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Runaway Bride (1999)
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Reviews Counted:82
Fresh:37
Rotten:45
Average Rating:5.3/10
Consensus: Cliche story with lack of chemistry between Richard Gere and Julia Roberts.
Runtime: 1 hr 56 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis:
Ike Graham (Richard Gere) is a New York newspaper columnist with a problem - his deadline is an hour away, his ex-wife is his boss and his writer's block is working overtime.
Retreating to his...
Ike Graham (Richard Gere) is a New York newspaper columnist with a problem - his deadline is an hour away, his ex-wife is his boss and his writer's block is working overtime.
Retreating to his favorite watering hole to "brainstorm," Ike hears about a young woman in rural Maryland named Maggie (Julia Roberts) who, apparently, loves being engaged, but who has very cold feet about getting married. Intrigued, Ike composes a column about Maggie, beginning a chain of events which leads him to Hale, Maryland, her hometown.
Maggie Carpenter also has a problem - Ike Graham. Furious with the column and its author, she plans to even the score with him. Ike eventually discovers there is much more to Maggie than just a problem with commitment; and he ends up with the story of a lifetime.
Starring: Julia Roberts, Richard Gere, Joan Cusack, Hector Elizondo
Starring: Julia Roberts, Richard Gere, Joan Cusack, Hector Elizondo, Rita Wilson, Paul Dooley
Director: Garry Marshall
Director: Garry Marshall
Screenwriter: Josann McGibbon
Producer: Ted Field
Composer: James Newton Howard
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Reviews for Runaway Bride
This glossy comedy's romantic heat never rises above an amiable simmer - but it's funny and charming nonetheless.
Marshall is too much of a softie; he meanders around the story, milking it for both sentiment and comedy and often tripping over himself in the process.
It isn't that Runaway Bride is a horrible movie, it's that I've already seen a slightly different version of it done dozens of times before.
Runaway Bride works its way into some genuinely compelling emotional territory that Pretty Woman didn't dare acknowledge.
A dull, lifeless stinkbomb that plays like a 2 hour commercial for itself, hoping that the Gere-Roberts-Marshall combination is enough to warrant viewers' money. It isn't.
Roberts is entirely at home in the movie, and her frisky reflexes emerge liberated.
Runaway Bride is a shamelessly manipulative, slick, shallow, contrived piece of old-fashioned, pre-tested, star-driven Hollywood claptrap, and very welcome it is.
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