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My Best Friend's Wedding (1997)

★ 6.6 · 2,874 ratings on TMDB

Julianne fell in love with her best friend the day he decided to marry someone else.

My Best Friend's Wedding poster★ 6.6

When she receives word that her longtime platonic pal Michael O'Neal is getting married to debutante Kimberly Wallace, food critic Julianne Potter realizes her true feelings for Michael -- and sets out to sabotage the wedding.

DirectorP.J. Hogan
CastCameron Diaz, Carrie Preston, Christopher Masterson, Dermot Mulroney, Julia Roberts, M. Emmet Walsh
GenresComedy, Romance
The emergence reading

My Best Friend's Wedding keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same subject, different rung

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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