Welcome to Toni Collette Online, an unofficial information resource on the Australian act-ress and singer, best known from "Muriel's Wedding", "The Sixth Sense" and "Little Miss Sunshine". This site offers all essential info on her life and career with a comprehensive archive of press articles, news, images and video clips. Enjoy your stay!


 MURIEL'S WEDDING

1994 | Directed by P.J. Hogan

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. Slight problem, Muriel has never had a date. Then she steals some money to go on a tropical vacation, meets a wacky friend, changes her name to Mariel, and turns her world upside down.


CAST & CHARACTERS

Toni Collette

Bill Hunter

Rachel Griffiths

Matt Day

Daniel Lapaine

... Muriel Heslop

... Bill Heslop

... Rhonda Epinstalk

... Brice Nobes

... David Van Arkle


IMAGE LIBRARY



  PRODUCTION STILLS

  SCREENCAPS

  BEHIND THE SCENES

  ON-SET INTERVIEW CAPTURES

  MAKING OF CAPTURES

TRIVIA FACTS

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.

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.


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    DVD (REGION 1)

    Features: AbbA Music Video
    Video: Widescreen, Color
    Languages: English (Dolby)
    BUY DVD AT AMAZON.COM    		 DVD Release: May 18, 1999
    Nr of Discs: 1
    Distributor: Miramax
    ASIN: 0788814958
    DVD (REGION 2)

    Extras: none
    Video: Fullscreen, Color
    Languages: English (Dolby)
    BUY DVD AT AMAZON UK    		 DVD Release: February 12 2001
    Nr of Discs: 1
    Distributor: -
    ASIN: B00004CXPV
    DVD (REGION 4)

    Extras: Making Of, Interviews
    Video: Widescreen, Color
    Languages: English (Dolby)
    BUY DVD EZYDVD.COM.AU    		 DVD Release: unknown
    Nr of Discs: 1
    Distributor: Roadshow
    ASIN: -