Wedding Crashers
Comedy, Romance
New Line Home Entertainment  (2005) 119 mins Not Rated

7.2 (73,707 votes)
Hide Your Bridesmaids.

Crash the hottest party of the year! This "bust-a-gut, roll-in-the-aisle" (Maxim) comedy is the one event you can't pass up!

Guided by a set of "wedding crashing rules," John Beckwith (Owen Wilson) and Jeremy Grey (Vince Vaughn) can charm their way into any wedding...and into the hearts of every bridesmaid. But at the biggest nuptials of the year, John breaks the rules and falls for the daughter (Rachel McAdams) of the US Secretary of Treasury (Christopher Walken), and Jeremy is left at the mercy of her "stage-five-clinger" sister (Isla Fisher). Being there for his buddy, Jeremy follows John to the family's huge estate for a weekend that may even be too wild for these professional party guys....

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Cast and Crew
Owen Wilson  ......  John Beckwith
Vince Vaughn  ......  Jeremy Grey
Christopher Walken  ......  Secretary William Cleary
Rachel McAdams  ......  Claire Cleary
Isla Fisher  ......  Gloria Cleary
Jane Seymour  ......  Kathleen Cleary
Director  .....  David Dobkin
Producer  .....  Peter Abrams; Robert L. Levy
Writer  .....  Steve Faber; Bob Fisher
Notes
Goofs:
Continuity: The scene in the church during Jeremy's wedding when John is stating his love for Claire, Jeremy's hands alternate from holding his hands together to holding Gloria's hands. (more)

Trivia:
When Jeremy first pitches to John the idea of crashing the wedding of Secretary Cleary's daughter Christina, Jeremy hands John a section of a newspaper that carries the wedding announcement. It bears a photo of the bride and groom and a photo of Secretary Cleary accompanied by multi-column article. Dummy text of this kind is notoriously uninteresting for prop makers to write, and most of the fruits of their labors never appears on camera. As a result, prop makers sometimes include obviously bogus or even intentionally humorous text for the amusement of the crew and the observant viewer, and that has of course not undergone the rigorous typographical and grammatical editing processes common to newspaper articles. Here, though the announcement begins conventionally enough, by the point in the article that appears to the left of Christopher Walken's photo, the text reads: "The Cleary's are the center of the political scene these days with the potential candidacy of William for the president of the United States. (more)

Filming Locations:
Assateague Island National Seashore, Maryland, USA (more)

Quotes:
[first lines]
Mr. Kroeger: I don't have custody of the kids.
Mrs. Kroeger: You know what?
Mr. Kroeger: I don't get custody.
Mrs. Kroeger: It is an insane pathetic joke, what I've had to go through.
Mr. Kroeger: Right now, right now, she doesn't know where the kids are, do you?
Mrs. Kroeger: Do not talk about me as a mother.
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Awards:
9 wins & 8 nominations (more)