27 Dresses

For those who have not watched the movie “27 Dresses”, do go catch it! I really enjoyed the movie and I like the plot and the great chemistry between the 2 main characters Jane and Kevin. It is only two months into 2008 and i feel as if this is the best romance movie for 2008 :> 27 Dresses is a 2008 romantic comedy film directed by Anne Fletcher and written by Aline Brosh McKenna. The film stars Katherine Heigl as Jane and James Marsden as Kevin. The movie focuses on Jane, an idealistic, romantic and completely selfless woman...a perennial bridal attendant whose own happy ending is nowhere in sight. She has been a bridesmaid for twenty-seven weddings. But when younger sister Tess captures the heart of Jane's boss - with whom she is secretly in love - Jane begins to re-examine her "always-a-bridesmaid..." lifestyle. I also enjoy watching how she and Kevin slowly start to develop feelings for each other and appreciate each other.

Heigl dominates the movie in the role of a saintly Jane, who despite her good looks and smarts is always looking out for her friends while ignoring her own needs. In short, she has an address book filled with dates—not with her own boyfriends but with her appointments serving as bridesmaids to her many friends, twenty-seven in all. She has actually kept all the gowns she has worn to their weddings, from Japanese kimonos to cowgirl outfit to sharp business suit. Jane has always been good at taking care of others, but not so much in looking after herself.
Jane has nursed a secret crush on her boss, George (Edward Burns) for a long time but does not have the courage to confess her love for him. When George falls in love at first sight with Jane’s younger sister Tess (Malin Akerman), Jane pretends to be happy for them although her heart is bleeding inside. Her very belief in fairy tale weddings and love forever is challenged by a cynical journalist, Kevin, who like a twenty-first century Marxist lashes out at the folly of spending lavishly on a five-hour ceremony in which a man and a woman pretend to be royalty in a country that has long ago renounced titles of nobility.

Much of the humour of 27 Dresses comes from Jane’s frantic taxi rides from one ceremony to another. One memorable evening, Jane manages to shuttle between wedding receptions in Manhattan and Brooklyn, a feat witnessed by Kevin (James Marsden), a newspaper reporter who realizes that a story about this wedding junkie is his ticket off the newspaper's bridal beat. Though she attended, and fell in love with, her first ceremony at the age of eight, she went into high gear in her late twenties and changing dresses in the back seat of a taxi while cajoling the driver not to look in his rear-view mirror lest he lost his tip.