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Title: Muriel's Wedding (1994)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
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Sophie Lee | ... | Tania Degano |
| Roz Hammond | ... | Cheryl (as Rosalind Hammond) | |
| Toni Collette | ... | Muriel Heslop | |
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Belinda Jarrett | ... | Janine |
| Pippa Grandison | ... | Nicole | |
| Bill Hunter | ... | Bill Heslop | |
| Jeanie Drynan | ... | Betty Heslop | |
| Dan Wyllie | ... | Perry Heslop (as Daniel Wyllie) | |
| Gabby Millgate | ... | Joanie Heslop | |
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Gennie Nevinson | ... | Deidre Chambers |
| Rachel Griffiths | ... | Rhonda Epinstalk | |
| Matt Day | ... | Brice Nobes | |
| Chris Haywood | ... | Ken Blundell | |
| Daniel Lapaine | ... | David Van Arkle | |
| Susan Prior | ... | Girl at Wedding | |
Muriel finds life in Porpoise Spit, Australia dull and spends her days alone in her room listening to Abba music and dreaming of her wedding day. Slight problem, Muriel has never had a date. Then she steals some money to go on a tropical vacation, meets a wacky friend, changes her name to Mariel, and turns her world upside down. Written by Lynn Salmon
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Muriel's Wedding is a feel good movie for the outcasts of the world. That means most people of course. At some time in our lives we all feel like the one who is left out of everything. Muriel's life is like that. Her "friends" put her down constantly and her father reinforces it by telling her how useless she (and every other member of her family) is while boosting his own ego by bragging about his connections.
There is no life in Porpoise Spit for Muriel. So after a couple of catastrophic embarassments and a chance meeting with an old school chum and fellow outcast she moves to Sydney. There she reinvents herself and discovers that despite what has been said about her and some pretty bad things she has done she is still a good person. Muriel stumbles on the way but finally frees herself (as does her mother) from the oppression of her hometown, her father, and her life.
Muriel isn't a totally likeable character. She steals, lies, and at one point does a perfectly terrible thing to her only friend. In the end however, Muriel recognizes that despite her shortcoming, physical and spiritual, she isn't the worthless creature her classmates and father have told her she is. To the credit of the filmmaker's they didn't do a complete remake of Muriel in the film to make her a beauty at the end. She gets a better hair cut but for the most part the improvement on her looks comes from within.
Muriel's father on the other hand is a completely despicable man. A local politician who tries to impress everybody with his connections he also put considerable effort into the degradation of his wife and children. His motto, the same as the town of Porpoise Spit, is "You Can't Stop Progress" but he manages to stop the progress of everyone in his family except for Muriel.
This is a very enjoyable film and a good example of the idea that a movie doesn't have to be a big Hollywood production to be great. I'm glad that it was produced in Australia. If it had been done in France then Hollywood would have done a remake in English and probably ruined it.