“Why can’t you be happy for me and then go home and talk about me behind my back like a normal person?”

Bridesmaids

About: Barely recovering from a business failure and a broken heart, Annie Walker (Wiig) needs to step up as maid-of-honor when her best friend Lillian (Rudolph) announces her engagement.  Thrown into planning with Lillian’s other (and mostly married) bridesmaids, Annie bristles at posh Helen’s (Byrne) expensive suggestions and naked attempts to buy Lillian’s trust.  Produced by Judd Apatow, the film revels in gross-out antics and awkward moments certain to terrify the wedding industry.  With a louche hook-up partner (Hamm) and a complicated cop (O’Dowd) also in the mix, Annie must break her jealous spiral and make her way to the Wilson Phillips’s scored finale.  

Director: Paul Feig

Year Released: 2011

Rating: R

Run time: 125 minutes

Cast: Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph, Rose Byrne, Melissa McCarthy, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Ellie Kemper, Chris O’Dowd, Rebel Wilson, Jon Hamm, and Jill Clayburgh 

Showing: November 4, 9pm