When ‘Muriel’s Wedding’ was released in 1995, it launched the careers of its stars Toni Collette and Rachel Griffiths. Collette played the zaftig, socially awkward Muriel Heslop, who lives in the quiet Gold Coast town of Porpoise Spit. All the ABBA-obsessed Muriel wants to do is get married.
She ends up embezzling money from her family and goes on a holiday where she meets fellow Porpoise Spit outcast Rhonda (Griffiths). The two end up in Sydney where Muriel changes her name, gets a job and sets out to find a husband. Here are it’s most quotable lines:
Tania: Muriel, you’re beautiful.
Tania: He says they’re not sleeping together. She only sucks him off.
Cheryl: Why?
Tania: Out of respect for me.
Nicole: Bitch.
Muriel: When I lived in Porpoise Spit, I used to sit in my room for hours and listen to abba songs. But since I’ve met you and moved to Sydney, I haven’t listened to one Abba song. That’s because my life is as good as an Abba song. It’s as good as Dancing Queen.
Muriel: He said if I ever left him, he would find out who I was living with and shoot them. Then, he’d shoot me, then himself.
Rhonda: Shit, he really loved you, didn’t he?
Victor Keinosuke: You do a lot for the people of this town, Bill.
Bill: Who told you that?
Victor Keinosuke: You did.
David: What kind of person marries someone they don’t know?
Muriel: You did.
David: I want to win. All my life I’ve wanted to win.
Muriel: Me too.
