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| Directed by | Anne Fletcher |
| Produced by | Gary Barber Roger Birnbaum Jonathan Glickman Jeffrey Silver |
| Written by | Aline Brosh McKenna |
| Starring | Katherine Heigl James Marsden Malin Åkerman Edward Burns Judy Greer Maulik Pancholy |
| Music by | Randy Edelman |
| Cinematography | Peter James |
| Editing by | Priscilla Nedd-Friendly |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
| Release date(s) | January 18, 2008 |
| Running time | 111 min. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $30 million |
| Gross revenue | $159,633,944 |
27 Dresses is a 2008 romantic comedy film directed by Anne Fletcher and written by Aline Brosh McKenna. The film stars Katherine Heigl as Jane and James Marsden as Kevin.
The film was released January 10, 2008 in Australia. It opened in the United States on January 18, 2008 and in the United Kingdom and Ireland on March 27, 2008.1
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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 finds the planner she left behind in the taxi they shared.
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 didn't return Jane's planner, after finding it, 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 be shown 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 (Judy Greer), her best friend, are her bridesmaids.
Production
The film started filming on May 10, 2007. Portions of the movie were supposed to take place in Rhinebeck, New York but were instead filmed in several locations in the state of Rhode Island.
Critical reception
As of March 24, 2008, the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported that 36% of critics gave the film positive reviews, based on 112 reviews.2 Metacritic reported the film had an average score of 47 out of 100, based on 30 reviews.3
DVD release
DVD was released on Tuesday April 29, 2008 in the US, and Monday July 28, 2008 in the UK; in Widescreen and Full-Screen Editions.
Box office
As of May 7, 2008, 27 Dresses has grossed $76,808,654 in North America, and $82,825,290 overseas, for a total worldwide gross of $159,633,944. 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."4
References
- ^ "27 Dresses (2008) - Release dates". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved on 2008-01-18.
- ^ "27 Dresses - Movie Reviews, Trailers, Pictures - Rotten Tomatoes". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved on 2008-01-18.
- ^ "[? 27 Dresses (2008): Reviews]". Metacritic. Retrieved on 2008-01-18.
- ^ Weekend Box Office
External links
- Official site
- 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 at Yahoo! Movies
- 27 Dresses Photo Contest at Tapatap
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