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Calling this film the female HANGOVER is easy. Wedding prep theme. Crude humor. Personality conflicts. Comedic mayhem. Both films have all these things in common. But the female part is key. It’s what really sets the films apart. Male friendships are vastly different than female friendships and this film knows it.

Annie (Kristen Wiig, TV’s SNL) is down on her luck. As she says she was the only person stupid enough to open a bakery during a recession. Following the failure of her business, she lost her longtime boyfriend and has now hooked up with the piggish Ted (Jon Hamm, TV’s MAD MEN), who just wants her as his sex buddy. She is so close to being forced to move back in with her recovering alcoholic mother (Jill Clayburgh, AN UNMARRIED WOMAN). Then her best friend Lillian (Maya Rudolph, AWAY WE GO) makes her the maid of honor in her wedding. This is the start of her descent to rock bottom.

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