Chris O'Donnell plays a twenty nine year old bachelor who is dating a girl named Ann. His grandfather, who is obsessed with carrying on the family name, makes a video will. In it, he states that his entire inheritance, worth about 100 million dollars, is to be left to his grandson, provided that he

A. Get married before his thritieth birthday.
B. Stay Married to the same girl for at least ten years
C. Produce genetically confirmable offspring in the first five years, and D. Not spend more then one night per month outside the same house as his wife.

One of the problems is, that his bithday is the day after the viewing of the will.

So he proposes to Ann, but botches it. She calls it off.

So, he decides he doesn't really need the money, and decides to patch things with Ann, taking however long he needs to do it. Then he learns that if he forfeits the money, he forfeits the company he owns, and the 200 people who work for him will all be fired. That is his motivation for finding a wife.

So, he looks up all his ex gf's, and they all turn him down, except for Buckley, who is in it fo the money, cause she absolutely despises the bachelor. She eventually wigs out also.

So then one of his friends take sit in his own hands, and puts a front page article in the paper about his needing to be married within 12 hours for a hundred million dollars.

This is where you see the march of the Brides.

Eventually, he get's cornered, surrounded on all sides by brides wild to marry him, and fighting each other for him, and his one true love, Ann, ran back to her parents house the night before, and the clock is ticking away the final five minutes before he forfeits the will.

This was an excellent, excellent movie, filled with touching moments, funny moments, and general good humor. I give it Five Field Mice.

And, as always, Ebert can have the Balcony, the Sneak Previews guys can have the Aisle seats. I want the exact middle!