Backbencher

Muriel's Wedding is a movie based on the life of a young woman (22) that kind of has a crappy home life with her parents. Muriel's hometown is in porpoise Pit Australia. It is about how this young woman has dreamed and is still dreaming of a wedding but her father and friends (or so called friends) tell her she will never amount to anything. Muriel is a very homely looking gal that doesn't dress right or wear make-up, and she doesn't do her hair right. Basically the beginning of the movie is when one of her friends gets married she catches the flowers which symbolizes that she will get married next. But her friends convince her to give it to one of their other friends because she will never get married. The story goes on that Muriel gets a job from one of her dads "girl" friends, which turns out to be his lover, at a make- up selling place. But Muriel decides to take the blank check that her mother writes and go on the vacation that her so called friends did not invite her on. She meets a great friend, Rhonda, and they end up moving to Sydney. They get an apartment together and Muriel finds a job. Muriel actually gets asked out on a date but the date turns bad when Rhonda falls and needs to be rushed to the emergency room. It turns out she has a brain tumor.
Muriel ends up going into a bridal shop and tries on dresses and decides to start a wedding album of all these dresses that she has tried on. Finally her dad track her down for basically stealing all of their money and tells her that she has to go back home to pay him back. So instead she goes through a dating catalogue so to speak and finds a guy that has to marry an Australian because he was from South Africa. Well not give the ending away she realizes that this set up marriage was not what she wanted and she didn't want the fake life anymore.
This movie was based in Australia so that is a plus for our class. There was some reference to the Australian government as Muriel's father at the beginning had run but in the middle of the movie turns out to actually be apart of the government. Also I noticed that the way they talked about their grades in school were different, they called them years, like year 11. I was a good comedy (for girls I think) but also made me cry, I don't know I must be emotional. But it did seem that the men of the movie were kind of mean, especially the father. The mother seemed to be dim-witted. There also seemed to be an old fashion sense that a young women should be married or is never going to amount to anything.
The critics seemed to like it. I didn't mind it but I felt that Whale Rider was much more interesting than this movie.