Muriel's Wedding

Muriel's Wedding (1994)

Timing: 1:46 (106 min)

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Actors and characters

Release date

1994-09-29

Country

Australia, France

Production

Miramax, Film Victoria, CiBy 2000, House & Moorhouse Films

Genre

Comedy, Drama, Romance

Budget

$9 000 000

Revenue

$57 419 639

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Director

P.J. Hogan

Actors

Toni Collette, Bill Hunter, Rachel Griffiths, Sophie Lee, Jeanie Drynan, Gennie Nevinson, Daniel Lapaine, Matt Day, Roz Hammond, Belinda Jarrett
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Scenario

P.J. Hogan

Producer

Lynda House, Jocelyn Moorhouse

Operator

Martin McGrath

Composer

Peter Best

Artist

Audition

Alison Barrett

Editing

Jill Bilcock
All team (46)

• Seven weeks before filming began, Toni Collette gained almost 20 kg for the role.
• Childhood photographs of the actors who played the family members were used as pictures in the family album.
• The film's screenwriter and director, P.J. Hogan, wanted to use music by the group ABBA in the film. He applied for permission, but was denied. Then Hogan decided to fly to Europe to appeal directly to the band members. He was granted permission, but on the condition that the group would receive their percentage. The film proved commercially successful and even led to the creation of an extremely successful Broadway musical, which was later adapted into Phyllida Lloyd's film “Mamma MIA!” (2008).
• In the character of Muriel, P.J. Hogan portrayed himself, and the inspiration for her actions came from Hogan's sister, who appropriated $15,000 of her father's capital and ran away to Sydney with a friend.
• Bill Hunter (1940-2011) starred in Stephan Elliott’s comedy “The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert” (1994) and in this film simultaneously. This required him to have different hairstyles and beard lengths (i.e., different wigs) and to be in different parts of the country. Both films became very popular with audiences in many different countries, and both used music by the group ABBA.