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Nathan, who had been a regular customer at Annie's bakery, repeatedly encourages her to open a new bakery, although Annie is resistant to the idea. Meanwhile, Annie grows closer to Nathan Rhodes, an Irish-American Wisconsin State Patrol officer who let her off without a ticket for broken brake lights. Annie apologizes, but Lillian decides it's best if Helen takes over planning the bridal shower and wedding. The plane makes an emergency landing, and the party takes a bus back home. Annie accepts a sedative and liquor from Helen to calm her massive fear of flying and begins to hallucinate, suffering a paranoid breakdown that ends with her being apprehended by a U.S. Unable to afford a first-class ticket and too proud to allow Helen to pay, Annie books a ticket in economy class. While trying on gowns, the entire party – except Helen, who chose not to eat – is stricken with food poisoning and begins to vomit and experience uncontrollable diarrhea, with Lillian voiding her bowels in the middle of the street while wearing a wedding dress.Īnnie's suggestion for a bachelorette party at Lillian's parents' lake house is overruled in favor of a Las Vegas trip planned by Helen. Annie and Helen are instantly jealous of each other's friendship with Lillian and become increasingly competitive for her attention.Īnnie takes the bridal party to a Brazilian steak restaurant before visiting an upscale bridal shop, where Helen uses her influence to gain entry as Annie failed to make a reservation. When Lillian becomes engaged to her boyfriend Doug, she asks Annie to be her maid of honor.Īt the engagement party, Annie meets Lillian's bridesmaids: Rita, Lillian's long married and cynical cousin Becca, Lillian's naïve newlywed coworker Megan, Doug's raunchy and foul-mouthed but friendly sister and Helen, the wealthy and snobby trophy wife of Doug's boss.

The only positive presence in her life is her lifelong best friend, Lillian. Annie has a casual sexual relationship with the wealthy and self-absorbed Ted, who treats her like an object. Having lost her passion for baking, she works a stressful, underpaid job at a jewelry store and shares an apartment with weird British immigrant siblings Gil and Brynn. Her bakery failed due to the recession, wiping out her savings and causing her boyfriend to leave her. This made Bridesmaids the first Apatow-produced film to be nominated for an Academy Award.Īnnie Walker is a single, underachieving, down-on-her-luck woman in her mid-thirties living in Milwaukee. In 2012, the film was nominated for both the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Melissa McCarthy and Best Original Screenplay for Wiig and Mumolo. īridesmaids was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy. The film made $26 million in its opening weekend, eventually earning over $306 million worldwide, and surpassed Knocked Up to become the top-grossing Apatow production to date, and served as a touchstone for discussion about women in comedy. Upon its opening release in the United States and Canada on May 13, 2011, Bridesmaids was a critical and commercial success. Īctresses Mumolo and Wiig wrote the screenplay after the latter was cast in Apatow's 2007 comedy film Knocked Up, and budgeted at $32.5 million. The film also stars Rose Byrne, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Ellie Kemper, Melissa McCarthy, and Chris O'Dowd.

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The story centers on Annie (played by Wiig), who suffers a series of misfortunes after being asked to serve as maid of honor for her best friend Lillian ( Maya Rudolph). Bridesmaids is a 2011 American comedy film directed by Paul Feig, written by Annie Mumolo and Kristen Wiig, and produced by Judd Apatow, Barry Mendel, and Clayton Townsend.