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The Best Man (1997)
"Il testimone dello sposo" (original title)

 -  Comedy | Drama  -  21 August 1998 (USA)
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Incredibly, the bride at the altar falls in love with the best man on first sight, and even though he makes efforts to avoid her infatuation with him, she is determined to annul her ... See full summary »

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Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 3 nominations. See more awards »

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Diego Abatantuono ...
Angelo Beliossi
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Francesca Babini
Dario Cantarelli ...
Edgardo Osti
Cinzia Mascoli ...
Peppina Campeggi
Valeria D'Obici ...
Olimpia Campeggi Babini
Mario Erpichini ...
Sisto Babini
Ada Maria Serra Zanetti
Ugo Conti ...
Marziano Beliossi
Nini Salerno ...
Sauro Ghinassi
Alessandra Chiti
Carmela Vincenti
Serena Bennato
Marcello Foschini
Barbara Orsani
Umberto Bortolani
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Incredibly, the bride at the altar falls in love with the best man on first sight, and even though he makes efforts to avoid her infatuation with him, she is determined to annul her marriage and marry the best man. And although she is able to dissolve her marriage, because she has never consummated it, the best man leaves... only to return to her many months later. Written by BOB STEBBINS <stebinsbob@aol.com>

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On her wedding day she was very much in love. Unfortunately, not with the groom. See more »

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Rated PG for thematic elements | See all certifications »
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$8,815 (USA) (14 August 1998)

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$89,263 (USA) (11 September 1998)
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Disappointing, slow, bad dialogues

Hopeful that the New Italian Cinema produced another little gem in its 90's renaissance, went to see this motion picture with high expectations. While the costumes and indoor settings were marvelous, the rest was disappointing.

Some of the dialogues made little sense, or were artificially forced on the actor's mouth. The acting didn't see spontaneous, and some of the characters just seemed to make little sense. Another big disappointment was the dubbing of dialogues that clearly didn't follow the actor's lips: listening to mono-tone reading of dialogue text, and watching the lips simply not sinchronized to the listened voice, just makes this movie a turn-off. This movie reminded me of some of the made-for-TV productions of RAI-TV that catered to a domestic forced-fed audience when RAI was the only TV station in the entire country twenty years ago, and the audience had no other choice but to watch the only show in town. In its defense, there were some interesting moments in the plot, like the slide show shown to the italian audience, of pictures of America. But at the end, this movie was like reading a book whose turn-paging incentive is to find out when things were finally happening, only to find out at the end that the climatic moment never happened. Very anti-climatic.


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