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	Runaway Bride (1999): Reviews
		More often, the film is like a ride through a car wash: forward motion, familiar phases in the same old order and a sense of being carried along steadily on a well-used track.
		Runaway Bride's Josann McGibbon & Sara Parriott script is so muddled and contrived, raising issues only to ignore them or throw them away, you wonder why so many people embraced it.
		Runaway Bride isn't as offensive as most studio romantic comedies—just pointless and dull.
	www.metacritic.com /video/titles/runawaybride (1147 words)

	Runaway bride - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A runaway bride is a bride who runs away from the wedding chapel, usually shortly before the ceremony.
		Runaway Bride, a 1999 romantic comedy starring Julia Roberts and Richard Gere.
		Jennifer Wilbanks is a runaway bride from Duluth, Georgia who received national media attention after disappearing in late April 2005.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Runaway_bride (158 words)

	Runaway Bride (1999 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Runaway Bride is a 1999 romantic comedy starring Richard Gere and Julia Roberts and directed by Garry Marshall.
		While not as successful in the ticket boxes as the previous movie the three made together, Pretty Woman, the movie was, nevertheless, a hit among moviegoers.
		Meanwhile, in New York, reporter Ike Graham (played by Gere), after writing a factually incorrect article concerning her and being fired for it, is assigned to do another, correct article to get his job back.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Runaway_Bride_(1999) (288 words)

	Julia Roberts - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Her impressive film career has also given her the title of most bankable actress in Hollywood, with box office receipts well over two billion dollars on the strength of numerous blockbusters such as Pretty Woman, Runaway Bride, and Ocean's Eleven.
		Julia Roberts made her film debut playing a supporting role opposite her brother, Eric, in Blood Red (she gets just two words dialog), which although completed in 1986 was not released until 1989.
		For the next few years, she starred in a series of films that were critical and commercial failures, primarily because she was cast in roles that strayed too far from her film persona.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Julia_Roberts (1419 words)

	Runaway Bride (1999)
		Through the course of the film, as Maggie exacts her revenge against Ike, and while he infuriates her by ingratiating himself to her friends and family, the two begin to learn more about each other and about themselves.
		Runaway Bride appears in its original theatrical aspect ratio of 2.35:1 on this single-sided, dual-layered DVD; the image has been enhanced for 16X9 televisions.
		It's one of those films that's mildly tolerable and entertaining the first time through but that absolutely collapses during the subsequent viewings; every fault that seemed forgivable initially screams to the forefront and makes the poor quality of the work all the more apparent.
	www.dvdmg.com /runawaybride.shtml (1597 words)

	village voice > film > Those Who Love Me...; Runaway Bride; Blair Witch’s anticinefeminism by Amy Taubin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The film's governing conscience is François (Pascal Greggory), who may have loved the dead man more than did anyone else but who also has a steady boyfriend, Louis (Bruno Todeschini), and a secret lover, Bruno (Sylvain Jacques), an exquisite, fragile boy who hangs out in railroad stations picking up tricks.
		American viewers, who've come to expect a film to spoon-feed them plot, characters, and motivations, tend to react with hostility to a film that can't be totally apprehended in a single viewing.
		I loved this film from the first time I saw it but it took me a second viewing to sort out the characters and relationships, and a third to begin to appreciate the intricacies of the form.
	www.villagevoice.com /issues/9931/taubin.php (1074 words)

	CANOE -- JAM! Movies - Artists - Roberts, Julia: Bride and gloom
		Runaway Bride was billed, of course, as the reunion of the Pretty Woman team.
		Roberts, I have to admit, is at the top of her luminous movie-star form in Bride, but it is a rarely funny comedy and a romance virtually bereft of charm.
		Bride's premise is as absurdly contrived as the one in Pretty Woman, which is saying something.
	jam.canoe.ca /Movies/Artists/R/Roberts_Julia/2000/01/28/761191.html (646 words)

	RUNAWAY BRIDE
		RUNAWAY BRIDE begins with an interesting enough concept and that's where it stays.
		This film never even tries to scratch the surface of these characters, relying on the premise that a bride running from the church, using various modes of transportation, will be engaging and funny enough to keep the audience interested.
		Roberts plays the bride with a committment problem, Gere plays a NY columnist who exposes her eccentricities to the world and eventually falls for her himself.
	crazy4cinema.com /Review/FilmsR/f_rbride.html (487 words)

	September 2001 - Maryland Film Office - iCOM Magazine
		Among the most recent feature films shot in Maryland are an HBO movie Shot in the Heart, based on the Gary Gilmore story and the Disney film Tuck Everlasting, based on the popular 1970s children's book about a family with a fountain of youth in their backyard.
		Other films that have been filmed either partially or entirely in Maryland in recent years include; The Replacements, starring Keanu Reeves and Gene Hackman; the John Waters film Cecil B. Demented, starring Melanie Griffith; and Blair Witch II, the sequel to the highly successful 1999 independent film, The Blair Witch Project.
		The Maryland Film Office, located in Baltimore, MD, is an agency of the Maryland Department of Business and Economic Development, with the Division of Tourism, Film and the Arts.
	www.icommag.com /september2001/film_office.html (919 words)

	The Austin Chronicle Screens: The Year of Being John Malkovich
		Everywhere, pundits have been proclaiming 1999 as a good year for movies, citing the number of excellent films released during the past months and the ease of compiling Top 10 lists as evidence of the year's bounty.
		Films classified as "near misses" were not assigned any numerical value.
		All genres of film were equally eligible -- narrative, documentary, foreign, etc. -- as long as they opened for a theatrical run in Austin during the calendar year 1999.
	www.austinchronicle.com /issues/dispatch/2000-01-07/screens_feature.html (845 words)

	DVD Review - Runaway Bride (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		"Runaway Bride" is well-acted and nicely shot by director Gary Marshall, who does a fine job of capturing the beautiful local scenery.
		During the last forty minutes of the film, things roll along nicely and most of these discrepancies can be put to the side, but they definitely hurt the film.
		The Paramount DVD of "Runaway Bride" presents the film in a anamorphic widescreen, which is letterboxed at 1.85:1.
	www.dvdreview.com /fullreviews/runaway_bride.shtml (861 words)

	Runaway Bride
		‘Runaway Bride’ also stars Richard Gere, making the film a reunion of the winning team behind the success of Pretty Woman,’; which was the top-grossing film in American in 1990.
		‘Runaway Bride’ is one of those movies that you can safely describe as a whole lot of nothing, a big ball of fluff, even a "chick flick," if that term didn’t frustrate me with its simplicity and generalization.
		‘Runaway Bride’ does, I must admit, develop its characters with a respectable level of skill (Marshall has chalked up considerable experience since he began working in Hollywood in the 60’s), but the screenplay, written by three different people, is exhausting, when it probably should have been uplifting.
	www.infilm.com.au /reviews/runawayb.htm (326 words)

	`Runaway's' Roberts, Gere a Dashing Pair / Stars team up again for delightful `Bride'
		The film reteams, nine years later, ``Pretty Woman'' stars Roberts and Richard Gere with director Garry Marshall, a veteran formula comedy man who knows how to sprinkle on the charm when he has a good script.
		``Runaway Bride'' doesn't intend to make intellectual demands, even as it forces a few leaps of faith: newspaper columnists so popular that they are accosted by readers on the street; a car that breaks down because it was inadvertently fueled with leaded gas.
		When it dawns on her that she is the butt of too many cruel jokes in town, the film turns poignant.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/1999/07/30/DD17607.DTL&type=printable (734 words)

	iafrica.com \| news \| quirky & bizarre 'Runaway bride' could face charges
		When American bride-to-be Jennifer Wilbanks got cold feet, she didn't just jilt her groom — she left TV viewers nursing feelings of betrayal and may yet land in jail.
		Reporters breathlessly related the latest snippets of news, and as life imitated Hollywood, comparisons were soon drawn with the 1999 film 'The Runaway Bride,' starring Julia Roberts and Richard Gere.
		Media coverage of the affair is "amazing, crazy," said Rachel Safier, a prospective bride who had second thoughts and turned her agony into a book and a website, www.theregoesthebride.com.
	iafrica.com /news/quirky/437174.htm (604 words)

	Runaway Bride Movie Review by Anthony Leong (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		But instead of an enthralling romantic comedy that captures the magic from nine years ago, "Runaway Bride" is a formulaic picture that spends most of its time on autopilot.
		The theme that holds "Runaway Bride" together is actually quite interesting.
		At its worst, "Runaway Bride" is a cloying and annoying feel-good movie whose toying with audience emotions ultimately wastes both the talents of its actors and the promise of its premise.
	members.aol.com /aleong1631/runawaybride.html (892 words)

	filmcritic.com Movie Review: Runaway Bride
		Runaway Bride is no exception to the rule.
		Runaway Bride brings writer Garry Marshall back together with Roberts, Richard Gere, and memorable Pretty Woman costar Hector Elizondo for another unlikely love story.
		I found the film ran long and that small town life in Hale, Maryland was a little too Hollywood, rekindling frightful memories of Leave It to Beaver and The Nelsons.
	www.filmcritic.com /misc/emporium.nsf/2a460f93626cd4678625624c007f2b46/ee0883b9ec262f3a882567bf000a1645?OpenDocument (603 words)

	Runaway Bride (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Runaway Bride reunites Julia Roberts, Richard Gere, and director Gary Marshall for another go at improbable love and box-office success.
		The titular bride is Maggie Carpenter (Roberts), infamous for bolting at the altar (she wears running shoes under her wedding dresses).
		The runaway bride's skittishness comes head to head with Ike's relaxed reporterly veneer in Maggie's mythic Maryland home, one of those Eastern seaboard dream towns where every resident is white.
	www.infoplease.com /ipea/A0779908.html (320 words)

	Runaway Bride
		Runaway Bride wants so badly to be liked it’s less a movie than a lapdog.
		The film is so lazy and inept that we see her handing him a battered copy of Kind of Blue.
		Joan Cusack is the best thing in the film, as she usually is. She has a gift for enlivening cliches, taking terrible ideas and goosing them with her perfect timing and elastic face.
	www.culturevulture.net /Movies/RunawayBride.htm (854 words)

	Runaway Bride
		He happens upon a story of a women named Maggie Carpenter (Julia Roberts) who is a habitual bride, albeit until the ceremony actually begins at which point she rushes from the church leaving the groom and the guests in the lurch.
		What Runaway Bride tries to do is recapture this magic, but all it succeeds in doing is being emotionless, twee and downright embarrassing.
		The only shining light of the film seems to be its apparent lack of "cash in" sequelsness (being almost ten years later) to which we must applaud.
	www.bestdvd.co.uk /reviews/rev_runawaybride.html (519 words)

	Runaway Bride \| By Lovell Mahan-Moutaw
		Runaway Bride is such a wonderful romance, I wanted to turn around, buy another ticket and watch it again.
		Through the film, this concept is brought into focus for us and for Ike, as it delves gently into its characters.
		Runaway Bride has much the same self-discovery for our heroine...that the search for love does not include losing yourself.
	www.cinescene.com /reviews/rb081999.html (625 words)

	Entertainment Watch: Otherworldly Disturbances - TV and Movie Reviews - October 1999 Issue of St. Anthony Messenger ...
		They aim to make a film about the legend of a witch-in-the-woods, who is presumably responsible for many odd deaths and disappearances over a century and a half.
		The film’s awesome box-office clout can perhaps be attributed to the widespread fascination with the occult, the power of imagination over special effects, plus the home-movie realism.
		Actor Willis is as good as he often is in serious films, but the film belongs to young Haley Joel Osment, who is credible and moving as the haunted Cole.
	www.americancatholic.org /Messenger/Oct1999/Entertainment_Watch.asp (1480 words)

	The Hot Button by David Poland
		Runaway Bride should hold up pretty well, but that means a 30 percent fall to $24.6 million.
		Mystery Men is not the most perfect of films, but it has a lot of memorable stuff that could stick with audiences.
		One of the things that is most interesting to me is how the spread field of films has also thinned out the availability of screens.
	www.thehotbutton.com /boxoffice/boe_1999/990806.html (679 words)

	Review: Runaway Bride (1999)
		Garry Marshall returns as their director in Runaway Bride, a story that entertains and charms but falls just this side of the status of major romantic comedy.
		The film does a nice job with all this rising action, Ike's hunt for clues with which to assassinate Maggie's character, and Maggie's counteractions, subtly assisted by her friends.
		We saw the film in its second week of release, and it is better than the buzz said it would be.
	www.movie-page.com /reviews/r/runaway_bride.htm (1099 words)

	Runaway Bride
		Runaway Bride is not a sequel to Pretty Woman, even if the same actors have been rounded up for this latest Garry Marshall film.
		Runaway Bride is not a suspense thriller, so there is no reason for anyone to doubt the ending that will surely arrive.
		What differentiates this film from its predecessor is the magnetism exuded by Gere and his fun-loving persona.
	www.proudestmonkeys.com /cc/runawaybride.html (591 words)

	CNN - Review: Roberts runs away with hearts in 'Runaway Bride' - July 29, 1999
		That film co-starred Richard Gere and was directed by Garry Marshall.
		In "Runaway Bride," Roberts plays Maggie Carpenter, a woman living in a small town in Maryland.
		And in "Runaway Bride," Gere and Roberts have a plentiful supply.
	www.cnn.com /SHOWBIZ/Movies/9907/29/review.runawaybride/index.html (483 words)

	Biographies: Latter-day Saint and/or Utah Film Personalities: D
		The 17-minute film was described thus: "Once upon a time there was a boy who lost his lunch tin..." Producer of the award-winning BYU short student film "The Promethean" (2003).
		She appears on screen as an extra in the short film "Fedora" (1994), for which Michael Scott Van Wagenen was the associate producer.
		This film is described thus: "Quiet, listen to the beat, shut up and dance with my feet, get the beat..." Made the short (6 min.) narrative film "Invisible Perspective," which was also shown at the 2003 Utah Short Film and Video Festival.
	www.ldsfilm.com /bio/bioD.html (7434 words)

	What makes them run? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Now there is Jennifer Wilbanks, the runaway bride from Georgia who set off a huge search and rescue by disappearing days before her wedding day and pretending to have been kidnapped, only to reappear.
		She issued a statement blaming not cold feet for her actions but rather "a host of compelling issues, which seemed out of control," and which she did not identify.
		Tracy French, a wedding consultant in San Antonio, said she has had brides call and say, "Forget it" a week before the wedding, then take a break and come to their senses.
	www.ocregister.com /ocr/2005/05/12/sections/life/life/article_515814.php (1513 words)

	Witch Casts Spell On Bride - CBS News
		Runaway Bride took in $34.5 million followed by Blair Witch with $28.5 million, according to industry estimates Sunday.
		Runaway Bride was Roberts' top opening ever, easily beating her most recent two releases Notting Hill ($27.7 million) and Stepmom ($19.1 million).
		Crafty marketing of the film as a pseudo-documentary has had audiences debating whether the movie was fact or fiction.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/1999/08/02/entertainment/main56727.shtml (595 words)

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