Runaway Bride

4.00
    Runaway Bride
    1999

    Synopsis

    Having already left three grooms at the altar, Maggie Carpenter is branded "the runaway bride" by jaded New York journalist Ike Graham. But, after his facts are called into question, Ike races to Maggie's hometown to save his reputation and report on her upcoming fourth trip down the aisle – during which he's convinced she'll run again. Though he's there on a muckraking mission, Ike can't help but fall for this breathtaking heartbreaker.

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    Cast

    • Julia RobertsMaggie Carpenter
    • Richard GereIke Graham
    • Joan CusackPeggy Flemming
    • Hector ElizondoFisher
    • Rita WilsonEllie Graham
    • Paul DooleyWalter Carpenter
    • Christopher MeloniCoach Bob Kelly
    • Donal LoguePriest Brian Norris
    • Reg RogersGeorge Swilling
    • Yul VazquezDead Head Gill Chavez

    Recommendations

    • 75

      USA Today

      The movie-calendar equivalent of last July's "Six Days, Seven Nights," this star-powered romance overcomes a shaky start to outpace that passable confection by several runaway laps.
    • 67

      Seattle Post-Intelligencer

      But the movie's vital signs improve remarkably in the second half, and especially in the last act. The proceedings suddenly pick up some screwball charm, the writing improves (with several truly inspired one-liners tossed in here and there) and the secondary characters begin to click.
    • 50

      Chicago Tribune

      A shiny bauble full of dead weight, gloppy good feeling and airless cliches. And every time you try to grab onto "Bride's" characters, they run away. [30 July 1999]
    • 50

      ReelViews

      A clumsy motion picture that strives so hard for the perfect romantic ending that it triggers a gag reflex along the way.
    • 40

      Film.com

      It doesn't generate enough laughs to make up for the fact that you never figure out what he (a misogynistic USA Today columnist played by Richard Gere) sees in her (a dizzy small-town hairdresser played by Roberts). Or, for that matter, what she could ever see in him.
    • 40

      Los Angeles Times

      Runaway Bride's Josann McGibbon & Sara Parriott script is so muddled and contrived, raising issues only to ignore them or throw them away, you wonder why so many people embraced it.
    • 30

      L.A. Weekly

      In "Pretty Woman" Roberts played a tough whore with a soft heart. Here, she's a business owner whose sense of self is so tenuous she doesn't even know how she likes her eggs done.
    • 30

      Film.com

      Comes off as nothing more than a PG-rated excuse to showcase Roberts in a variety of wedding gowns (five, by my count) and an exhausting number of comedy cliches.

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