My Best Friend's Wedding, 1997

THURSDAY MOVIE CONNECTION!!!
Rupert Everett--Julia Roberts



Director: P.J. Hogan

Stars: Julia Roberts, Dermot Mulroney, Rupert Everett, Cameron Diaz




It's almost Julianne's (Roberts) birthday, and she remembers that she and her best friend Michael (Mulroney) once promised each other that if they weren't married by the time they were 30, they'd marry each other.  When he calls her that night, he tells her he's getting married to Kimberly (Diaz), and she suddenly realizes she loves him and wants him for herself.

It's only days before the wedding, and Julianne must act quickly if she wants Michael for herself.  She has her gay friend George (Everett) to pretend he's her boyfriend, just to make Michael jealous.  That makes for some funny stuff.  

I remember watching this one a lot when it was new.  I haven't seen it in years, so maybe it's not exactly what I remember.

While You Were Sleeping, 1995

Director: Jon Turteltaub (National Treasure, Cool Runnings)

Stars: Sandra Bullock, Bill Pullman, Peter Gallagher, Jack Warden, Peter Boyle, Monica Keena

How did 1995 get to me 16 years ago? What happened?

Lucy (Bullock), single and without any family in the big city of Chicago, agrees to work Christmas day at the subway because everyone else has family obligations. But her Christmas suddenly changes when a handsome passenger whose eye she's been trying to catch is pushed onto the tracks-- and she saves his life.

At the hospital she meets his family, the Callahans, and by some crazy mistake, they are told that she is his- Peter's (Gallagher)- fiancee. He can't argue about it because he's in a coma, and because of Peter's grandmother's heart condition, Lucy is afraid to tell his family the truth. And when they invite her to Christmas dinner and she experiences being in a family again, she has another reason not to tell them. But things get complicated when she meets Peter's brother Jack (Pullman), and they end up liking each other.

Totally hilarious and sweet!

The Fugitive, 1993

Director: Andrew Davis

Stars: Harrison Ford, Tommy Lee Jones, Sela Ward

Dr. Richard Kimble (Ford) comes home to find his wife (Ward) murdered, and fights off an intruder in his house. But no one believes him about the intruder and he gets sent to prison for her murder.

While being transferred to another prison, another prisoner tries to escape, causing the bus to go off the road and onto a train track, where it gets hit by a train. (What are the chances?) Anyway, the Federal Marshals arrive (including Jones) and the manhunt begins. They are to search every "warehouse, farmhouse, hen house, doghouse, and outhouse" until their fugitive is found!

But Kimble puzzles them all by heading right back into Chicago, rather than escaping, and investigating his wife's murder himself, since no one else believes him.

I am weird about this movie. It's not like I love it, I just can never look away from it. I think yesterday was the first time I had ever watched it from the beginning. Usually I come across accidentally on tv, and then I just have to watch it!