27 Dresses
Plot
Jane Nichols (Katherine Heigl) has been a bridesmaid for twenty-seven weddings. One night when she is attending two weddings almost simultaneously, she meets Kevin Doyle (James Marsden), who helps her home but disgusts her with his cynical views of marriage and steals her planner.
Meanwhile, Jane’s sister Tess (Malin Akerman) falls in love with her boss George (Edward Burns). Tess pretends to like the same things George does so that she can get him to like her; despite loving George herself, Jane does not reveal the truth and the courtship progresses rapidly. Soon the new couple announce that they intend to marry in only three weeks. The reporter who agrees to cover their wedding for the society page turns out to be Kevin, who writes wedding announcements under a pseudonym. The reason he stole Jane’s planner was so he could gather material for a piece on the “perennial bridesmaid” and hopefully be promoted to writing investigative pieces about “real” news.
Jane is unaware of Kevin’s intentions, and when he asks to interview her for his column on Tess, gets her to try on all 27 bridesmaids dresses in her closet. He takes pictures of her in all of them and sends the completed article to his boss. As they get to know each other because of Tess’s wedding, Kevin begins to think that Jane is not as one-dimensional as he thought, and asks his editor to hold his article so he can “fix” it.
His editor runs the article anyway on the front page of the Commitments section, and Jane is furious at him. Tess then gets angry at Jane for giving Kevin material about her, whom he describes as bridezilla. The fight escalates when Jane realizes that Tess destroyed their late mother’s wedding dress to make her own gown.
Despite the fight, Tess still asks Jane to make a slideshow to show at her engagement party. Jane decides that George should know the truth about Tess and instead runs pictures of Tess with other men, eating ribs, and holding a cat by the tail – in short, doing all the things she had told George that she never did. After the young Hispanic child, Pedro, that George mentors tells the crowd that Tess had them cleaning his apartment for money, George breaks off the engagement.
Later at work, George tells Jane that he appreciates her because she never says no. Remembering that Kevin once said the same thing as a criticism, Jane quits and admits she only stayed at the job because she was in love with George. She discovers after an experimental kiss that she no longer loves him and decides to meet Kevin. She announces in front of the entire crowd at a wedding that he is covering that she is in love with him.
One year later at Jane and Kevin’s wedding, George and Tess meet again. All 27 brides she helped, as well as Tess and Casey, her best friend, are her bridesmaids.
Cast
Katherine Heigl as Jane Nichols
James Marsden as Malcolm Kevin Doyle
Malin Akerman as Tess Nichols
Edward Burns as George
Judy Greer as Casey
Maulik Pancholy as Trent
Peyton R. List as Young Jane Nichols
Production
Filming began on May 10, 2007. Portions of the film were supposed to take place in Rhinebeck, New York but were instead filmed in several locations in the state of Rhode Island.
Reception
The review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported that 40% of critics gave the film positive reviews, based on 142 reviews. Metacritic reported the film had an average score of 47 out of 100, based on 31 reviews.
Box office
The film opened at #2 at the North American box office making $23 million USD in its opening weekend behind Cloverfield. As of April 18, 2009, 27 Dresses had grossed $76,808,654 in North America, and $83,450,665 overseas, for a total worldwide gross of $160,259,319. According to boxofficeguru.com, “The audience for the $30M-budgeted 27 Dresses was overwhelmingly female. Studio research showed that 75% of the crowd consisted of women, but the audience was evenly split between those over and under 25.”
Home media
The Blu-ray Disc and DVD was released on April 29, 2008 in the United States and July 29 in the United Kingdom.
References
^ “27 Dresses – Movie Reviews, Trailers, Pictures – Rotten Tomatoes”. Rotten Tomatoes. http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/27_dresses/. Retrieved 2008-01-18.
^ “27 Dresses (2008): Reviews”. Metacritic. http://www.metacritic.com/film/titles/27dresses?q=27%20Dresses. Retrieved 2008-01-18.
^ Box Office Mojo
^ Weekend Box Office
External links
Official website
27 Dresses at the Internet Movie Database
27 Dresses at Rotten Tomatoes
27 Dresses at Metacritic
27 Dresses at Box Office Mojo
27 Dresses at Allmovie
DVD Talk discusses Katherine Heigl’s performance in 27 Dresses
ICE.com’s “27 Jewelry Collection” inspired by 27 Dresses
27 Dresses Photo Contest at Tapatap
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Categories: American films | 2008 films | 2000s romantic comedy films | Films shot anamorphically | American romantic comedy films | 20th Century Fox films | Spyglass Entertainment films
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