Bedazzled (2000) on Netflix
PG-1320001h 33mComedyFantasyRomance
Elliot Richards, a lonely worker at a San Francisco computer company, has a crush on his colleague Alison Gardner. The Devil, a seductive woman, offers him seven wishes for his soul.
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Plot summary
The Devil runs a computer simulation that scours souls for weaknesses to exploit, and it settles on Elliot Richards, a geeky employee at a San Francisco computer company. His co-workers avoid him and he lacks the nerve to ask out his colleague Alison Gardner. Ditched at a bar one evening, he says he would give anything for her to be with him. A gorgeous woman overhears, introduces herself as the Devil and offers seven wishes in return for his soul. A test wish for fast food comes with a catch. Elliot signs the contract at her nightclub office in Oakland, and each wish he makes places him and Alison in a new life, with something he did not ask for added.
Cast
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Bedazzled (2000)
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- Brendan Fraser dropped out of The Wedding Planner to take the lead role in Bedazzled for a $10 million paycheck, with the studio eager to reteam with him after Monkeybone.
- Bedazzled topped the UK box office ahead of What Lies Beneath on its opening weekend, but in the US it opened at number two, behind the surprise smash hit Meet the Parents.
- Elizabeth Hurley drew backlash from the Screen Actors Guild over her attendance at the film's premiere, because the premiere took place during a strike the union was holding at the time.
- Harold Ramis's remake needed the blessing of Stanley Donen, director of the original 1967 Bedazzled, who jointly owned the film's rights alongside 20th Century Fox.
- The DVD release was THX certified and carried Nuon technology, usable only on Nuon-enhanced players, which added viddies, hyper slides and zoom points during the film, plus four different main menus themed to rich, famous, intelligent and sensitive.
- Screenwriter Larry Gelbart made a deliberate change from the 1967 original by rewriting the Devil as a woman rather than a man.
- The film's trailer earned its own recognition separate from the movie, winning the Saul Bass Award for Best Title Sequence at the 2001 Golden Trailer Awards.
