What the corpus says about My Best Friend's Wedding (1997)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished My Best Friend's Wedding (1997) and wants to know what to watch next.

Below is what people who love movies said on three podcasts (Blank Check, The Rewatchables, The Big Picture) about My Best Friend's Wedding (1997) and the films around it, one line each. Every line starts with where it came from, in brackets: [show · episode · time · speaker (how sure we are it was them)]. A [pairs] line says how often two films were put side by side. A [speaker] line says what that person likes. A [bits] line lists a show's running bits: a format, not an opinion.

[The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ · 1:11:05 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80)] Father of the Bride ↔ My Best Friend's Wedding · theme · 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 · ‘Knocked Up’ · 0:06:19 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] When Harry Met Sally ↔ My Best Friend's Wedding · contrast · 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 · ‘Father of the Bride’ · 1:23:38 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Father of the Bride ↔ My Best Friend's Wedding · ending alternative · 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"
[pairs] My Best Friend's Wedding ↔ Father of the Bride · said 2 times in 1 episode
[The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ · 0:02:04 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Father of the Bride ⇒ Father of the Bride (the host's read) · lineage · The 1991 film remakes the Spencer Tracy and Elizabeth Taylor original, and the duo argue the remake anxiety has faded with time. · "there is obviously the original with Spencer Tracy and Elizabeth Taylor, but fine."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 2:14:05 · unknown (0.40)] About Last Night ⇒ When Harry Met Sally (the host's read) · lineage · About Last Night paved the way for When Harry Met Sally and other R-rated rom-coms. · "which I don't think it's enough credit for 80s kind of paving the way for when Harry Met Sally and some of these other ones."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ · 0:08:22 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Father of the Bride ↔ Blade Runner · lineage · A 1991 remake of a 1950 film is like remaking Blade Runner now, 40 years on. · "think about movies in 1982 now that that would be the 40 year mark where it would be like if they were remaking Blade Runner"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ · 0:03:12 · Bill Simmons (0.90)] When Harry Met Sally ⇒ Knocked Up (the host's read) · lineage · Bill dates the rom-com boom as starting with When Harry Met Sally and running to the mid 2000s, with Knocked Up on the other side of the shift. · "It starts with when Harry Met Sally."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ · 0:08:43 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] Father of the Bride ↔ Parenthood · lineage · Martin had been doing family-friendly dad stuff before, in Parenthood, but this is where he nails it. · "he had been doing some of this like family friendly dad stuff before parenthood, et cetera."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ · 0:06:52 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Woody Allen ⇒ When Harry Met Sally (the host's read) · lineage · A speaker says Harry Met Sally uses New York as a character, which was the Woody Allen trick. · "Well, and it uses New York too as like a real character, which was the Woody Allen trick."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ · 0:19:21 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] Father of the Bride ↔ Baby Boom · lineage · Baby Boom has some of the Meyers aesthetics (the Vermont kitchen), but Father of the Bride is where the full Nancy Meyers formula clicks in. · "I think Father of the Bride is really where you see the Nancy Myers formula, just like clicking in the house, the kitchen, the skirt suits"
[Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail · 0:30:40 · unknown (0.00)] When Harry Met Sally ⇒ You've Got Mail (the host's read) · lineage · The party scene where someone says they read the writer's piece is lifted from When Harry Met Sally. · "Which is also, which is a scene that's ultimately like lifted from when Harry met Sally."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ · 0:25:08 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Father of the Bride ↔ Risky Business · lineage · Remaking a film starring the biggest stars of 1982-83 would still have them hanging over it, as Elizabeth Taylor hung over the 1991 remake. · "if you remade risky business, Tom Cruise would hang over that movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail · 0:04:09 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] You've Got Mail ↔ When Harry Met Sally · theme · Food scenes recur across Ephron's films: Katz's deli, the garnish here, the pie in Heartburn. · "And even obviously, like Cats's deli in... When Harry Met Sally and the Garnish here, like, and the pie in heartburn."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ · 0:42:54 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Parenthood ↔ Father of the Bride · lineage · Parenthood's famous little league scene shows Martin's athleticism, used to argue he made a Father of the Bride trick shot himself. · "Because you think about like the parenthood, the famous little league scene."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 1:16:15 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] A Bronx Tale ↔ When Harry Met Sally · craft · C's long jogging scene at the end is compared to When Harry Met Sally. · "I don't love C's run at the end, the when Harry met Sally, long jogging scene"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ · 0:46:18 · Amanda Dobbins (0.90)] Father of the Bride ⇒ Father of the Bride Part II (the host's read) · lineage · Dobbins is okay with Part II because it comments on weddings and pregnancy smartly and she likes the family; it made $76.6M on a $30M budget. · "I'm okay with Father of the Bride too."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ · 0:06:41 · Juliet Litman (0.70)] Harry Connick Jr. ↔ When Harry Met Sally · craft · Juliet credits the Harry Connick Jr. music with giving When Harry Met Sally a real vibe that sets it apart from other 1989-2005 rom-coms. · "it has a real vibe to it, the Harry Connick Jr. music, like all of that, which separates that from many of the other rom-coms that were in that era from 89 to 05."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ · 0:47:27 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70)] Father of the Bride ⇒ Father of the Bride Part 3 (Netflix Zoom reunion) (the host's read) · lineage · The virtual Netflix reunion is called a low point of the pandemic. · "The virtual Netflix sequel. I think was one of the low points of the pandemic."
[speaker] Amanda Dobbins · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · Loves The Strangers' withholding craft and a good tense horror film without gore, but likes fun, communal movies like Mamma Mia. She dislikes supernatural or gory horror, which irritates her more than it scares her. She is a sucker for stars and for Googling a movie mid-recording. · stances: The Strangers is scary because of what it doesn't show or explain; Ending explanation weakens it; no answer would be better; Prefers 'withholding' filmmaking; Defends Mamma Mia as joyful and intentional
[speaker] Bill Simmons · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · Loves the Friday series as a communal, rental-era memory and tells childhood stories about the ads and theaters. Likes casting what-ifs and sports analogies for everything. Skeptical of horror at Christmas and of anything that wastes the premise. · stances: Friday the 13th is not the best entry but the origin story had to be told; Friday 2 is a leap over the original
[bits] The Rewatchables: Apex Mountain (The moment a star peaks; where on the mountain a performance sits); Who Won the Movie (The hosts name the person who came out of the film best off); The Ebert review (Roger Ebert's original review and star rating read aloud. Ebert is cited, never on the show); Casting what-ifs (Who was almost cast, or who should have been); Most rewatchable scene (The scene each host would stop on while flipping channels); Aged best / aged worst (What holds up and what does not); Picking Nits (The little things in a film the hosts love that they don't think totally work: the nits); Double feature (The film each host would pair it with; a programming pick)

Recommend three to six films, and only films that appear in these lines. A series, a TV film, or a franchise counts too when a line recommends it or pairs it with My Best Friend's Wedding (1997); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend My Best Friend's Wedding (1997) itself. For each one, give one short reason in your own words and say whose reason it is: the show, named exactly as the brackets name it, and the speaker when the line names one (an "unknown" speaker is just the show). If the lines are thin, say so plainly rather than stretching them.

Keep a contrast a contrast. When a line sets two films apart, the reason is how they differ; never turn it into a way they're alike. A line with ⇒ puts the source first and what drew on it second, and one marked "the maker said so" is still the host reporting it: say who said it, and never state an influence as fact.

You know only what's on these lines. Add no fact they don't state: not who directed a film, not what kind of film it is, not when it came out, unless a line says so. Say nothing about the store or how anything rents here.

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