El Hijo de la novia (Son of the Bride) (2001)
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86% of critics liked it
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90% of users liked it
(6,259 ratings)
A family wedding brings out the best and the worst in the various parties involved in this warm but pointed comedy-drama. Rafael Belvedere (Ricardo Darin) makes his living running the restaurant ran by his father, Nino (Hector Alterio), and the combination of a stressful job and familial tensions… More A family wedding brings out the best and the worst in the various parties involved in this warm but pointed comedy-drama. Rafael Belvedere (Ricardo Darin) makes his living running the restaurant ran by his father, Nino (Hector Alterio), and the combination of a stressful job and familial tensions are wearing him down to a frazzle. Rafael is divorced from his wife, Sandra (Claudia Fontan), he's all but a stranger to his daughter, Vicky (Gimena Nobile), and it's been almost a year since he last paid a visit to his mother, Norma (Norma Aleandro), who is battling Alzheimer's in a retirement home. Rafael has a girlfriend, Naty (Natalia Verbeke), but after a long day of work and dealing with his father, she finds he rarely wants to do anything but watch old reruns on television. With Norma's health declining, Nino decides that he wants to renew their wedding vows and give his wife the nice church service he couldn't afford when he was younger; however, arranging the affair turns out to be far more complicated than either Rafael or Nino imagined, and the circumstances lead to some profound changes for father, son, and the rest of the family. El Hijo de la Novia was directed by Juan Jose Campanella, who in recent years has been dividing his time between helming feature films in his native Argentina and directing episodic television in America. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
- Directed By
- Juan José Campanella
- Written By
- Fernando Castets
- Genres
- Drama, Art House & International, Comedy
R,
- In Theaters
- Mar 22, 2002 Wide
- Studio
- Sony Pictures Classics
Critic Reviews
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Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune
It's fresh, funny, biting, fast-paced and reasonably perceptive about people and their problems.
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Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer
It's a wise and endearing little film.
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Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star
It would seem that wherever there are middle-class, midlife crises to be suffered, there are movies to be made about those crises, and they somehow all manage to transcend their local trappings in favour of a kind of borderless emotional banality.
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Mark Peranson, Globe and Mail
What starts off as a possible Argentine American Beauty reeks like a room stacked with pungent flowers.
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Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post
Like any good romance, Son of the Bride, proves it's never too late to learn.
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Cast
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Ricardo Darín
as Rafael Belvedere
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Héctor Alterio
as Nino Belvedere
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Norma Aleandro
as Norma Belvedere
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Eduardo Blanco
as Juan Carlos
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Natalia Verbeke
as Naty
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Gimena Nobile
as Vicky
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Claudia Fontan
as Sandra
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David Masajnik
as Nacho
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Atilio Pozzobon
as Francesco
