Film

Bachelorette

Name: Bachelorette
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Released: 2012
Cast: Kirsten Dunst, Rebel Wilson, Lizzy Caplan, Isla Fisher, James Marsden

Comedy
Light-hearted

A raunchy comedy about three former mean girls forced to be bridesmaids for the girl they bullied in school. It's a loose, profane hang with your worst friends—crude without reaching for shock value, funny because the characters are genuinely terrible and impossible to root for. For people who like their comedies messy and their heroines unheroic.

TMDb rating

2.7

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