Runaway Bride Review

Messages: Encourages being aware of behavior that may hurt other people. Promotes the idea that individuality should strengthen a relationship; having "a mind of your own" is better than abandoning personal likes and opinions to make someone else happy.   

Role models: Main characters are hard workers, good friends, tolerant of others, and generous. They learn important lessons about love, honesty, and self-awareness. Small-town life is depicted as idyllic, safe, and community-oriented. Big-city life is characterized by noise, shallow relationships, ambition, and materialism.

Violence: One punch is thrown.

Sex: Plenty of romantic kisses. Also: some responsibly sexually active adults.

Language: Occasional swearing and insults: "virgin," "whore," "pain in the ass," "schmuck," "screwed-up," "a--hole," "hell," "one-eyed snake."

Consumerism: Some references in dialogue, others are visual: Budweiser, Michelob, USA TODAY, Busch, RCA, GQ Magazine, Redken, Pepsi, Fed-Ex, Everlast  boxing equipment, UTZ snacks, Kenra hair products, and some local New York shops and restaurants. 

Drinking, drugs and smoking: Social drinking in several settings: in a bar, restaurant, at a luau, at home, at a neighborhood baseball game. The father of the bride is revealed to be an alcoholic and shown with a drink in his hand on multiple occasions; at one time he is very drunk and needs his daughter's assistance before passing out in her car.