finance an exotic holiday - where she meets an old rebelious classmate who helps Muriel see she has the ability to be someone other than she is......and to engineer the chance of becoming a perfect bride.

This film has a serious side, but on the whole it is delivered with such humour and panache that you more than just empathise with Muriel - you route for her ! Toni Collete is amazing, playing the frumpy girl who matures into a more elegant woman - this is more than just an 'ugly duckling' story. It has great characters with some funny catchphrases ("Deidre Chambers - what a co-incidence !" & " You're Terrible Muriel!" being my 2 favourites ). The story could play it safe by sticking to comedy, but the fact it takes a chance to delve a little deeper than the usual cliches, wins my admiration completely.

This Australian classic is just wonderful. Touching and funny. I think we can all relate to the story being told here and the performances are top notch.
Comment | 
Was this review helpful to you?
16 of 17 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars Terrible quality DVD 12 July 2002
By Bettina
Format:DVD
Great film (5 stars!) but shocking quality DVD. Awful picture quality and pan and scan - not even a widescreen version. Save your money or buy one from another region if you can.
Comment | 
Was this review helpful to you?
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars What a great film! 9 May 2004
By Mr. G. White TOP 1000 REVIEWER VINE™ VOICE
Format:DVD
This is a very funny, touching, bitter-sweet movie. Start watching it and you'll be transfixed: the 100 minutes flies by. Though it's billed as a comedy, there's more to it than mere laughs. It's difficult not to relate to the smalltown girl who wants to get away fom the small-minded family and Toni Collete's peformance as Muriel is first class. It probably cost just a few dollars to make and it just goes to show that a big budget is not needed to make a really outstanding movie. One of the best films of the last ten years.
Comment | 
Was this review helpful to you?
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars You're NOT terrible Muriel! 17 Feb 2003
By A Customer
Format:DVD
Ok, so I may be biased, seeing as I'm a huge ABBA fan (in the 90s..) obsessed with marriage, and possibly the overweight horse in fact described above, but this film is absolutely top notch!! 5 stars every time, I leave it a while between each viewing, and each time it gets me in the right bits, tears for Muriel, for Rhonda, happiness when she achieves what she wants... Absolutely superb, Toni Collette is brilliant in this film, it's heartwrenching when she breaks down in tears "I'm NOT nothing".

Aside from the fact that I AM Muriel, this film really is worth seeing, and if you are an ABBA fan then you get the added bonus of a fabulous rendition of Waterloo!!

Take the plunge if this is outside of your usual genre because it is an excellent film about the rise of a nothing from a hopeless town, happy ending, but not without a bazillion twists and turns. Wow, it's just amazing!!

(I have the video and not the DVD)

Comment | 
Was this review helpful to you?
Would you like to see more reviews about this item?
Were these reviews helpful?   Let us know
Most Recent Customer Reviews
3.0 out of 5 stars Weird humour
This dvd was rec to me but i couldn't share all of the humour as it was quite disturbing in some scenes...if you've just lost a friend or relative then don't watch it... Read more
Published 7 days ago by .
5.0 out of 5 stars Funny film
Fantastic DVD to watch very funny . If u haven't seen it go on go and get it and cheer yourself up
Published 24 days ago by Marty
5.0 out of 5 stars Love it!
I absolutely love Australian comedies and this is no disappointed. Very funny chick flick that I would recommend to anyone!
Published 1 month ago by TamzUK
3.0 out of 5 stars Muriel's Wedding
Good to watch and had lots of ideas on different wedding styles. would recommend to anyone planning an eighties wedding theme and music to go along.
Published 1 month ago by Judith
5.0 out of 5 stars Muriel's Wedding
This is my most favourite film of all time. If you like Abba songs then this film is for you. I have probably watched it 25 times and am always telling my friends that haven't seen... Read more
Published 2 months ago by Helen A. Pooley
4.0 out of 5 stars Enjoyable
The movie is an Australian film that is fun to watch. The music is ABBA the acting very good and story story line interesting.
Published 2 months ago by Carol
4.0 out of 5 stars Teaching about Australia
No better film to introduce poms to the blunt reality of Australian sophistication. Found myself hankering after the old days before mobile phones. Takes me back ...
Published 4 months ago by Big Fish
5.0 out of 5 stars Thanks
Great film, Was dispatched very quickly, really enjoyed watching it would reccomend to others thankyou . . . . .
Published 4 months ago by yvonne
5.0 out of 5 stars great!
I really absolutely loved this film from beginning to end. Muriel's great! A true star through & through she rules!
Published 4 months ago by Ms. W. A. Clow
5.0 out of 5 stars Muriel's wedding
Classic film. Very funny - some brilliant one liners "you're terrible Muriel!" along with Abba soundtrack. One for the family.
Published 4 months ago by Dave Jones
Search Customer Reviews
Only search this product's reviews

Customer Discussions

This product's forum
Discussion Replies Latest Post
No discussions yet

Ask questions, Share opinions, Gain insight
Start a new discussion
Topic:
First post:
Prompts for sign-in
 


Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
Search all Amazon discussions
   
Related forums


Listmania!


Look for similar items by category


Feedback


WorldCinema Privacy Statement WorldCinema Delivery Information WorldCinema Returns & Exchanges