Competition between the maid of honor and a bridesmaid, over who is the bride's best friend, threatens to upend the life of an out-of-work pastry chef.
Mild mannered businessman Sandy Patterson travels from Denver to Florida to confront the deceptively harmless looking woman who has been living it up after stealing Sandy's identity.
A titan of industry is sent to prison after she's caught insider trading. When she emerges ready to rebrand herself as America's latest sweetheart, not everyone she screwed over is so quick to forgive and forget.
Director:
Ben Falcone
Stars:
Melissa McCarthy,
Kristen Bell,
Peter Dinklage
Beca, a freshman at Barden University, is cajoled into joining The Bellas, her school's all-girls singing group. Injecting some much needed energy into their repertoire, The Bellas take on their male rivals in a campus competition.
Pete and Debbie are both about to turn 40, their kids hate each other, both of their businesses are failing, they're on the verge of losing their house, and their relationship is threatening to fall apart.
Annie (Kristen Wiig), is a maid of honor whose life unravels as she leads her best friend, Lillian (Maya Rudolph), and a group of colorful bridesmaids (Rose Byrne, Melissa McCarthy, Wendi McLendon-Covey and Ellie Kemper) on a wild ride down the road to matrimony. Annie's life is a mess. But when she finds out her lifetime best friend is engaged, she simply must serve as Lillian's maid of honor. Though lovelorn and broke, Annie bluffs her way through the expensive and bizarre rituals. With one chance to get it perfect, she'll show Lillian and her bridesmaids just how far you'll go for someone you love.Written by
Anonymous
Before he came to Hollywood, Jon Hamm, who plays Ted in this movie, was a high school drama teacher at the John Burroughs School in Ladue, Missouri. One of his acting students was Ellie Kemper, who plays Becca. See more »
Goofs
When Annie attacks the cookie, she is wearing a low-heeled court shoe, yet when she is seen leaving, she is wearing a flat shoe. See more »
Quotes
[first lines]
Annie:
[having sex]
I'm glad you called.
Ted:
I'm so glad you were free.
Annie:
I love your eyes.
Ted:
Cup my balls.
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Alternate Versions
The 131-minute unrated version contains several additional scenes as follows:
The conversation between Annie (Kristen Wiig) and Mother (Jill Clayburgh) is slightly longer with Mother telling her about Father's "chicken coop" sex act, and it also reveals that Annie's father grew up in a farm.
Becca (Ellie Kemper) mocks Annie for being single and offers to arrange a date for her.
The car ride with Lillian (Maya Rudolph) and Annie after the bridal store fiasco is longer and different than the theatrical version. In the new cut, after Lilian admits crapping her wedding dress, Annie starts to feel uncomfortable, gets out of the car and throws up.
When Annie is at the bathroom, Gil (Matt Lucas) and his sister were in the bathtub together. He asks Annie to hand her the disposable shaver and shaves his sister's armpits.
There's a new 5-minute scene where Annie has a date with a guy called Pete. While waiting at the living room for Pete to get ready, she has a very uncomfortable conversation with his son Taylor (he's talking about "fear of dying", asking about Annie replacing his mother, etc..). After Annie goes upstairs, she overhears Pete talking on the phone telling his wife how he missed her and describes Annie as unattractive. Shocked by that, she went back downstairs and saw Taylor taking some contraceptive pills before leaving the house hastily.
The home video of Megan (Melissa McCarthy) and Jon (Ben Falcone) is slightly longer. She sticks a slice of ham on his chest and eats them. However, Jon's reaction doesn't tell whether he likes it or not.
Shakin' All Over
Written by Johnny Kidd
Performed by Wanda Jackson
Courtesy of Third Man Records/Nonesuch Records
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I had high hopes for this movie, it being touted as a female friendly Hangover movie. I was disappointed with Hangover II, and thought this would be more fresh. How wrong i was.... What really really annoyed me in the movie was the part in the engagement party where the two women were gushing over each other to speak, they changed places like a gazillion times, and kept talking, and talking, until the slightest humor of the occasion was completely gone. As far as I was concerned a lot of the other jokes just fell flat. I couldn't even tell if it was women writing these awful lines or men, giggling insanely as they attempted to make women just seem dumb, stupid, manipulative, bitchy, and so so. I haven't finished the movie yet, I got to half way. That is how bad and poor it was, perhaps the second half is better hence all these good reviews out there. Comedy really needs a shot in the arm.
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I had high hopes for this movie, it being touted as a female friendly Hangover movie. I was disappointed with Hangover II, and thought this would be more fresh. How wrong i was.... What really really annoyed me in the movie was the part in the engagement party where the two women were gushing over each other to speak, they changed places like a gazillion times, and kept talking, and talking, until the slightest humor of the occasion was completely gone. As far as I was concerned a lot of the other jokes just fell flat. I couldn't even tell if it was women writing these awful lines or men, giggling insanely as they attempted to make women just seem dumb, stupid, manipulative, bitchy, and so so. I haven't finished the movie yet, I got to half way. That is how bad and poor it was, perhaps the second half is better hence all these good reviews out there. Comedy really needs a shot in the arm.