Runaway Bride (1999)

Oh my God horrible. I put up with 20 minutes before I turned off because I felt so ill. Richard Gere reminds me of a short film I saw one time in the middle of the night, I'm not sure if I dreamt it. An Alsation dog was driving a taxi in New York, another Alsatian trying to go across the zebra crossing and the taxi Alsatian nearly hits the walking. The Alsatian on the zebra crossing turned around and shouted 'hey I'm walking here!'. I don't even know if Americans know what zebra crossings are.That's as far as I got. Horrible film, just awful.

Runaway Bride (1999): Dir: Garry Marshall / Cast: Richard Gere, Julia Roberts, Joan Cusack, Hector Elizondo, Rita Wilson: Second feature for Richard Gere and Julia Roberts with none of the charm of Pretty Woman. It regards both fear and tease in that these males cannot catch her but it reeks in stupidity. Plot regards a bride who flees weddings three times at the expense of bewildered grooms. Gere plays a journalist with a bad reputation that has him constantly assaulted with newspapers. He is out to do a story on Roberts who is engaged yet again. Interesting concept becomes pure formula with predictable developments directed by Garry Marshall who substitutes the charm of Pretty Woman for a performance by Roberts that is less than sympathetic. It is insulting because these grooms are valuable people too yet viewers are expected to pity this alter fleeing bimbo and laugh at the dumbfounded grooms. It comes off as sexist since if the roles were reversed, viewers may think differently. Gere is given little to work with and seems only there to uphold the second half that was famous for their earlier and better collaboration. Supporting work by Joan Cusack and Hector Elizondo is less than desirable due to that terrible cardboard writing. The film exists for its re-teaming of its stars whose earlier film is much better but personally the further you run away from this film the better. Score: 3 / 10

Despite me loving Julia Roberts and Richard Gere as actors, think the script is ridiculous.Reporters and journalists do not tell the truth one bit, they make their whole careers on lies, fabrications, sensationalism and fear stories and just ridiculous how they try to turn this on its head.In real life journalist offices, the more outrageous, juicy, hyped up and fabricated the story, the more you are praised and all journalists work to deadlines at the last minute.Whole story absurd and find it most shocking that two high profile great actors and great directors would choose to work on such a pile of crap script. Am astounded.

Nine years after their smash PRETTY WOMAN, director Garry Marshall reunited his stars, Julia Roberts and Richard Gere, in RUNAWAY BRIDE, a watchable 1999 romantic comedy which is more than anything, a reunion of the PRETTY WOMAN stars (including Marshall good luck charm Hector Elizondo) in a featherweight comedy that borrows liberally from more than half a dozen superior romantic comedies that I can think of, including PRETTY WOMAN. Roberts plays Maggie, a small town free spirit who has a reputation for planning large elaborate weddings and leaving the groom at the altar at the very last second. When Masggie gets engaged for the fourth time, word of her story reaches a big city newspaper writer (Gere) who decides to come to Maggie's intimate little hamlet to cover the wedding and well, you can guess the rest. The on screen charisma between Gere and Roberts is still there, but this time they have a rather limp screenplay to work with that doesn't really play to their strengths as farceurs. In addition to Elizondo, Joan Cusack does steal every scene she is in as Maggie's best friend and there are also effective turns from Paul Dooley as Maggie's dad and Christopher Meloni as fiancée #4. It's passable comic fare, but if you're looking for another PRETTY WOMAN, you will be disappointed.]