Bride Wars
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The Story
Best friends Liv (Kate Hudson) and Liv (Anne Hathaway) have dreamed very specifically of their perfect NYC wedding day (June at the Plaza) since they were little girls. Now all grown up and simultaneously engaged, a scheduling mix up leaves that both booked into the same date and time.
Neither tough-as-nails Liv or usually supportive Emma is willing to move her wedding. Instead the gloves come off as both find ways to creatively sabotage each other’s special day. Can they resolve the feud before the wedding bells ring?
Content Issues
Some swearing is heard, including several uses of God’s name. Lots of alcohol is consumed. Lots of cleavage is bared. A bachelorette party features male strippers, with Emma and Liv joining in a sexy dancing contest. And both ladies live (and sleep with) their guys well before considering marriage.
Worldview Talking Points
“Bride Wars” wants to be a wacky screwball comedy about the lengths to which wedding-crazed best friends will go to hurt each other, but it shines a light on modern ideas about marriage in the process.
Emma and Liv have placed a far higher priority on the wedding day than on the idea of marriage itself. After years of living with their perspective guys, they joke about being behind schedule on their first divorce. It’s clear that for them, marriage is an eventual formalization of relationship between two people who have proved their commitment by living together.
By the end, one bride gets around to asking herself whether she actually wants to be married to the guy she’s been with for a decade.
In the Worldview analysis on PlanetWisdom.com, we looked the ultimate wedding day between Christ and the church
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