Synopsis
A young social outcast in Australia steals money from her parents to finance a vacation where she hopes to find happiness, and perhaps love.
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Cast
- Toni ColletteMuriel Heslop
- Bill HunterBill Heslop
- Rachel GriffithsRhonda Epinstalk
- Sophie LeeTania Degano
- Jeanie DrynanBetty Heslop
- Gennie NevinsonDeidre Chambers
- Daniel LapaineDavid Van Arckle
- Matt DayBrice Nobes
- Roz HammondCheryl
- Belinda JarrettJanine
Recommendations
- 100
Los Angeles Times
Wickedly mocking but empathetic, able to laugh at its characters while paying attention to their sorrows, this subversive comedy about self-esteem resists the notion that films have to timidly remain within tidy genre rules. - 75
ReelViews
While Muriel's Wedding has its moments of exhilarating humor, it is, as often as not, downbeat and even mean-spirited. - 75
Rolling Stone
A crowd pleaser that spices a tired formula with genuine feeling. - 75
San Francisco Chronicle
There's poignant drama in this brash, sometimes overstated film, and Muriel's transformation is truly touching. - 70
The New York Times
Muriel's Wedding runs into trouble when it looks for poignancy too openly, working better at giddy moments than in its occasional sad ones. Most of the time, Mr. Hogan keeps his story light and surprising. - 67
Austin Chronicle
Thankfully there are no weight-loss montage sequences; what you see with Muriel is what you get, like it or not. This refusal to change or convert the main characters makes the film so appealing. - 50
TV Guide Magazine
Ultimately, the comedy here is grounded in self-hatred, hostility, and despair. Nearly everyone who wanders through this brash and deliberately tasteless film is stupid, ungainly, or grotesquely tragic. But this only heightens the pleasure during moments of delirious merriment. - 50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Watching this is a feature-length exercise in frustration - comedy that promises to be amusingly black stays uniformly grey; sentiment that looks to be credibly bittersweet winds up badly soured. We're constantly tantalized and perpetually disappointed, but don't despair - there's one terrific bonus...Toni Collette.
