Never cross a bride on her wedding day… she'll take no prisoners. Drew Barrymore (Riding in Cars with Boys) stars with a young and talented cast featuring Dean Cain, Andy Dick, Sean Patrick Flanery, Mitchell Whitfield and Luke Wilson in a hilarious "action- comedy full of snappy dialogue and colorful characters" (Total Film) that puts a whole new spin on shotgun weddings!
Hope's (Barrymore) big mistake on her wedding day was sending the groomsmen to collect her jailbird fiance Jesse (Wilson) from prison. For on the way from the penitentiary, the best man, Billy (Flanery), decides to he needs a little cash infusion from the town bank… so he holds it up! But it's not long before all of the groomsmen are held up- when the cops surround the place! And since neither hell nor high water will stop Hope from having her day… she rushes in to join her fugitive wedding party, at the risk of spending her honeymoon- not to mention the rest of her life- behind bars.
(32 votes)
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Jesse (Wilson) is just released from jail and is on his way to church to marry his sweetheart (Barrymore), but along the way Billy (Flannery), one of his best men, needs to make a quick stop at the bank. Unbeknownst to Jesse, Billy is the notorious bank robber known as "Hamlet," named as such for spewing out Shakespearean quotes during his heists. The small-time robbery quickly transforms into a major fiasco leading to the lovebirds into exchanging their vows at the bank, and the FBI their witnesses! A funny love story with a criminal edge.
(32 votes)
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Tamra Davis' Best Men must have seemed a better idea on paper than it ends up being in practice, in spite of some snappy dialogue and good central performances. A group of male friends meet Jesse (Luke Wilson) out of prison to take him to his wedding to Hope (Drew Barrymore); along the way, their friend David pops into the bank for some money and turns out to be the Shakespeare-spouting bandit Hamlet. Suddenly all of them are his unwilling accessories in a hostage situation with David's sheriff father and murderous FBI men besieging them and a crowd cheering their every move.
Each of the young men has a trauma and it is not only David who gets a soliloquy: gay Green Beret Buzz (Dean Cain) has an extended period of bonding with one of the hostages, demented Vietnam vet Gonzo (Brad Dourif). The eventual action sequences are curiously perfunctory and uninteresting and the obsessive FBI man, Hoover, has little motivation. This is a likable film which goes nowhere, but has quite a lot of gentle charm along the way to its tragic ending.
On the DVD: the DVD is presented in a widescreen video aspect of 2.35:1 and has Dolby surround sound; the special features are a slightly self-congratulatory "making of" featurette and the film's theatrical trailer. --Roz Kaveney
(26 votes)
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