Fed up with his intrusiveness, she offers him the opportunity to spend time with her one-on-one and see for himself that she is not a bad person. Ike follows Maggie around town, much to her annoyance, and speaks with her friends, family, and former fiancés, all of whom are happy to share their thoughts. She is now on her fourth attempt to be married the groom-to-be, Bob Kelly, is a high school football coach who speaks in constant sports analogies and has been working with Maggie to help her “visualize” the wedding. Ike travels to Hale, Maryland, where Maggie works at her family's hardware store and makes designer lamps out of spare industrial parts. Later, Ike's boss offers him a chance to restore his reputation by writing an in-depth, truthful article about Maggie, if only to prove that she is indeed the heartless "man-eater" he claimed her to be. After she sends a scathing rebuttal to the newspaper, Ike is fired for not verifying his source. Misanthropic New York columnist Ike Graham writes an unflattering article about Maggie after hearing her story from a man in a bar unbeknownst to him, the man is one of Maggie's bitter ex-fiancés, and his account is riddled with errors. Having left a trio of fiancés at the altar on their wedding day, she has earned local notoriety and the dubious nickname "The Runaway Bride”. Maggie Carpenter is a spirited, attractive young woman who has had a number of unsuccessful relationships. It received generally negative reviews from critics but was a commercial success, grossing $309 million worldwide.
It is the second film to co-star Gere and Roberts, following Pretty Woman (1990). The screenplay, written by Sara Parriott and Josann McGibbon, is about a reporter (Gere) who undertakes to write a story about a woman (Roberts) who has left a string of fiancés at the altar. Runaway Bride is a 1999 American screwball romantic comedy film directed by Garry Marshall, and starring Julia Roberts and Richard Gere.
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