Revenge of the Bridesmaids is a made-for-TV movie directed by Jim Hayman and produced by Freeform, then ABC Family, starring Raven-Symoné and Joanna Garcia Swisher playing life-long best friends who go undercover as bridesmaids to help their third musketeer.
When Abigail (Symoné) and Parker (Garcia) return to their small Louisiana hometown, they find, to their horror, the boy their best friend Rachel (Chryssie Whitehead) is madly in love with is engaged to their gold-digging frenemy, Caitlyn McNabb (Virginia Williams). Well, Abigail and Parker are not going to let this stand. After securing a spot in Caitlyn's bridal party, the girls set out to sabotage the wedding before Caitlyn can sink her claws into the unlucky groom for good.
The movie premiered on July 18, 2010. It was ranked among the Top 5 ABC Family Original Movies, and won the Teen Film/TV Series International Award for Best Film Made for Television and Best Comedy Film of the Year.
This film provides examples of:
- The Baby Trap: How Caitlyn pressures Tony into marrying her. She catches him On the Rebound after Rachel and has a one-night stand, then lies about being pregnant with his child.
- Backstabbing the Alpha Bitch: Abigail, Parker and Rachel were Caitlyn's Girl Posse throughout childhood and high school. The fact none of them can stand her is just the incentive to stop the wedding and knock the McNabbs off their high horses. In the climax, they're joined by Bitsy for this reason too.
- Devil in Plain Sight: Caitlyn and her mom. They may think they have everyone fooled with their Southern Belle acts, but the whole town knows they're really just two-faced, self-absorbed Gold Diggers.
- Earn Your Happy Ending: After Tony lies to Caitlyn about his family going bankrupt, she reveals her lie and calls off the wedding. Tony proposes to Rachel, and they get married with Parker and Abigail as real bridesmaids. Parker returns to New York a take-charge person and lands a lead role in an action movie, now dating Henry, who is in his way to becoming a detective. And finally, Abigail writes her new novel based on the movie's events, and it becomes a bestseller.
- Engineered Public Confession: The bridesmaids final gambit to break up the wedding. They force Caitlyn to drink a bottle of tea and drag her to a hospital so her urine can be tested. When this seems to have failed, Caitlyn gloats about tricking Tony and their futile efforts to stop her. Cue Henry walking into the room, having captured every word on his camcorder.
- Extreme Doormat: Rachel. She quietly goes along with whatever she's told and her only resistance is bursting into tears. She slowly grows a spine through helping Abigail and Parker.
- Fake Pregnancy: Caitlyn and Tony had a one-night stand, which she says she's pregnant from. But the girls soon find out that she lied, even stealing another woman's urine sample and passing it off as her own to the doctor.
- Gold Digger: Caitlyn and her mother, Olivia. Olivia has been married three times, all ending in divorce, all to keep her and her daughter living in style. When she runs through her third husband's money and is too old to snag a fourth, Caitlyn takes over her duties.
- Guess Who I'm Marrying?: A non-familial example. Caitlyn tells Abigail and Parker she's getting married. When Tony comes up, the girls recognize him from Facebook. That's when Caityln's mother announces, "There's our gorgeous groom!"
- Honorable Marriage Proposal: Tony is forced by the old-fashioned standards of their hometown to marry Caitlyn after she claims she has gotten pregnant by him.
- How We Got Here: The story starts with Abigail, Parker, and Rachel having their mugshots taken. From there, Abigail narrates what led them to being arrested.
- Interrogation by Vandalism: The bridesmaids get Bitsy to admit Caitlyn is faking The Baby Trap by threatening to stain her expensive sweaters.
- The Perfectionist: Caitlyn will tolerate nothing less than the wedding of her dreams, which inspires a series of pranks by the bridesmaids. These include switching the flowers to ones that she's allergic to, having a bouncy house sent instead of a white tent, and leaving the ice sculptures with their gentalia on.
- Precision F-Strike: After learning Caitlyn lied about being pregnant, Rachel lets out one very appropriate "bitch".
- Saying Too Much: Bitsy bragging about her and Caitlyn's night of drinking, which clues the bridesmaids in that Caitlyn isn't really pregnant, since she's not supposed do that if she has a baby.
- You Are Fat: Olivia likes to taunt Abigail this way.
