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Muriel's Wedding

  • 1994
  • PG
  • 1h 46m
IMDb RATING
7.2/10
41K
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Toni Collette in Muriel's Wedding (1994)
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ComedyDrama

A young social outcast in Australia steals money from her parents to finance a vacation where she hopes to find happiness, and perhaps love.A young social outcast in Australia steals money from her parents to finance a vacation where she hopes to find happiness, and perhaps love.A young social outcast in Australia steals money from her parents to finance a vacation where she hopes to find happiness, and perhaps love.

  • Director
    • P.J. Hogan
  • Writer
    • P.J. Hogan
  • Stars
    • Toni Collette
    • Rachel Griffiths
    • Bill Hunter
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.2/10
    41K
    YOUR RATING
    POPULARITY
    3,760
    201
    • Director
      • P.J. Hogan
    • Writer
      • P.J. Hogan
    • Stars
      • Toni Collette
      • Rachel Griffiths
      • Bill Hunter
    • 202User reviews
    • 50Critic reviews
    • 63Metascore
  • See more at IMDbPro
    • Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award
      • 9 wins & 12 nominations total

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    Top cast

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    Toni Collette
    Toni Collette
    • Muriel
    Rachel Griffiths
    Rachel Griffiths
    • Rhonda
    Bill Hunter
    Bill Hunter
    • Bill
    Sophie Lee
    • Tania
    Roz Hammond
    Roz Hammond
    • Cheryl
    • (as Rosalind Hammond)
    Belinda Jarrett
    • Janine
    Pippa Grandison
    Pippa Grandison
    • Nicole
    Jeanie Drynan
    Jeanie Drynan
    • Betty
    Dan Wyllie
    Dan Wyllie
    • Perry
    • (as Daniel Wyllie)
    Gabby Millgate
    Gabby Millgate
    • Joanie
    Gennie Nevinson
    • Deidre
    Matt Day
    Matt Day
    • Brice
    Chris Haywood
    Chris Haywood
    • Ken Blundell
    Daniel Lapaine
    Daniel Lapaine
    • David Van Arkle
    Susan Prior
    Susan Prior
    • Girl At Wedding
    Nathan Kaye
    • Chook
    Cecily Polson
    • Tania's Mother
    Rob Steele
    Rob Steele
    • Higgins
    • Director
      • P.J. Hogan
    • Writer
      • P.J. Hogan
    • All cast & crew
    • Production, box office & more at IMDbPro

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    Storyline

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    Did you know

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    • Trivia
      Toni Collette gained 18 kgs (40 pounds) in 7 weeks with the help of a dietitian for this role.
    • Goofs
      When Betty Heslop writes the first check to "cash" for Muriel to buy cosmetics, it is dated 12-1-1994. When Muriel hands her father a check for $5,000 near the end of the film, that check is dated 2-11-1992.
    • Quotes

      [repeated line]

      Joanie: You're terrible, Muriel.

    • Alternate versions
      The theatrical release clearly showed a woman dressed as Wonder Woman and a man dressed as Robin during the talent show scene when Muriel and Rhonda are presented with the over-sized check and champagne. In the DVD/video release, Robin is only partly shown and Wonder Woman is not shown at all.
    • Connections
      Edited into Terror Nullius (2018)
    • Soundtracks
      Dancing Queen
      (Benny Andersson (as Andersson) / Björn Ulvaeus (as Ulvaeus) / Stig Anderson (as Anderson)

      Published for the World by Union Songs AB

      Performed by ABBA

      Courtesy of PolyGram Pty Limited

      Dancing Queen bridal arrangement by Peter Best, Vocals Blazey Best

    User reviews202

    Review
    Review
    Featured review
    10/10
    Dancing Queen
    Toni Collette wants to have "Muriel's Wedding" in this 1994 Australian film, directed and written by P.J. Hogan. Muriel is a social outcast living with her dysfunctional family and fantasizing about a better life for herself, as exemplified in Abba music. She wants the excitement the music has, the fun, the prettiness, the glamor. Most of all, she wants a fabulous wedding. Her dreadful father (Bill Hunter) constantly puts her down and constantly elevates himself. He's a councilman. He asks a friend, Deirdre, who has a cosmetics company like Mary Kay, to give Muriel work. He gives Muriel a blank check so she can buy what she needs and start selling. Muriel takes the blank check to the bank, cleans out her father's bank account and heads for a resort where four girls from the "in crowd" - who don't want Muriel around - have gone. There she meets Rhonda (Rachel Griffiths) and starts to have some of the fun she's dreamed about. From there, she moves to Sydney and takes a job in a video store, rooming with Rhonda.

    All of Muriel's dreams eventually come true, but she loses what makes her special and what she has always devalued - herself.

    This is such a splendid film, made all the more magnificent by the performance of one of the truly great actresses of this century, Toni Collette. Collette belongs right up there with Streep, Helen Mirren and Cate Blanchette. She's not there because she's a character actress who disappears into her roles so that she's unrecognizable from film to film. Here she embodies Muriel - overweight, badly dressed, with low self-esteem who, in the process of finding out who she is, emerges as an attractive person who knows what's important and what it is she really wants.

    "Muriel's Wedding" is not a raucous comedy. It has many layers - ridiculous characters, such as her supposed vain friends, and then it turns around and gives you a complicated character like Rhonda, who loves life and lives it with complete abandon until tragedy strikes. Griffiths gives a beautiful performance. Hunter, the man we loved to hate in "Strictly Ballroom," is even more hateful here, but in the end, seems to have learned his lessons too.

    Muriel learns what we all learn - life isn't what goes on on the outside, it's what happens inside. What's valuable isn't the wedding dress and all the pomp, but the souls and love involved and the real meaning of marriage. Then you're a Dancing Queen and you can really feel joy.

    Such a great film, made possible by Collette and Hogan's excellent script and direction. Don't miss it.
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    Details

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    • Release date
      • September 29, 1994 (Australia)
    • Countries of origin
      • Australia
      • France
    • Official sites
      • Official Facebook
      • Official site
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Muriel
    • Filming locations
      • Coolangatta, Queensland, Australia(final scene: Muriel and Rhonda leave Porpoise Spit)
    • Production companies
      • CiBy 2000
      • Film Victoria
      • House & Moorhouse Films
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • $9,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $15,119,639
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $244,969
      • Mar 12, 1995
    • Gross worldwide
      • $15,485,598
    See detailed box office info on IMDbPro

    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 46 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby
      • Dolby SR
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.66 : 1

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