Having already left three grooms at the altar, Maggie Carpenter is branded 'the runaway bride' by jaded city journalist Ike Graham who is recently fired by his editor/ex-wife for being too chauvinistic. Graham then relocates to her hometown and falls for his subject who suffers from an identity crisis as evidenced by her inability to determine how she likes her eggs.
5 August 1972, Buffalo, New York, USA
16 December 1967, Los Angeles, California, USA
13 November 1934, New York City, New York, USA
2 April 1961, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
11 October 1962, New York City, New York, USA
22 December 1936, New York City, New York, USA
17 January 1969, Los Angeles, California, USA
1 March 1949, Brooklyn, New York, USA
15 October 1953, Valley Stream, Long Island, New York, USA
16 June 1955, Carbondale, Illinois, USA
11 July 1956, Meridian, Mississippi, USA
28 October 1967, Smyrna, Georgia, USA
1971, Costa Mesa, California, USA
March 25, 2016
The pic is sweet, well-played and a bore.January 01, 2000
We can no longer buy Roberts in her tearful romantic - melancholy mode.January 01, 2000
Runaway Bride is an atrocious bit of by-the-numbers screen filler.January 01, 2000
A runaway bore!January 01, 2000
Safe and sane and bland.July 30, 2004
Runs a half-hour too long, and it drags through its multiple endings. Runaway Bride has plenty of delights, just a few too many.March 03, 2002
A satisfying romantic comedy that reveals that we can't open our hearts to love until we stop cheating on our true selves.December 28, 2010
Cute romantic comedy OK for most older kids.February 17, 2013
The predictability of this romantic comedy co-starring Julia Roberts and Richard Gere in no way detracts from its humorous charm.April 07, 2001
Remember the romantic sparks between Julia Roberts and Richard Gere in Pretty Woman? In Runaway Bride it's more like a damp fizzle.January 01, 2000
That charming thing only works if the story is good.January 01, 2000
It looks as if Julia and the horse were trying to get the hell away from the camera, and into a better movie.