LOS ANGELES – Producer Judd Apatow (Knocked Up, The 40-Year-Old Virgin) and director Paul Feig (creator of television’s Freaks and Geeks) invite you to experience what happens when best friends forever meet the wildest Bridesmaids ever.
Kristen Wiig leads the cast as Annie, a maid of honor whose life unravels as she leads her closest friend, Lillian (Maya Rudolph), and a group of colorful bridesmaids— Helen (Rose Byrne), Rita (Wendi McLendon-Covey), Becca (Ellie Kemper) and Megan (Melissa McCarthy)—on a wild ride down the road to matrimony.
Annie’s life keeps coming up short. But when she discovers her lifetime best friend is engaged, she simply must serve as Lillian’s maid of honor. Though lovelorn and broke, Annie dives into all of the required rituals as she gets to know the other ladies in the bridal party, including one particular rival (Helen) who is perfectly poised to fulfill all the duties that Annie struggles through. As she brings Lillian’s bridesmaids along on an escalating series of disasters, Annie realizes the person who knows her the best has introduced her to four strangers who will shake up her life for good.
Longtime friends Wiig and Annie Mumolo met years ago at The Groundlings, the Los Angeles-based improv troupe where they wrote sketches with one another. Wiig recalls: “Annie and I went through the company around the same time, and we found each other to write together. We’ve always written so smoothly that there’s never any ego, and we’ve never fought over anything to be in or out of a script. It’s a great creative relationship where we respect each other. She’s one of my best friends.”
After her breakout cameo role in producer Apatow’s second film, Knocked Up, the popular Saturday Night Live actress was asked to try her hand at another side of filmmaking. Apatow appreciated her unique comedy style and wanted to see what else she was capable of onscreen. Wiig explains: “I was approached by Judd to write a script, so I called Annie and asked if she wanted to do it with me. She had this idea that she had talked about before, and said, ‘Let’s write it out.’”
Apatow discusses his involvement in the project: “Every time we do a movie, I always think, ‘Who stole some of their scenes? Could any of these people star in their own movie?’ After Knocked Up, I thought Kristen deserved to be the lead of a movie. I asked her if she had any ideas, and she came back to me with this idea about bridesmaids she’d worked on with her friend Annie Mumolo.”
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