Article: FILM REVIEW: 'Runaway Bride' fluffy, delving a tad too deeply into drama

Rachel Alberico
University Wire
08-05-1999
(Cavalier Daily) (U-WIRE) CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. -- There's something about Julia Roberts and weddings. In her new movie "Runaway Bride," Roberts is faced with yet another dilemma in which bridesmaids, bouquets and marches down the aisle serve as wallpaper for an entertaining yet predictable romantic comedy.

This time Roberts plays small town legend Maggie Carpenter, whose history as a pathological marriage dodger brings her widespread infamy in the form of a USA Today column.

Journalist Ike Graham, played by Richard Gere, is responsible for spreading the news of the Runaway Bride who, in his opinion, is one in a long list of malicious man eaters. ...

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