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Lisa French, Professor & Dean, School of Media and Communication, RMIT University

‘We’re all Muriel’: why we still love Muriel’s Wedding, 30 years on

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P.J. Hogan’s classic Australian film Muriel’s Wedding is 30 and it plays as well today as it did when it had its world premiere. Muriel might have been “terrible” – but the film was a great success.

Australians love to laugh at themselves, and everyone loves an underdog. Muriel’s Wedding took more than A$15 million at the box office in Australia — making it one of the highest-grossing Australian feature films of all time.

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