My Best Friend's Wedding is a 1997 American romantic comedy film directed by P. J. Hogan from a screenplay by Ronald Bass who also produced.

[2][3] Three weeks before her 28th birthday, New York City food critic Julianne "Jules" Potter receives a call from her lifelong friend Michael O'Neal, a Chicago sportswriter.

Michael tells her that in four days, he will marry the beautiful Kimmy Wallace, a college student eight years his junior whose father owns the Chicago White Sox.

George, who is gay, plays along but embarrasses Jules at lunch with the wedding party, singing "I Say a Little Prayer" as the whole restaurant joins in.

In addition, Christopher Masterson plays Michael's younger brother, Scotty, while Paul Giamatti briefly appears as a bellman who encounters Julianne in a hotel hallway.

The website's critical consensus reads, "Thanks to a charming performance from Julia Roberts and a subversive spin on the genre, My Best Friend's Wedding is a refreshingly entertaining romantic comedy.

The review also called the film "a perfect date movie" that "proves Roberts isn't as crap as we all thought she was.

"[13] Joanna Berry of Radio Times gave it four stars out of five, observing that this "sparkling comedy" proved to be a career-resurrecting film for Julia Roberts.

[14] Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film three out of four stars and said, "One of the pleasures of Ronald Bass' screenplay is the way it subverts the usual comic formulas that would fuel a plot like this.

"[15] CNN movie reviewer Carol Buckland said Roberts "lights up the screen", calling the film "fluffy fun".

[16] Andrew Johnston, writing in Time Out New York, observed, "The best scene occurs when Julianne's gay editor and confidant George (Everett) turns up in Chicago and poses as her fiancé, seizing control of the film for five delicious minutes.

At times like this, when the film spins into pop culture overdrive it stops being a star vehicle and flirts with genuine comic brilliance.

[50] However on June 30, 2021, it was announced that the production was canceled due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, with the producers revealing they hope to revisit the show at a later date.