+ 2nd Worst Movie of the Year
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| Andrew Rannells (Girls (2012-17)) is the stripper who delights the girls here on a poster for Leslye Headland's Bachelorette |
A high school clique of four girls gather in New York as grown women, when one of them is getting married, but the coming bride is soon made ill by her dishonest friends, who also accidentally ruin her dress.
Bachelorette is written and directed by debuting Leslye Headland (Sleeping with Other People (2015)), adapting her own same-titled play. Headland wants it to be the youth comedy of a new era, but its overstrung characters are about as sympathetic as hemorrhoids, - but what is worse is that they are not funny, either.
Self-centered they swish around a plot that consists of the torn, abused dress with lavish doses of sex talk and drugs, apparently following the credo that anything that is raunchy in any way is also funny.
That credo is put to shame here, as Bachelorette effectively disproves it. The film is downright agonizing to sit through. What Kirsten Dunst (Marie Antoinette (2006)) is doing in this solid turkey, so far beneath her talent, is one of the despairing questions it leaves in its wake.
The best thing to be noted about Bachelorette is its relatively short length.
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Watch a trailer for the film here
Cost: 3 mil. $
Box office: 11.9 mil. $
= Big hit
[Bachelorette premiered 23 January (Sundance) and runs 87 minutes. Shooting took place in New York on an admirably, relatively low budget. The film opened #35 to a 181k $ first weekend in 47 theaters, its peak position (topping in 60 theaters though) in North America, where it grossed tiny 447k $ (3.8 % of the total gross). The 3 biggest markets were Australia (Rebel Wilson's home country) with 2.7 mil. $ (22.7 %), Italy with 2.2 mil. $ (18.5 %) and France with 1.1 mil. $ (9.2 %). The film made an additional 8 mil. $ on VoD (probably solely from North America, making up for the weak theatrical performance there), which, if added to the theatrical gross, would make change the film's status to 'huge hit'. Headland followed it up with Sleeping with Other People (2015). Bachelorette is rotten at 56 % with a 5.5 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]
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