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Oct 13, 2015 · Muriel loves ABBA, and I love ABBA. So my producer, being very smart, bought the ticket but sent a photocopy of it to Benny and Bjorn. And the day before I was going to get on the...
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She spends her time listening to ABBA songs and daydreaming of a glamorous wedding to get her away from the dead-end beach town of Porpoise Spit and Bill, her domineering father and corrupt politician who constantly belittles his whole family. Muriel attends the wedding of Tania and Chook, during which she sees him and Nicole secretly having sex.
Sep 29, 2024 · ‘You’re terrible, Muriel’: How we fell in love with Muriel’s Wedding and its flawed, brilliant heroine. It made a star out of Toni Collette and is one of the few films to have an...
Mar 18, 2020 · Her politician father (Bill Spencer) bullies his family and is especially cruel to Muriel. All the ABBA-obsessed Muriel wants to do is get married.
- Muriel Wants to Be Married
- Muriel Meets Rhonda
- Muriel and Rhonda Take Sydney by Storm
- A Fractured Friendship and A Redemption
Muriel Heslop is a high school dropout living in the seaside village of Porpoise Spit on the Gold Coast. When not getting arrested for shoplifting or being ostracized by the "cool" girls in town, she spends her days listening to ABBA songs and fantasizing about the two things she wants in life - a fabulous wedding dress and a husband, in that order...
When Muriel embezzles money from the makeup sales business owned by her father's mistress, she high-tails it to Hibiscus Island, where she intends to ingratiate herself with the popular girls' clique from Porpoise Spit who are enjoying a holiday there together. Not surprisingly, the mean girls shun her, leaving Muriel as alone on vacation as she is...
And fly she does. Before the Porpoise Spit police can get to her for that little embezzlement issue, Muriel takes off and joins Rhonda in Sydney. Energized and renewed, she even decides to change her name to "Mariel." Her newfound self-esteem attracts the attention of a shy customer at the video store where she works, and while flattered by his att...
Swept up in the pageantry of her marriage to a famous Olympian and all the publicity and fame that comes with it, Muriel abandons Rhonda. Before heading back to Porpoise Spit to be cared for by her mother, Rhonda tells Muriel, "You gave up on me. I needed help. I needed a friend." This is a sobering moment for Muriel because she finally sees how sh...
Mar 10, 2021 · In sharing a love for ABBA, as Muriel and Rhonda lay under the stars and hum the lyrics to “Fernando,” we see Muriel in a light that she isn’t seen in prior; happy, with the strength and autonomy to be vulnerable on her own terms.
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Oct 2, 2019 · Muriel’s Wedding was one of the first real Aussie representations on screen in the “ THAT’s a knife ” era of Crocodile Dundee, while simultaneously encouraging a generation of Australian middle-class mothers to sing ABBA, out of tune, drunk at Christmas.
