The Wedding Dress (2001 TV Movie)
8/10
Superior made-for-tv movie. Multiple love stories ensue as the dress winds its way on a somewhat fantastic voyage.
2 November 2001
The uniquely beautiful wedding dress of the title makes its way through multiple lives and romantic relationships, even though used only twice. The journey is a rather improbable closed loop, via chance and small-world-isn't-it connections of the disparate characters. An awfully lot of story is packed into 90 minutes or so, yet because of its serial nature is not hard to follow or decipher. Details will not be supplied here; the ending will not be surprising, only the means by which it is eventually reached. While unabashedly sentimental, this story never becomes sappy. O.K., maybe just a tad sappy near the end.

So much second, third, and fourth rate stuff is out there that it's a joy to see first-class movie story telling. Acting is superb throughout, with a large and rewarding cast.

(In case you've missed Neil Patrick Harris' latter-day works, as I have, our "Doogie Howser, M.D." is now indisputably an adult, fully normal, and still a good actor.)
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