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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
Doesn't generate enough laughs to make up for the fact that you never figure out what he (a misogynistic USA Today columnist) sees in her (a dizzy hardware-store manager).
There's no question the chemistry between them still works for a light romantic comedy. But an overcalculated, undernourished screenplay undermines much of the effort.
The film has a lot of sweetness, some honest emotion and one scene between Cusack and Roberts that can stand with the best drama Hollywood produces nowadays.
Roberts and Gere try gamely to look at each other as if there's a scintilla of frisson between them, but often as not they're forced to eschew the drama and go for absurd overacting.
The well-matched stars pick up where they left off on that Hollywood fire escape nine years ago.
Gere and an almost ethereally radiant Roberts have never been better than in this sometimes herky-jerky breeze, which keeps improving as it goes.
It looks as if Julia and the horse were trying to get the hell away from the camera, and into a better movie.
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