Mother of the Bride is a 2024 American romantic comedy film directed by Mark Waters starring Brooke Shields.
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- Mother of the Bride is a 2024 American romantic comedy.
- After a year abroad in London, Emma returns home and stuns her mother Lana with the news that she’s getting married in a month at a resort in Phuket, Thailand. Things get worse when Lana discovers that the husband-to-be is the son of the man who broke her heart years earlier.
- The film was directed by Mark Waters.
- It was written by Robin Bernheim.
- It stars Brooke Shields, Miranda Cosgrove, Sean Teale, Chad Michael Murray, Rachael Harris, and Benjamin Bratt.
- The film was released on Netflix on May 9, 2024.
- This is the 2nd time Chad Micheal Murray plays a character called Lucas after One Tree Hill.
- This marks Mark Waters and Chad Michael Murray’s 2nd collaboration after Freaky Friday.
- In February 2023, Netflix announced a romantic comedy film.
- It was written by Robin Bernheim and Mark Waters was about to direct it.
- In February 2023 the movie was in pre-production.
- Brooke Shields, Miranda Cosgrove, Benjamin Bratt, Chad Michael Murray, Rachael Harris, Sean Teale, Wilson Cruz, Michael McDonald, Tasneem Roc, and Dalip Sondhi was added to the cast.
- Principal photography began in April 2023 in Phuket, Thailand.
- Its running time was 90 minutes.
- On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 24% of 21 critics’ reviews are positive, with an average rating of 3.7/10.
- Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 38 out of 100, based on 8 critics, indicating “generally unfavorable” reviews.
- Benjamin Lee from The Guardian scored the film a two out of five, writing “It’s a slight cut above just how very bad these things can get, but not enough to edge it toward something that would deserve your full attention. So errand away, Mother of the Bride will be just fine playing in the background”.
- Jennifer Green reviewing for Common Sense Media gave the film a score of three out of five.
- Working with Shields was the culmination of a lifelong dream for Benjamin Bratt, who’s been a fan of hers for decades.
- Miranda Cosgrove has never played in a rom-com before.
