The Bottom Line
- Gere and Roberts are teamed up again.
- Movie has a good message about the importance of knowing yourself.
- It has a touching proposal scene.
- Gere and Roberts are teamed up again.
- Predictable.
Description
- You need to love yourself before you can love someone else.
- The movie shows lots of pretty wedding dresses.
- It has an interesting marriage proposal.
Guide Review - Runaway Bride (1999)
Know Thy Self -- This is similar to an old classic, It Had to Be You (1947) with Ginger Rogers and Cornel Wilde.
When Ike Graham (Richard Gere) writes a column about Maggie Carpenter (Julia Roberts), she is outraged and he gets fired. Looking for a way to redeem his reputation, Graham travels to the small town where Carpenter lives to find out why she has bolted from three weddings. As he learns about her past, Maggie learns about herself.
That's where the message for engaged couples can be found in this movie. If a couple wants a long term, successful marriage, it is critical that they first know themselves.
I thought the proposal scenes (both the "what if" and the "real" proposals) were very touching. As Maggie says, "That works..."
