The plane makes an emergency landing in Casper, Wyoming, and the party takes a bus back home. Annie accepts a sedative and liquor from Helen to calm her massive fear of flying and she begins to hallucinate, ending in a paranoid outburst. Unable to afford a first-class ticket and too proud to allow Helen to pay, Annie books a ticket in economy class while the others fly first class. While trying on gowns, the entire party – except Helen, who chose not to eat – begins vomiting and experiencing uncontrollable diarrhea from food poisoning, with Lillian voiding her bowels in the middle of the street while wearing a wedding dress.Īnnie's suggestion for a bachelorette party at Lillian’s parents’ lakehouse is overruled in favor of a Las Vegas trip planned by Helen. Annie and Helen are soon jealous of each other's friendship with Lillian, and the two become increasingly competitive with each other.Īnnie takes Lillian and the bridesmaids to a Brazilian steak restaurant before visiting an upscale bridal shop, where Helen uses her influence to gain entry as Annie failed to make a reservation. When Lillian becomes engaged to her boyfriend Doug ( Tim Heidecker), she asks Annie to be her maid of honor.Īt the engagement party, Annie meets Lillian's bridesmaids: Lillian's long-married and cynical cousin Rita ( Wendi McLendon-Covey) Lillian's naïve newlywed coworker Becca ( Ellie Kemper) Doug's blunt, foul-mouthed but friendly sister Megan ( Melissa McCarthy) and the wealthy and beautiful Helen ( Rose Byrne), Doug's boss' trophy wife. The only positive presence in her life is her lifelong best friend Lillian ( Maya Rudolph). Annie has a casual sexual relationship with the rude and self-absorbed Ted ( Jon Hamm), but hopes for something more from him. Having lost her passion for baking, she works at a jewelry store and shares an apartment with eccentric English immigrant siblings Gil ( Matt Lucas) and Brynn ( Rebel Wilson). Her bakery failed due to the recession, wiping out her savings, and her boyfriend left her thereafter. This made Bridesmaids the first Apatow-produced film to be nominated for an Academy Award.Īnnie Walker ( Kristen Wiig) is a single woman in her mid-thirties, living in Milwaukee. In 2012, the film was nominated for both the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Melissa McCarthy and Best Original Screenplay for Wiig and Mumolo. īridesmaids was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy. The film made $26 million in its opening weekend, eventually earning over $288 million worldwide, and surpassed Knocked Up to become the top-grossing Apatow production to date, and served as a touchstone for discussion about women in comedy. Upon its opening release in the United States and Canada on May 13, 2011, Bridesmaids was a critical and commercial success. Īctresses Mumolo and Wiig wrote the screenplay after the latter was cast in Apatow's 2007 comedy film Knocked Up, and budgeted at $32.5 million. Rose Byrne, Melissa McCarthy, Ellie Kemper, and Wendi McLendon-Covey co-star as Lillian's bridesmaids, with Chris O'Dowd, Rebel Wilson, Matt Lucas, Michael Hitchcock, Jon Hamm, Franklyn Ajaye, and Jill Clayburgh, in her final film appearance, in supporting roles.
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The plot centers on Annie (Wiig), who suffers a series of misfortunes after being asked to serve as maid of honor for her best friend, Lillian, played by Maya Rudolph.
Bridesmaids is a 2011 American comedy film directed by Paul Feig, written by Annie Mumolo and Kristen Wiig, and produced by Judd Apatow, Barry Mendel, and Clayton Townsend.
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