The Bachelor (1999)

User Rating:

4.8/10   

Director:

Gary Sinyor

Writers (WGA):

Roi Cooper Megrue (play)
Jean C. Havez (1925 screenplay "Seven Chances") ...

Release Date:

5 November 1999 (USA)

Genre:

Romance | Comedy

Tagline:

One thousand brides. One hundred million dollars. Jimmie Shannon is about to discover the true value of love.

Plot:

A committment-phobic man goes in search of a bride including his fed up girlfriend, to inherit his grandfather's $100 million inheritance.

Plot Keywords:

Inheritance | Bachelor | Male Female Relationship | Love | Helicopter

Cast

Chris O'Donnell	...	Jimmie Shannon
Renée Zellweger	...	Anne Arden
Artie Lange	...	Marco
Edward Asner	...	Sid Gluckman
Hal Holbrook	...	Roy O'Dell
James Cromwell	...	The Priest
Marley Shelton	...	Natalie Arden
Peter Ustinov	...	Grandad James Shannon
Katharine Towne	...	Monique
Rebecca Cross	...	Stacey
Stacy Edwards	...	Zoe
Mariah Carey	...	Ilana
Sarah Silverman	...	Carolyn
Jennifer Esposito	...	Daphne
Brooke Shields	...	Buckley Hale-Windsor

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for language.

Runtime:

101 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English | Spanish

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS

Certification:

Australia:M (original rating) | Australia:PG (TV rating) | Canada:14A (Alberta) | Canada:G (Quebec) | Canada:PG (British Columbia/Manitoba/Nova Scotia/Ontario) | Malaysia:U | South Korea:12 | Argentina:Atp | Chile:TE | France:U | Germany:6 | Hong Kong:IIA | Iceland:L | Netherlands:AL | New Zealand:M | Peru:PT | Portugal:M/12 | Singapore:PG | Switzerland:7 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:7 (canton of Vaud) | UK:12 | USA:PG-13 (certificate #36793) | Philippines:PG-13 | Finland:S

Filming Locations:

Cook Ranch, Galisteo, New Mexico, USA

Company:

George Street Pictures

Trivia:

Several of the brides chasing the bachelor at the end of this movie are male extras in drag.

Goofs:

Continuity: Marco has a stain on his t-shirt when he's with Jimmie at the diner. When he hops into his car a few moments later, the stain is gone.

Quotes:

Preppy Bride: Thank God I'm bisexual

Movie Connections:

Spoofed in "Saturday Night Live: Al Gore/Phish (#28.8)" (2002)

Soundtrack:

Hernando's Hideaway

Reviewed By Matt Doolittle

"The Bachelor"1999

Starring: Chris O'Donnell, Renée Zellweger, James Cromwell, Hal Holbrook, and Brooke Shields

Directors: Buster Keatonand Gary Sinyor Running time: 101 minutes Rated PG-13 (for language and some sex-related material) 1/2* 2 out of 10

Reviewed By Matt Doolittle

The Bachelor was a cheap imitation of a comedy that was ongoing and boring. It wasn't boring in a sense of nothing there; it was boring in a sense that you didn't know what was going on. The characters were never introduced and the plot was very uneasy because they weren't introduced.

About the plot, it was uneasy because the film had no emotion. The actors/actresses said their lines with no charisma. They basically had a script and read it. In a good movie you can't do that, if you want viewers to like it they have to feel it. I think "Buckley" (played by Brook Shields) was a very good character. It's sad when the supporting roles are played better than the main ones. As a viewer I didn't know the names of characters and I didn't care enough to know. This whole movie is supposed to take place in two days but within two days Anne goes to Athens and back then goes away again with her sister. He asks 16 people to marry him in a matter of a couple hours. Mariah Carey really messed up upon taking the role of one of the woman. She had no personality or a sense of character at all.