Muriels Wedding
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| Directed by | P. J. Hogan |
| Produced by | Lynda House Jocelyn Moorhouse |
| Written by | P. J. Hogan |
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| Music by | Peter Best |
| Cinematography | Martin McGrath |
| Edited by | Jill Bilcock |
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| Distributed by | Miramax Films |
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101 minutes |
| Country | Australia |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $9 million |
| Box office | $57.5 million |
Muriel's Wedding is a 1994 Australian comedy-drama film written and directed by P. J. Hogan. The film, which stars actors Toni Collette, Rachel Griffiths, Jeanie Drynan, Sophie Lee, and Bill Hunter, focuses on the socially awkward Muriel whose ambition is to have a glamorous wedding and improve her personal life by moving from her dead end home town, the fictional Porpoise Spit, to Sydney.
The film received multiple award nominations, including a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy (Collette).
Muriel Heslop (Toni Collette), who loves the music of ABBA, is the target of ridicule by the shallow and snobby girls she considers her friends for her awkwardness, fashion sense, and embarrassing antics. She also is a perpetual daydreamer who yearns for a glamorous wedding to a man who will help get her out of the dead-end seaside tourist town of Porpoise Spit, improve her personal life, and free her from her domineering father, Bill (Bill Hunter), a corrupt politician who verbally lashes out at his subservient wife, Betty, and their unambitious children at every opportunity. Meanwhile, Muriel's "friends" plan a holiday to Hibiscus Island without her.
While out to dinner, Muriel and her family run into Bill's rumored mistress, Deidre Chambers, who has done well in a cosmetics pyramid scheme, and she recruits Muriel. The following day, Betty writes a blank check for Muriel to cash into the scheme. Instead, Muriel uses the check to withdraw $12,000 from her parents' bank account to follow her supposed friends to Hibiscus Island; when they discover Muriel there, they angrily tell her to leave them alone. Later on the island, Muriel runs into Rhonda Epinstalk (Rachel Griffiths), a fellow social outcast from her high school days who is more outgoing and adventurous. Rhonda confronts and dresses down Muriel's former social group, who also bullied her in high school. During the trip, Muriel lies to Rhonda about being engaged.
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