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...RUNAWAY BRIDE...
...Days (November 1999) Arnold Schwarzenegger tries to save New York City when Satan arrives in search of a bride...
...Never has a--let's be honest--weird movie budgeted at a ludicrously low $35,000 stormed both the box office and the national pop consciousness. In its first week of wide release, on 1,101 screens, it earned $50 million--more than the Julia Roberts comedy hit Runaway Bride, which played in nearly three times as many venues. It is likely to have the highest percentage of profit in film history. Its astounding success has made indie-film heroes of its directors, Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez. And the marketers at Artisan Entertainment, who built fervid want...
...does. But you can guess who the (temporary) victim is this time, can't you? And maybe you can guess--this question is a little harder--why the bride keeps running away. She renounces her needs in order to fit her current man's ideal. The script by Josann McGibbon and Sara Parriott makes these jilted guys plausibly awful, so we agree with Maggie's decisions to dump them...
Sure. Especially since they are the best-looking people on display in Runaway Bride, a movie that takes its good-natured time explaining Maggie's curious behavior and balancing it against Ike's less obvious failures (he has an intimacy problem, naturally). That time is for the most part cheerfully spent, however, as he arrives in town hoping to witness her bolt from the altar for a fourth time...