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Release Date:
5 November 1999 (USA)
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Tagline:
One thousand brides. One hundred million dollars. Jimmie Shannon is about to discover the true value of love.
Plot:
A committment-phobic man goes in search of a bride including his fed up girlfriend, to inherit his grandfather's $100 million inheritance. full summary | add synopsis
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Chris O'Donnell | ... | Jimmie Shannon |
 | Renée Zellweger | ... | Anne Arden |
 | Artie Lange | ... | Marco |
 | Edward Asner | ... | Sid Gluckman |
 | Hal Holbrook | ... | Roy O'Dell |
 | James Cromwell | ... | The Priest |
 | Marley Shelton | ... | Natalie Arden |
 | Peter Ustinov | ... | Grandad James Shannon |
 | Katharine Towne | ... | Monique |
 | Rebekah Carlton | ... | Stacey (as Rebecca Cross) |
| Stacy Edwards | ... | Zoe |
 | Mariah Carey | ... | Ilana |
 | Sarah Silverman | ... | Carolyn |
 | Jennifer Esposito | ... | Daphne |
 | Brooke Shields | ... | Buckley Hale-Windsor |
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Rated PG-13 for language.
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101 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Australia:M (original rating) |
Australia:PG (TV rating) |
Canada:14A (Alberta) |
Canada:G (Quebec) |
Canada:PG (British Columbia/Manitoba/Nova Scotia/Ontario) |
Malaysia:U |
South Korea:12 |
Argentina:Atp |
Chile:TE |
France:U |
Germany:6 |
Hong Kong:IIA |
Iceland:L |
Netherlands:AL |
New Zealand:M |
Peru:PT |
Portugal:M/12 |
Singapore:PG |
Switzerland:7 (canton of Geneva) |
Switzerland:7 (canton of Vaud) |
UK:12 |
USA:PG-13 (certificate #36793) |
Philippines:PG-13 |
Finland:S
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The character "Sanzel" is a reference to the writer Ken Sanzel, a childhood friend of Steve Cohen, who wrote the screenplay for this movie.
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Plot holes: Video-taped wills are not recognized as valid in California.
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Grandad Shannon:
As my last surviving descendant, you have a sacred duty to pass on my genetic material.
Jimmie: That's a lovely sentiment.
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Jimmie: That's a lovely sentiment.
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Soundtrack:
It Must Be Love
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The sight of an army of brides in white chasing a man down the streets is a very unusual and funny one. It was especially funny the first time around, with Buster Keaton. In "Seven Chances" (1925) old stone face played a man who had been left an inheritance of a large sum of money ($7 million)under the condition that he get married before his next birthday...which happens to be the following day. His efforts to find a willing bride results in ridicule, a car wreck, etc. He finally puts an ad in the paper, telling the circumstances, and asking for the applying bride to meet him at the church. At least a thousand women ranging from fat, small, young, old, beautiful, downright misshapen arrive at the church. Well, the same exact thing happens in this movie "The Bachelor" (though inflation has turned $7 Million into $100 million), only I gotta say the Keaton version is still the original and unsurpassed (and unsurpassable) masterpiece. I actually couldn't believe they named it "The Bachelor", it's a very boring title.