My Best Friend's Wedding Filmed In Chicago. The film stars julia roberts, dermot mulroney. Barry the cuda's restaurant was filmed in what was once joe's crab shack on wells st, just south of chicago ave.

Roger ebert june 27, 1997.

When michael (dermot mulroney) tells his lifelong best friend julianne, played by julia roberts, that he is getting married in four days, she immediately flies to chicago and makes every attempt to stop the wedding. Julianne is devastated to learn that michael is marrying this rich young beauty, and her strategy is simple: My best friend's wedding one of the best romantic comedies of the 1990s, my just when they're about to reach the deadline of their agreement, mulroney arrives in chicago to introduce roberts to his seemingly perfect fiancée (cameron diaz) and announce their wedding in just three days. The worst of the best.