In thinking that Muriel's Wedding is the most heartbreaking film

[Needhelp101]

Watching it tonight. It's so bloody sad.
But equally funny.
Her poor mum.
She's a beautifully written character, very flawed, and Toni Collette plays her perfectly.

@HeyGirlHeyBoy

The final scene was fab also!

I think it is my best ending to any film ever.

I'd forgotten how fabulous the Waterloo scene was, and the glee on Muriel and Rhonda's faces while performing, knowing the absolute war between friends they helped ignite.

I watched it for free on Amazon Prime, by the way.

I like "I dont love you either, but I quite like having you around."

Haha I love "You can't come in here and threaten brides, I don't care how unfortunate you are"
"FUCK OFF"
😂

'Tim Simms, your fiancé, the one who wants to shoot you!'

The scene after her mum's funeral with David in the hotel room where she says 'I thought I was so different, but I'm not, I'm just the same as him', I take it she's referring to her selfish prick of a dad?

Yeah I always presume she means her dad.

A brilliant film! It's a classic, as far a I'm concerned. Sad, funny, touching, depressing and uplifting all at once. Muriel's family are all so downtrodden and the poor mam. I cried my eyes out when she died. And Muriel's horrible husband, marriage of convenience for him.

Yes, it’s the scene in the funeral where the speaker announces that her mother’s proudest moment was attending her daughter “Mariel’s” wedding and Muriel rushes out in shock. Afterwards she says “I thought I was a new person, but I’m not, I’m just like him”. I took that to mean that despite her new name, despite her new “success” and despite her new marriage, she was the same as her father because up until that moment it hadn’t occurred to her her mother’s whereabouts at the wedding and realised she her mother was as just as invisible to her as she was to her father.

And her mothers beautiful smile

Yeah her mum's face lit up when she smiled, the actress plays her so well.

@MareofBeasttown

Wonderful film and has aged so much better than so many romcoms where the heroine is treated like dirt by the hero because that's " romantic".

Agree. There's no hero in Muriel's Wedding; that's what makes this film endlessly intriguing. Muriel has to develop her strength and become a hero unto herself. It's a brilliant coming-of-age story that resonates with people born long after its release.