Wedding Crashers is a 2005 American comedy film directed by David Dobkin, writt by Steve Faber and Bob Fisher, starring Ow Wilson, Vince Vaughn and Christopher Walk with Rachel McAdams, Isla Fisher, Bradley Cooper and Jane Seymour in supporting roles. The film follows two divorce mediators (Wilson and Vaughn) who crash weddings in an attempt to meet and seduce wom.
The film oped on July 15, 2005, through New Line Cinema to critical and commercial success, grossing $288.5 million worldwide on a $40 million budget. It was the 6th highest grossing film of 2005 in the United States and became the first R-rated comedy to make $200 million at the domestic box office. The success of the film has be credited with helping to revive the popularity of adult-orited, R-rated comedies.
John Beckwith and Jeremy Grey are Washington, D.C. divorce mediators who crash weddings under false idtities to meet and have sex with wom. At the d of a season of successful crashes, Jeremy takes John to the wedding of the eldest daughter of the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, William Cleary. Once inside, the pair set their sights on Cleary's other daughters, Gloria and Claire. During the reception, Jeremy has sex with Gloria on a nearby beach, who afterward tells him that she was a virgin. Gloria is possessive and quickly becomes obsessed with Jeremy, and Jeremy urges John to escape the reception with him. Meanwhile, John attempts to court Claire, the maid of honor, but is interrupted by her hotheaded boyfrid, Sack Lodge, who is unfaithful and disrespectful behind her back. Wh Gloria invites Jeremy and John to an extded weekd retreat at their family compound in Maryland, John overrules Jeremy and accepts in an effort to get closer to Claire.
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John and Jeremy become acquainted with the Clearys. The Secretary's wife Kathle comes on to John sexually while Gloria's brother, Todd, tries to seduce Jeremy during the night. Gloria continues to lavish unwanted sexual atttion on Jeremy, massaging his pis at a family dinner and later rapes him after tying his wrists and ankles to a bedframe. Sack also repeatedly injures Jeremy during a game of touch football. At dinner, John spikes Sack's wine with eye-drops to make him sick and get more time to connect with Claire.
John and Claire continue to bond the next day on a sailing trip. The suspicious Sack takes John and Jeremy on a hunting trip and pranks them, resulting in Jeremy getting shot in the buttocks. While Jeremy recovers, John and Claire go on a bike ride to a secluded beach. Claire finally admits she is not sure how she feels about Sack and ds up kissing John passionately. Meanwhile, Gloria tds to Jeremy's wounds and reveals to him that she lied about being a virgin wh they met. Jeremy realizes that he himself has be played and that he may be in love with Gloria.
While John is confessing his attraction to Claire, they are interrupted by Jeremy being chased out of the house. Sack, who had be investigating them, reveals John and Jeremy's real idtities to the family. Betrayed, Claire turns on John, and the Secretary tells them to leave.
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Over the following months, John attempts to reach Claire, but she refuses to see him. Expecting Jeremy to aid him, he attempts to sneak into her and Sack's gagemt party but is caught and beat by Sack. Confronting Jeremy about abandoning him, he learns that Jeremy has secretly continued his relationship with Gloria. Betrayed and brokhearted, John spirals into depression, crashes weddings alone, and becomes nihilistic and suicidal. Meanwhile, as Claire and Sack plan their wedding, Claire's doubts about her future with Sack grow. Jeremy proposes to Gloria and tries to ask John to be his best man, but John turns him away.
John visits Jeremy's former wedding crashing mtor, Chazz Reinhold, who convinces a reluctant John to crash a funeral with him. At the funeral, John reconsiders his belief in love and marriage after seeing the grieving widow. He rushes to Jeremy's wedding and joins the wedding mid-ceremony to Jeremy's delight. Claire is upset by his appearance, prompting John to express regret for his past behavior and profess his love for her in front of the congregation. Sack interrupts, but Claire finally tells him that she can not marry him. Sack tries to attack John, but Jeremy interves and knocks him out, and John and Claire kiss. After the wedding, the two couples drive away from the ceremony and discuss crashing another wedding together.
Both Arizona Sator and 2008 Republican presidtial nominee John McCain and Democratic strategist and CNN contributor James Carville make a brief cameo appearance, wh they are shown congratulating the secretary and his wife on their daughter's wedding.
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Andrew Panay, co-producer of Wedding Crashers, had the idea for the film based on his own experices of being excited to attd weddings in his 20s due to the prospect of meeting wom.
Panay th consulted the screwriting team of Steve Faber and Bob Fisher to come up with a story based on this premise. Much of the film was based upon Fisher's experices as an college intern in Washington DC, where he would make up fake backstories to crash lobbyist evts. Panay and Fisher's experices merged together to form the idea of a film in which the main characters crash weddings in order to meet and sleep with wom.
The screwriters had doubts that the premise could be sustained into a feature-lgth film, so they decided to add female love interests born from a political family, inspired by their dream of marrying a girl from the Knedy family wh they were young boys.
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It was also Panay's desire to explore male fridship through this crazy idea of crashing weddings as the emotional core of the movie.
In preparation for the film, the creators would crash political party platform committee meetings in order to delve into the psyche of the characters and what it means to crash a party.
On April 6, 2003, Variety reported that both Faber and Fisher had struck a mid-six figures deal with New Line Cinema to acquire the pitch for the film.
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David Dobkin signed to direct in 2004, seeing it as an opportunity to pair Vince Vaughn and Ow Wilson, who had previously worked with the director and gave him an Abbott and Costello impression wh they were at the premiere of his film Shanghai Knights.
According to Dobkin, the marketing departmt at New Line raised some concerns regarding the protagonists of the film, who were se as misogynists whose goal is to seduce wom at weddings and have sex with them.
They love weddings, authtically. They like the free food, they like the music and the bands, they like the dancing and the kids, they like talking to the grandparts. These guys make the weddings better. You would want them to crash your wedding. That's the distinction. It's not misogynistic and, in fact, what it's doing is replicating a real seduction, which is, I want to go to bed with you, but I have all these walls up. Can you make me laugh, make me attracted to you and find a way to make this really fun so we could get to the good part? That's a seduction. So, if I can seduce the audice — if I can make them laugh and be tertained and think these are okay guys — by the time they're dropping the girls in the bed, it's a magic trick. That was the whole idea.[11]
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Vaughn and Wilson were the first actors cast in the film. Dobkin cast Bradley Cooper without ev watching his audition tape as he was so impressed by the actor's test reading.
Isla Fisher, th a relatively unknown actress was cast as Gloria over Shannon Elizabeth and Anna Paquin. The casting of Secretary Cleary was a conttious issue betwe Dobkin and the studio executives, with Dobkin wanting to cast Christopher Walk but New Line Cinema wanting a more comedic actor such as Burt Reynolds instead of Walk who was viewed as a serious character actor.
Director David Dobkin originally considered the possibility of releasing a version of the film that was not R-rated in order to broad the film's commercial appeal, but the idea was abandoned after a consultant provided a long list of the many R-Rated elemts in the film, and Dobkin realized The two funniest sces in the movie would have had to go.
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Despite this New Line Cinema still did not want the film to be rated R but evtually conceded to keep the R rating after pressure from Dobkin.
The Ellborough Estate in Easton, MD is the setting of the Cleary family house, where a majority of the movie takes place.
Director David Dobkin said Ow Wilson was nervous for the sce where he grabs Jane Seymour's breast. He didn't really want to squeeze her breast wh she was telling him to. And I was like, 'Dude, you gotta do it, it doesn't look right, your hands look like crab claws.' And th he did it evtually and that sce ded up
