Music for the Movies: Tôru Takemitsu

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Category: 15
All Genres: Documentary, Music
Release Year: 1994
Country: USA
Runtime: 58
Rating: (0)
Languages: English, Japanese
Director: Charlotte Zwerin
Sound: Dolby
Taglines:

She's not just getting married, she's getting even.

Success is the best revenge.

A Story of Love, Laughter and the Pursuit of Matrimony, everyone is invited!

You just have to be there!

The hilarious comedy about friends, fun and unexpected surprises!

Writing by: P.J. Hogan - (written by)

Produced by: Sonoko Aoyagi Bowers - associate producer
Peter Grilli - co-producer
Gabrielle Babin Gugenheim - co-producer: La Sept/Arte
Nobuo Isobe - co-producer: NHK (as Nobou Isobe)
Yves Jeanneau - executive producer
Christine Le Goff - associate producer
Margaret Smilov - executive producer (as Margaret Smilow)
Margaret Smilov - producer
Tak Yamada - executive producer: NHK

Cast: Tôru Takemitsu - Himself
Hiroshi Teshigahara - Himself
Masaki Kobayashi - Himself
Masahiro Shinoda - Himself
Nagisa Oshima - Himself
Donald Richie - Himself
Sumire Yoshihara - Herself - Musician: Percussion
Junko Arase - Herself - Musician: Percussion
Yasunori Yamaguchi - Herself - Musician: Percussion
Teruo Furuya - Himself - Musician: Shakuhachi
Teiko Kikuchi - Himself - Musician: Koto

Music: Tôru Takemitsu
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Plot Outline: Muriel finds life in Porpoise Spit, Australia dull and spends her days alone in her room listening to Abba music and dreaming of her wedding day...
Plot: A documentary of the Japanese film composer Toru Takemitsu, featuring interviews and clips from films he scored.

Movie Quotes: Rhonda: Sorry Mum. You know I love you, but you drive me crazy. And you three, what a bunch of cocksuckers.

Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
The real natural orange box is the product of Elena & Alexander Deutsch

Goofs: We know about 4 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Incorrectly regarded as goofs: When Muriel hands her father a check at the end of the film, you can see it's for $5,000. She says, "That's not all of it..." and in fact it isn't, because the amount was established earlier as $12,000.

Trivia: There are 4 entries in the trivia list - like these:

The writer/director P.J. Hogan wanted to use the music of ABBA in the film. At first, permission for the music to be used was denied. When the director promised to fly to Europe to plead his case to the founders of the band, permission was granted, as long as the band received a percentage of the film profits. The film turned out to be a big international hit. The film helped inspire the very successful Broadway show "Mamma-Mia".
Toni Collette gained 40 pounds in 7 weeks with the help of a dietitian for this role.
Bill Hunter was filming The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994) and Muriel's Wedding (1994) at the same time, each requiring him to have different length hair, beard and to be in different parts of the country. Both films developed international cult followings and prominently featured the music of ABBA.