Runaway Bride (1999)

Release date: 1999-07-30
Country: USA
Language: English
Director: Garry Marshall
Production Co: Paramount Pictures, Touchstone Pictures, Interscope Communications
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Rating: 5.5/10
Length: 1h 56min

Storyline

Ike Graham has his own by-lined column in USA Today, which he usually uses as a forum to rail against the opposite sex. For his latest column which he writes at the last minute as usual, he, based on some information from a stranger in a bar about a woman he knows of back home, includes the story of still single Hale, Maryland residing Maggie Carpenter, who is known as the "Runaway Bride" since she has been engaged multiple times, but always leaves her betrothed standing at the altar. Because an incensed Maggie complains to the newspaper for factual inaccuracies in her story, Ike is fired, but he realizes that the story still has some life in it and thus decides to go to Hale to do further investigation. He finds that Maggie is again engaged, now for the fourth time, this time to high school football coach and adventurist Bob Kelly, who is confident enough in himself to know he will be different than the previous three grooms. When Maggie finds out that her arch enemy Ike is in town, ...

Plot Keywords

maryland, wedding, small town, new york city, bride and groom, fiance fiancee relationship, wedding gown, columnist, bride, journalist, best friend, flirting, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, catholic, priest, auto mechanic, video tape, hardware store, drinking

Short Review

Why does Runaway Bride feel so off? Why does it produce such halfhearted laughter? This is the sort of Hollywood tale in which everything seems to have been decided by committee.