- 27 Dresses
Infobox Film
name = 27 Dresses
caption = Theatrical release poster
director =Anne Fletcher
producer =Gary Barber Roger Birnbaum Jonathan Glickman
Jeffrey Silver
writer =Aline Brosh McKenna
starring =Katherine Heigl James Marsden Malin Åkerman Edward Burns Judy Greer
music =Randy Edelman
music supervisor = Buck Damon
cinematography = Peter James
editing = Priscilla Nedd-Friendly
distributor =20th Century Fox
released =January 18 ,2008
runtime = 111 minutes
country =United States
language = English
budget = $30 million
gross = $159,633,944
website = http://www.27dressesthemovie.com/
amg_id = 1:393989
imdb_id = 0988595"27 Dresses" is a 2008
romantic comedy film directed byAnne Fletcher and written byAline Brosh McKenna . The film starsKatherine Heigl as Jane andJames Marsden as Kevin.The film was released
January 10 ,2008 inAustralia . It opened in theUnited States onJanuary 18 ,2008 and in theUnited Kingdom andIreland onMarch 27 ,2008 . [cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0988595/releaseinfo |title=27 Dresses (2008) - Release dates |accessdate=2008-01-18 |publisher=Internet Movie Database ]Plot
Jane Nichols (
Katherine Heigl ) has been abridesmaid 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 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.
The story flashes forward one year into the future, to Jane and Kevin's wedding. All 27 brides she helped, as well as Tess and Casey, her best friend, are her bridesmaids.
Production
The film started filming on
May 10 ,2007 . Portions of the movie were supposed to take place inRhinebeck, New York but were instead filmed in several locations in the state ofRhode Island .Critical reception
As of
March 24 ,2008 , the review aggregatorRotten Tomatoes reported that 36% of critics gave the film positive reviews, based on 112 reviews. [cite web|url=http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/27_dresses/ |title=27 Dresses - Movie Reviews, Trailers, Pictures - Rotten Tomatoes |accessdate=2008-01-18 |publisher=Rotten Tomatoes ]Metacritic reported the film had an average score of 47 out of 100, based on 30 reviews. [cite web|url=? |title=27 Dresses (2008): Reviews |accessdate=2008-01-18 |publisher=Metacritic ]DVD release
DVD was released on Tuesday
April 29 ,2008 in the US, and MondayJuly 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." [ [http://www.boxofficeguru.com/012108.htm Weekend Box Office ] ]References
External links
* [http://www.27dressesthemovie.com/ Official site]
*imdb title|id=0988595|title=27 Dresses
*rotten-tomatoes|id=27_dresses|title=27 Dresses
*metacritic film|id=27dresses|title=27 Dresses
*mojo title|id=27dresses|title=27 Dresses
*amg movie|id=1:393989|title=27 Dresses
* [http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=32044 DVD Talk discusses Katherine Heigl's performance in "27 Dresses"]
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* [http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1809868432/info 27 Dresses] at [http://movies.yahoo.com Yahoo! Movies]
* [http://www.tapatap.com/contest/bestoftheworstdress?utm_source=wikipedia&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=wikipedialink 27 Dresses Photo Contest] at [http://www.tapatap.com/contest/bestoftheworstdress?utm_source=wikipedia&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=wikipedialink Tapatap]
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