A rather damp film, which I attribute to Ronald Bass's screenplay. Julia Roberts' force 10 smile fades when she learns her best friend Dermot Mulroney is marrying Cameron Diaz and tries to prevent it, without doing the really obvious thing (just telling him). There's an excruciating karaoke episode, followed by an excruciating restaurant/song scene, and Rupert Everett's part had to be extended as he provides film's comic highlights (Roberts falling over repeatedly doesn't qualify). Best scene is Roberts/Diaz confrontation in ladies' loo.
With Philip Bosco, M. Emmett Walsh, Rachel Griffiths, Carrie Preston and Paul Giamatti. Shot by Laszlo Kovacs with a stunning scene on a boat underneath a bridge.
At one point I observed that JR may have been wearing the same dress as in Pretty Woman and declared 'That's it - I'm officially a woman!' - to which Q helpfully retorted 'Or a gay man!'
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