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Bride
Wars (2009)
Emma and Liv are best
friends who have planned every detail of
their weddings since they first witnessed a
wedding at the Plaza Hotel. Therefore, they
both have made it lifetime priority to be
married in the same location.
The movie begins with the two women getting
engaged at the shared age of 26. They then
schedule their weddings with New York's most
famous wedding planner, but due to a
clerical error they're scheduled to have a
wedding on the same day. A week of passive
aggressive hostility passes before the two
women make it clear that neither will
compromise, especially after Liv tries to
take advantage of Emma's passive nature and
outrages Emma in the process. During this
time Emma's fiance, Fletcher, begins to show
signs of being controlling.
The women both attempt to sabotage the
other's wedding, including Liv making Emma's
tan turn bright orange, Emma tampering with
Liv's hair dye to make it turn Liv's hair
blue-white, Emma showing up to Liv's
bachelorette party to out-dance her, and
Emma secretly sending Liv chocolate and
lollies to make her not fit into her dress.
After the latter event Emma and her fiance
get into an argument regarding Emma's manic
behavior of sabotaging Liv's wedding and
their friendship.
Both brides-to-be are then shown to be in
the Plaza very shortly before they're due to
be wed, separately. Right before Liv leaves
to begin her march to the altar she tells
her assistant to play the footage from a CD
on a projection screen in Emma's part of the
plaza. The CD contains a montage of
memorable events in Emma's life, whereas the
CD Liv had already set up (sabotage) to play
contained a clip of Emma drunk and dancing
wildly on a previous spring break. Liv's
assistant drops the CD behind a flower vase
while muttering, "you'll thank me one day",
to himself.
Emma begins her walk down the aisle with the
best man but stops when the footage of her
spring break is shown. She loses her temper
completely and tackles Liv after sprinting
to the other section of the plaza. The two
brides wrestle in their dresses on the floor
while the rest of the room looks on, the
people closest to the brides having decided
it would be best to let the brides resolve
the problem. After tussling Emma and Liv lay
on the ground panting, and then make up
almost instantly. Emma stands up and walks
over to Fletcher who is upset at Emma's
behavior. Emma tells Fletcher she is not the
person he fell in love with and she is
unwilling to change to stay with him. Liv's
wedding resumes with Emma happily
participating, dancing with Nate, Liv's
brother.
The movie picks up a year later when Emma
and Liv meet up for "drinks", during which
it's revealed that Emma married Nate. Emma
and Liv also reveal to each other that
they're pregnant and that their due dates
are the same, March 3.
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