Wedding Crashers

Intro

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• twentysomething
• hit
• laundromat
• pick-up joint

• crashing
• estate
• divorce
• hilarious

• particular

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In America it’s common knowledge that one of the best places to meet single women is at a wedding. In the movie Wedding Crashers, John Beckwith (Owen Wilson) and Jeremy Grey (Vince Vaughn) are divorce lawyers who spend their weekends crashing weddings. When John falls in love with a young girl (Claire Cleary) he meets at a wedding, he and Jeremy join the girl for a wild weekend at her family’s estate.

Dialog

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Dave

Derek

Dave:  Derek, do you like Vince Vaughn?

Derek:  Um, yeah. He’s a pretty good actor.

Dave:  Yeah. He and Owen Wilson, they had a movie out this summer called Wedding Crashers.

Derek:  Oh yeah, I heard about that. I know a lot of people who have been talking about that movie.

Dave:  Yeah, have you seen it?

Derek:  Ah, no I haven’t yet. Everybody recommends it.

Dave:  Yeah, I recommend it. It’s a hilarious movie.

Derek:  Yeah, what…what’s it about, mostly?

Dave:  Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson play divorce lawyers.

Derek:  Ah.

Dave:  And what they do is, they go around crashing weddings over the summertime. Because, what’s the best place to meet a single woman?

Derek:  Well, that would be at a wedding.

Dave:  It is – at a wedding. I don’t know why that is. But in the movie, they go to weddings and they meet single women. Then, one particular wedding Owen Wilson meets a young girl, falls in love; Vince Vaughn meets a young girl who falls in love with him. What happens is pretty hilarious.

Derek:  That sounds like it might be pretty entertaining.

 

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