Muriel's Wedding

Director: P. J. Hogan

1994 / 104min / 35mm

An ABBA-scored, pastel-hued, extravagantly emotional kitschy cult classic, Hogan’s upside-down Cinderella story features Toni Collette as the eponymous Muriel, a much-bullied young woman from the dingy, fictional Australian ’burg of Porpoise Spit who sets off with a purpose, alongside old classmate Rachel Griffiths, to take on big-city Sydney, start a new life, and get hitched—a journey that brings on tragicomic travails of its own. “It’s incredibly funny in parts, but it’s also surprisingly bleak, and it’s this combination that brings out the best in Collette, who juggles the tone perfectly.” —The Guardian

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