The Wedding Planner

Infobox Film
name = The Wedding planner


caption = Theatrical release poster
director = Adam Shankman
producer =
writer = Michael Ellis & Pamela Falk
starring = Jennifer Lopez
Matthew McConaughey
music = Mervyn Warren
Sander Selover
cinematography = Julio Macat
editing = Lisa Zeno Churgin
distributor = Columbia Pictures
released = January 26, 2001
runtime = 103 minutes
country = USA
language = English
Italian
budget =
imdb_id = 0209475

The Wedding Planner is a 2001 romantic comedy starring Jennifer Lopez and Matthew McConaughey.

Plot

Lopez plays a San Francisco wedding planner, Maria 'Mary' Fiore. She is too consumed with planning others' events to worry about her own personal life until she is saved from a nasty accident by Dr. Steve Edison (McConaughey).

Mary and Steve spend a wonderful evening in the park, watching an old movie (Two Tickets To Broadway), dancing and nearly kissing before being interrupted by an untimely rain shower. After glowing to her friends that she had finally found a man that she likes, she soon learns that Edison is engaged to her biggest client Fran Donolly (Wilson).

After the revelation, Mary is reunited with a childhood friend Massimo (Chambers) who asks her to marry him; after a slight hesitation, Fiore uses a Scrabble board to spell "OK". Mary reaches the altar with Massimo, but their wedding is halted by her father who knows she is not truly in love with the groom-to-be. Meanwhile, Fran and Steve's wedding fails (due to their own doubts about marriage) and Steve rushes to city hall to try to stop Mary and Massimo's wedding himself. With help from Massimo, Steve finds Mary and asks her to dance at the park where they first met and fell in love.

Cast

* Jennifer Lopez: Maria 'Mary' Fiore
* Matthew McConaughey: Dr Steven James 'Steve/Eddie' Edison
* Bridgette Wilson: Francine 'Fran' Donolly
* Justin Chambers: Massimo
* Judy Greer: Penny
* Alex Rocco: Salvatore Fiore
* Lou Myers: Burt Weinberg
* Charles Kimbrough: Mr. Donolly
* Joanna Gleason: Mrs. Donolly
* J.R. Rose: The Speech Guy
* Kathy Najimy: Geri

Details

The original actors set to play Mary and Steve were Jennifer Love Hewitt and Brendan Fraser, respectively. Both eventually dropped out due to scheduling conflicts, leaving Lopez and McConaughey to be the eventual stars.

The movie debuted at number 1, making Lopez the first actress and singer to have a film (The Wedding Planner) and an album ("J. Lo") at number one in the same week.

Many of the scenes were shot in Golden Gate Park, specifically at the Music Concourse (between the old De Young Museum and the old California Academy of Sciences) and the Japanese Tea Garden.

The 2004 made-for-television movie I Do (But I Don't), starring Denise Richards and Dean Cain, has a similar plot: a complicated relationship between a wedding planner and a fireman who she thinks is engaged to her client. The fireman ends up being the best man and the brother of the groom.

Box Office

The movie was released on January 26, 2001 debuting at number 1 at the box office with $13,510,293 on its first weekend. It grossed $60,400,856 domestically. Worldwide tally was $94,728,529.

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Box Office Leaders USA
before = Save the Last Dance
date = January 28
year = 2001
after = Valentine