8 Simple Rules follows one father of the bride’s journey from the engagement (SCREAM) to the final credit card bill (he didn’t really need to retire or take vacations…or eat food again anyway). Along the way W. Bruce Cameron captures the predicament of every father whose little girls are all grown up and to his great inconvenience, no longer subject to house arrest.
Cameron’s ruminations on the more ridiculous aspects of the modern wedding are as hilarious as his ultimate realization is poignant: The father of the bride’s purpose, Cameron concludes, is to save his daughter from becoming so
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