The Wedding Planner
Hot and Bothered
Not Sorry Productions
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 November 2025
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Vanessa Zoltan and Hannah McGregor meet-up at an outdoor movie in Golden Gate Park to record this week’s episode of Hot and Bothered, all about The Wedding Planner.
This week we discuss the leading man's declaration of love, anxieties particular to the early 2000s, and Lauren Berlant's concept of Cruel Optimism. We finish the episode by calling Karen Dunak to talk to us about wedding ceremonies.
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| 0:00.0 | Today we continue our foray into the wedding industrial complex with the 2001 movie The Wedding Planner, |
| 0:09.5 | starring Jennifer Lopez and Maddie McConaughey. Of all the movies we've covered on Hot and Bothered, |
| 0:15.9 | this movie, by far, has the lowest scores on rotten tomatoes. It has a 17% from critics. However, |
| 0:27.9 | it does have a whopping 59% from audiences. And it opened number one in the box office, |
| 0:34.9 | and occasionally still gets written up in publications like |
| 0:38.1 | Vogue and The Guardian, with headlines like, hear me out, why the wedding planner isn't a bad |
| 0:45.4 | movie. The debatably bad movie is about Mary, played by J-Lo, a stuffy, highly organized, incredibly professional and successful. |
| 0:57.8 | Yes, wedding planner. |
| 0:59.8 | All right, places, everyone. |
| 1:03.0 | Todd, cut the feel lights. |
| 1:05.8 | And maestro on three. |
| 1:07.7 | Mary wants to make a partner at her wedding planner firm, and she knows how to do it. |
| 1:13.8 | A wealthy socialite is getting married. |
| 1:16.3 | Her family started selling gourmet sausages out of their small working class kitchen. |
| 1:20.1 | Yeah? |
| 1:20.4 | Now, today, five years later, they're one of the biggest internet food specialty companies in America. |
| 1:26.2 | If Mary lands and plans the wedding, she will be a partner at her firm. |
| 1:33.0 | Mary, in addition to being successful, is terminally, tragically, ironically single. |
| 1:39.8 | You know those who can't do teach, those who can't wed. |
| 1:43.4 | Her social life is entirely with her assistant at work, notably played by Judy Greer. |
| 1:50.5 | This is the third time we are seeing Judy Greer on this podcast, and we're only a little more |
| 1:56.6 | than a year in. |
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