27 dresses song bar7/30/2023 ![]() Jane, played by Katherine Heigl (my favorite role of hers after Izzie Stevens in “Grey’s Anatomy”) is seemingly in love with weddings and wedding planning, though she strangely does not work in the wedding industry. Let’s start with the boy-meets-girl part though. It also has plenty of light moments and laughs. It isn’t as heavy as all that sounds though. It touches on selflessness, and relationships between women, as well. The Movie also delves into tricky family dynamics such as sibling rivalry, the loss of a parent at a young age, and the challenges of being the oldest, and being the youngest. ![]() It has more storyline than just boy-meets-girl, though there is that. It is one of my favorite “Rom Coms” from the early aughts. It was directed by Anne Fletcher, and it was written by Aline Brosh McKenna. And she was right.27 Dresses was released in 2008. “She went on a crazy lobbying effort, calling the head of the studio, calling me 5,000 times, as if it was like the most important piece of legislation facing Congress, to stop us from changing the song. When writer Aline found out, she fought hard to keep it in. “We were actually investigating some other songs, including “Brown Sugar” by the Rolling Stones,” said producer Glickman. Apparently a few weeks before they started shooting, the director thought the famous Elton John song was too slow. The famous “Bennie and the Jets” scene almost didn’t happen. Yes, you’ve seen her as the side kick of the lead actress before in What Women Want, The Wedding Planner, and 13 Going on 30.ħ. Actress Judy Greer, who plays Jane’s best friend Casey, has played a similar BFF role in three other romantic comedies. “So we’d just add more flowers, more tulle, a hat.”Ħ. “No matter what the dress was, she still looked beautiful,” said Anne Fletcher, the movie’s director. ![]() She ended up picking 50 dresses to narrow down to 27. Catherine Thomas, the woman in charge of the film’s wardrobe, scoured eBay, thrift stores, and catalogs looking for ugly bridesmaid dresses for the movie. The costume designer said the hardest part of her job was finding 27 dresses that would look unflattering on Katherine Heigl. “There was a lightness to that set that I don’t always experience, which I think shines through in the movie and gives it a really supportive, happy atmosphere.”ĥ. “It was nice to be on set with so many women,” said actress Judy Greer. In a rare Hollywood instance, the writer, director, and star of the rom-com were all women. “I wanted her to end up on her own, hilariously enough,” McKenna said.Ĥ. The writer had no interest in giving Jane a traditional happy wedding. “But no matter where we went with the story, we knew it was an incredible commercial idea.”ģ. “At the beginning, we had aspirations of this is going to be the An Unmarried Woman of the new millennium, which was a classic female drama directed by Paul Mazursky,” said Glickman. Producer Jon Glickman says that the original pitch was only about 60% of what the end movie ended up being. The movie was supposed to be a completely different film. “What I loved about it wasn’t just that she was in these weddings, but that she was the person that would pick up everyone from the airport, dog-sit for people, and I was always very fascinated by it.”Ģ. To be ranked in the Top 4 of 12 different people when you’re still not out of your 20s is pretty impressive,” said McKenna, who also wrote The Devil Weras Prada screenplay, said in a recent interview. “ Kate is so unbelievably nice that at the time I did the movie she’d been in 12 weddings. ![]() ![]() Yes, 27 Dresses is partly lifted from screenwriter Aline Brosh McKenna’s friend Kate, whom she describes as a perpetual bridesmaid. (Remember the Gone With The Wind-themed wedding, anyone?) In honor of the film’s 10th anniversary, we share a little bit of trivia you might not know about this wedding film genre classic. The film, starring Katherine Heigl as a woman who has been a bridesmaid at 27 other weddings, yet never a bride, was a hit when it came out in 2007, and became a highly relatable movie for women who had suffered through similar indignities all in the name of keeping a bride happy on her big day. This year marks the 10th anniversary of the now classic romantic comedy, 27 Dresses. ![]()
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