The Object of My Affection
Why this pick
Like My Best Friend’s Wedding, it turns romantic longing into a messy friendship test, balancing sharp comic discomfort with genuine affection rather than an easy fairy-tale route.
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IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
Why this pick
Like My Best Friend’s Wedding, it turns romantic longing into a messy friendship test, balancing sharp comic discomfort with genuine affection rather than an easy fairy-tale route.
Why this pick
Its central attraction is the same morally awkward pull: a long-held love resurfaces just as a wedding approaches, with friendship loyalties driving the tension.
Why this pick
A buoyant wedding-set romantic comedy with sincere emotional stakes beneath its big comic set pieces, and a similarly irresistible late-film momentum.
Why this pick
For the glossy 1990s comic energy and devoted friendship at the heart of My Best Friend’s Wedding, this delivers a warmer, delightfully absurd best-friends perspective.
Why this pick
It shares the wedding-day disruption and emotional conflict between obligation and an unexpected connection, handled with warmth, wit, and an optimistic romantic-comedy sensibility.
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01 / THE STORY
Julianne Potter (Julia Roberts), a 27-year-old New York City restaurant critic, receives a call from her lifelong friend Michael O'Neal (Dermot Mulroney). In college, the two made an agreement that if neither of them were married by the time they turned 28, they would marry each other. Three weeks before her 28th birthday, Michael tells her that in four days, he will marry Kimmy Wallace (Cameron Diaz), a 20-year-old University of Chicago student from a Upper class family.
02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
