The delightful Kristen Wiig, who's shone in dozens of supporting roles and on Saturday Night Live, hits a bull's-eye with her first lead role in Bridesmaids. Annie (Wiig) isn't doing so well; her bakery failed and she keeps sleeping with a good-looking louse (Jon Hamm, Mad Men), but she's always had her best friend Lillian (Maya Rudolph, Away We Go) to buoy her up… until Lillian gets engaged. Annie becomes maid of honor, but another friend of Lillian's--the rich and lovely Helen (Rose Byrne, Get Him to the Greek)--wants to take over that position. Misadventures with bad Brazilian food, dress fittings, an unfortunate flight to Vegas, and a sympathetic traffic cop (Chris O'Dowd from British TV comedy The IT Crowd) follow, with increasingly hilarious results. Bridesmaids successfully balances raunchy comedy and character portrait. The embarrassing and socially catastrophic stuff, which in too many movies balloons into absurdity, is here kept in check just enough to allow Annie and the other characters to be multidimensional people--without the movie losing its comic capacity for cringe. (Actress Melissa McCarthy, of Mike & Molly, works miracles with a character than in most hands would be pure cartoon.) Wiig's enormous appeal keeps Annie sympathetic, even as she becomes more and more of a train wreck. Bridesmaids is both smart and dumb, raunchy and earnest, and altogether enjoyable.
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Kristen Wiig | Annie |
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Terry Crews | Boot Camp Instructor |
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Maya Rudolph | Lillian |
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Tom Yi | Jewelry Store Couple |
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Elaine Kao | Jewelry Store Couple |
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Michael Hitchcock | Don Cholodecki |
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Kali Hawk | Kahlua |
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Joe Nunez | Oscar the Security Guard |
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Rebel Wilson | Brynn |
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Matt Lucas | Gil |
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Jill Clayburgh | Annie's Mom |
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Wendi McLendon-Covey | Rita |
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Ellie Kemper | Becca |
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Greg Tuculescu | Kevin |
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Steve Bannos | Annie's Mistaken Husband |
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Melissa McCarthy | Megan |
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Hugh Dane | Annie's Mistaken Fella |
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Rose Byrne | Helen |
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Franklin Ajaye | Lillian's Dad |
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Tim Heidecker | Dougie |
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Lynne Marie Stewart | Lillian's Mom |
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Andy Buckley | Helen's Husband |
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Chris O'Dowd | Rhodes |
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Molly Buffington | Helen's Stepdaughter |
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Matt Bennett | Helen's Stepson |
| Director | Paul Feig |
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| Writer | Kristen Wiig, Annie Mumolo | |
| Producer | Judd Apatow, Paul Feig, Lisa Goldberg, Barry Mendel, Annie Mumolo, Clayton Townsend, Kristen Wiig | |
| Musician | Michael Andrews | |
| Photography | Robert D. Yeoman | |
| Edition | 2 Disc Blu-Ray, DVD & Digital Copy Edition |
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| Packaging | Slip Case |
| Nr Discs | 2 |
| Screen Ratios | Theatrical Widescreen (2.35:1) |
| Audio Tracks | DTS-HD High Resolution Audio [English] |
| Subtitles | French | Spanish |
| Distributor | Universal |
| Layers | Single side, Single layer |
| Edition Release Date | Sep 20, 2011 |
| Regions | Region 0 |
| Watched | Sep 24, 2011 |
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| Index | 4049 |
| Added Date | Dec 12, 2012 01:15:22 |
| Modified Date | Mar 26, 2019 22:03:50 |