She then travels to Helen's home in Chicago for the extravagant bridal shower, which is Parisian-themed - an idea of Annie's that Helen had previously rejected. After a romantic night together, Nathan surprises her with baking supplies, but Annie is annoyed and leaves.Īnnie is fired from the jewelry store for having a profanity-laden argument with a teenage customer and is then kicked out by her roommates, forcing her to move in with her mother.
Nathan, who had been a customer at Annie's bakery, repeatedly encourages her to open a new bakery. Annie apologizes, but Lillian decides it's best if Helen takes over planning the bridal shower and wedding.Īnnie grows close with Nathan Rhodes, an Irish-American Wisconsin State Patrol officer who lets her off without a ticket for broken tail lights. 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 she begins to hallucinate, ending in a paranoid outburst leading to 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 – begins vomiting and experiencing uncontrollable diarrhea from food poisoning, 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 soon jealous of each other's friendship with Lillian, and the two become increasingly competitive.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: Lillian's long-married and cynical cousin Rita Lillian's naïve newlywed coworker Becca Doug's blunt, foul-mouthed but friendly sister Megan and the wealthy and snobby Helen, Doug's boss' trophy wife. 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, but hopes for something more from him. Having lost her passion, she works at a jewelry store and shares an apartment with eccentric British immigrant siblings Gil and Brynn. Her bakery failed due to the recession, wiping out her savings, and her boyfriend left her thereafter.
This made Bridesmaids the first Apatow-produced film to be nominated for an Academy Award.Īnnie Walker is a single 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 $288 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. Rose Byrne, Melissa McCarthy, Ellie Kemper, and Wendi McLendon-Covey co-star as Lillian's bridesmaids, with Chris O'Dowd, Rebel Wilson, Matt Lucas, Michael Hitchcock, Jon Hamm, Franklyn Ajaye, and Jill Clayburgh, in her final film appearance, in supporting roles.
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The plot centers on Annie (Wiig), who suffers a series of misfortunes after being asked to serve as maid of honor for her best friend, Lillian, played by 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.
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