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Muriel's Wedding [DVD] [1995]
 
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Muriel's Wedding [DVD] [1995]

DVD ~ Toni Collette
4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (27 customer reviews)
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  • 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: Full Screen, PAL
  • Language English
  • Subtitles: English, Swedish, Finnish, Danish
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: Touchstone Home Video
  • DVD Release Date: 15 Jun 2006
  • Run Time: 101 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (27 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00004CXPV
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 2,462 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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    #53 in  DVD > Comedy > Romantic
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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


Special Features

Full Screen
English
Region 2
Dolby Digital 5.1 English
Dolby Digital 5.1
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

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24 of 25 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A Movie in Need of Rehabilitation!, 27 May 2004
By brianwilsonisgod (London United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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.
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Muriel's Triumph, 25 Mar 2007
By Four Violets (Hertford UK) - See all my reviews
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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.
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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Terrible quality DVD, 12 Jul 2002
By Bettina (London United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A Modern Classic
Has all the hallmarks of a good old classic story - love, laughter, tears, but it is definitely more than that.

Behind the kitsch (but great! Read more
Published 3 months ago by DEM0210

5.0 out of 5 stars Girly funny film.
This film may be old but it never fails to have girlies and men folk in hysterics.
Just a great comedy.
Published 7 months ago by J. A. Mcgillick

5.0 out of 5 stars A Lovely Story About a Lovely Woman
Muriel's Wedding is a wonderful comedy film starring Toni Collette as the woman of the title, who is obsessed with, you guessed it, getting married. Read more
Published 7 months ago by David Rush

5.0 out of 5 stars muriels wedding good for a giggle
a good sing-a-long whilst you share muriels pain at the hands of her cruel so-called friends from Porpoise Spit(we've all been the last one to be picked for the rounders team/last... Read more
Published 8 months ago by J. A. Jennings

1.0 out of 5 stars The worst film ever made
I cannot believe that this film was actually made and people paid money to see it. This is my alltime worst film and the only reason I haven't reviewed it until now was because I... Read more
Published 12 months ago by Rooby

5.0 out of 5 stars Talk About Getting Your Own Back!
It's only recently that i've seen Muriel's wedding, and i loved it to bits from start to finish. Its basically about a misfit Abba loving geek in her twenties that is going... Read more
Published 20 months ago by R. Birkett

5.0 out of 5 stars The 90's
I don't want to repeat what had already been written, but this quite simply is one of the greatest movies of the 90's. Watch it. Own it.
Published on 10 Nov 2007 by L. P. Steele

5.0 out of 5 stars Muriel Steals Everything, Including Your Heart!
Muriel (Toni Collette) is an overweight, somewhat dense teenager who still loves ABBA and lives with an overweight somewhat dense family in Porpoise Spit, Australia. Read more
Published on 12 May 2007 by Martin A Hogan

5.0 out of 5 stars Shouldnt it have been called 'Mariel's Wedding' ?!
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. Read more
Published on 14 Mar 2007 by Clinty

5.0 out of 5 stars funny and heart-warming - and excellent music!
Muriel is a dowdy twenty-something going nowhere. Her overbearing father is a corrupt local politician, her mother a repressed, listless cipher. Read more
Published on 30 Dec 2006 by Mr. Ian A. Macfarlane

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