My Best Friend's Wedding (1997)
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Wikidata Q918380, film, IMDb tt0119738, TMDB 8874: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by episode credits Julia Roberts as actor (‘Father of the Bride’ With Bill Simmons and Amanda Dobbins); 1 more episode agrees.
What a model would be handed about it, for corpus:ask.
Who talked about it
The Rewatchables
Came from
What the speakers say it drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.
No line says it drew on another film or person.
Led to
What the speakers say drew on it, marked the same way.
No line says another film or person drew on it.
Connected to
Father of the Bride: 2 lines theme ×1 unmapped ×1
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theme (shared wedding-movie trope):
Father of the Bride → My Best Friend's Wedding.
Both end with newlyweds leaving for the honeymoon immediately, which never happens in real life.
“By the way, my best friend's wedding does it too.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ With Bill Simmons and Amanda Dobbins · 1:11:05 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80 sure it was them)
When Harry Met Sally: 1 line contrast ×1
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contrast (contrast):
When Harry Met Sally → My Best Friend's Wedding.
Bill says Harry Met Sally is genuinely funny, unlike Pretty Woman or the Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks movies; My Best Friend's Wedding is funny but not hilarious.
“My best friend's wedding is funny, but it's not like, it's not like hilarious.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:06:19 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
Where it came up
- passing in Blank Check with Griffin & David · As Good as It Gets with Chris Gethard, first at 0:35:44, 1 time
- passing in The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ With Bill Simmons, Glen Powell, and Chris Ryan, first at 0:43:45, 1 time
- compared in The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck, first at 0:06:19, 1 time
- compared in The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ With Bill Simmons and Amanda Dobbins, first at 1:11:05, 2 times
What was said about it, by kind
contrast (1)
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contrast (contrast):
When Harry Met Sally → My Best Friend's Wedding.
Bill says Harry Met Sally is genuinely funny, unlike Pretty Woman or the Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks movies; My Best Friend's Wedding is funny but not hilarious.
“My best friend's wedding is funny, but it's not like, it's not like hilarious.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:06:19 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
theme (1)
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theme (shared wedding-movie trope):
Father of the Bride → My Best Friend's Wedding.
Both end with newlyweds leaving for the honeymoon immediately, which never happens in real life.
“By the way, my best friend's wedding does it too.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ With Bill Simmons and Amanda Dobbins · 1:11:05 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80 sure it was them)
unmapped (1)
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unmapped (ending alternative):
Father of the Bride → My Best Friend's Wedding.
A last-minute run back for a hug would echo My Best Friend's Wedding and The Graduate.
“It's like sort of like a reverse to the graduate. Or my best friend's wedding when he pops up at the end”
The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ With Bill Simmons and Amanda Dobbins · 1:23:38 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)
Fun items about it
None.
Who the speakers said made it
As said on the shows, not checked against the real credits.
- Julia Roberts: actor (The Rewatchables, ‘Father of the Bride’ With Bill Simmons and Amanda Dobbins)
- Paul Giamatti: actor (The Rewatchables, ‘The Truman Show’ With Bill Simmons, Glen Powell, and Chris Ryan)
- Dermot Mulroney: actor (The Rewatchables, ‘Father of the Bride’ With Bill Simmons and Amanda Dobbins)