Jane likes to help people. She is in a job where she anticipates her boss’s every wish, and she has 27 bridesmaid dresses in her closet, as testimonies to her life-long fascination with helping people to get married. Is she ever going to find her own happiness?
Most women have one or two bridesmaid dresses in their past, maybe even still in their closets. It seems to be a rite of passage when we are called on to help a best friend or a beloved relative through that special day and the memories of that service are precious to us.
For Jane, who has a job and should have a life of her own, this obsession with weddings almost borders on the psychotic, but for the fact that she is the eternal romantic. This is not the usual cute or funny story of missed cues or mixed up partners.
It is the cruel but very true story of how love just doesn’t always work out the way we think it should. But in addition to grim reality, this story tells us with any luck something better might arise from the ashes of failure.
Katherine Heigl takes a risk with this role and is great as Jane. She downplays her natural beauty and makes us believe that she is the all-knowing assistant in her boss’s (Edward Burns) life, while her head is living in a fantasy world of weddings. We learn to appreciate the pace of life Jane leads.
In one evening she is frantically running between two ceremonies, changing clothes in the cab, just so that she can be there for each bride. At one of the ceremonies, she is noticed by Kevin Doyle (James Marsden) who is also connected with weddings.
He is the “Commitments” writer for the newspaper, and Jane actually admires this writer’s work, but does not know that Kevin is the same person. In their subsequent encounters she finds him annoying rather than interesting.
Enter Jane’s gorgeous model sister, who immediately steals the boss’s attention and affection through less than honorable means. Will our Jane help herself right out of the picture, or will she finally stand up and say enough?
27 Dresses is presented on single disc in widescreen format. The feature running time is 111 minutes, and is available in both English and Spanish subtitles. It has been given a PG-13 rating, but I think pre-teens could watch it with no problem.
Special features are a fun collection, The Wedding Party, You’ll Never Wear That Again, Jane’s World, The Running of the Brides, Deleted Scenes and trailers. Included is Inside Look with Cameron Diaz and Ashton Kutchner for What Happens in Vegas.
27 Dresses is now available at Amazon . As of yet, there is not a release date for the UK. Visit the DVD database for more information.
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