Friday, 14 November 2014

27 Dresses- A bridesmaid's fantasy

All weddings are the same. There's cake, dancing, good music, delicious food and amazing fun. But the best part about a wedding, for any girl, is dressing up for it. The dresses, the shoes, accessories and makeovers, all come in the "pre-wedding fun" for a bridesmaid. But this bridesmaid is a little different. She is the ultimate bridesmaid, the Maid of Honour, the one person who takes care of the bride right from her guest list to her wedding gown measurements. Jane Nichols' life is in and around weddings. She loves everything about them! I mean what's not to love when your friend is getting married and her life is just about to become bliss right? And if it's your sister's wedding, you need to be the captain of the ship, making sure every minute detail is in order, making sure her cake is perfect, her dress fits her perfectly. But a huge kink comes in the way which turns everything around. We'll come to that shortly.

Until then, Jane was having the time of her life, dodging between two weddings in one night! After both the weddings get over, she meets a writer, Kevin Doyle, and they share their perspectives of weddings. He's  more on the negative side while she's all for positive. They part ways as unlikely friends, but she leaves her diary in which all her wedding dates are written for the next six months, which is picked up by Kevin. He sees this as an opportunity to write something about her in his column in the newspaper in the wedding section (really, life is full of irony. A man who hates weddings writes wedding announcement columns).

Meanwhile, at work, Jane has always had a huge crush on her boss, George,(which she denies most of the time). When her sister, Tess seems interested in him, it really gives her a nasty shock. Things get wild between the sisters once Tess and George start dating. Jane almost loses it when she gets the news that the two lovebirds are getting married, but right then our good old writer, Kevin comes to the rescue! He annoys her with flowers and phone calls, desperate to meet her and finally she agrees. They meet and talk about how she feels being the maid of honour for her sister's wedding. What Jane doesn't know is that Kevin is actually writing an article about Jane and has taken her sister's wedding as a cover up.

So he comes over to interview her and sees a clost full of bridesmaid dresses. He forces Jane to wear each one of them and soon Jane sees 27 of her pictures staring at her right form the wedding section of the newspaper. She feels betrayed and upset that Kevin used her as an object, a theme for an article and leaves, never wanting to see him again. A big whole comes up on the wedding when Jane decides to reveal all the lies Tess told George to win him over. Her life turns into a big mess...
How she gets out of it, whether she gets out of it or not? It's all in the movie. This may be a one time watch movie, but it's worth watching.









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