Rachel Getting Married

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Rachel Getting Married

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Rachel Getting Married

Anne Hathaway, Rosemarie DeWitt, Mather Zickel, Bill Irwin, Anna Deavere Smith

When Kym returns to the Buchman family home for the wedding of her sister Rachel, she brings a long history of personal crisis and family conflict along with her. The wedding party's abundant cast of ...( read more  read more... )friends and relations have gathered for an idyllic weekend of feasting, music and love, but Kym -- with her black-comic one-liners and knack for bombshell drama -- is a catalyst for long-simmering tensions in the family dynamic. Filled with the rich and eclectic characters that remain a hallmark of Jonathan Demme's films, RACHEL GETTING MARRIED paints a heartfelt, perceptive and sometimes hilarious family portrait.

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  • dreamfaeries
    December 27, 2009
    dreamfaeries
    Fabulous! Great performance by Hathaway. Well directed and written... all around good movie.
  • JDFortuneFan
    December 20, 2009
    JDFortuneFan
    Bravo! This film shows dysfunction within a family in a true light. The acting is superb and whether you like the filming style or not, there is raw emotion in this story which is more honest than most will be willing to admit. Not a film for everyone because so many will not ...( read more)accept the annoying, nerve grating truth of an extremely dysfunctional family.
  • lewiskendell
    December 10, 2009
    lewiskendell
    After watching Rachel Getting Married, I was left with two very strong impressions. Jenny Lumet is an outstanding writer, and Anne Hathaway has more acting ability than I ever would have expected.

    The writing really is artful. Lumet clearly has a clear understanding of family ...( read more)relationships and and dynamics, and that's a big part of what makes this movie so good. None of the characters seem inauthentic, and none of the dialogue feels contrived. Everything an everyone makes sense within the story, and it lends the movie a level of realism that could almost be from a documentary. I loved it.

    As for the actors, as I said before, every role is wonderful. Each actor turns their character into a real, breathing person, and you feel lie you're peering into the lives of some actual people in Stamford, CT. Anne and Rosemarie DeWitt are charged with most of the heavy acting, and they hit it out of the park. Outstanding, all around.

    The story is sad, uncomfortable, funny, and joyous. I like movies that can invoke a variety of different emotions from the audience, and Rachel Getting Married is a prime example of that. If you like complex characters and compelling family dramas, then this is the movie for you.
  • ebs90
    September 28, 2009
    ebs90

    I liked Demme's up-close approach to the family drama surrounding Rachel's wedding. The weight of the film lies almost exclusively on the charisma of the performances, which -independently of whether or not we think their characters' actions are realistic- ultimately is not a

    ...( read more)disappointing decision; the dialogue almost tries too hard to sound real, but the actors do a good job with it.

    I think it is simply irresponsible to say -this wouldn't have happened, this isn't realistic enough, this person would have never said that.. because family dynamics are usually pretty weird to by-standers and that's what I was to this film, a spectator. The film tries to be involving, and succeeds to a certain degree, but there is a well- established limit to its intimacy (I can't tell whether it was intentional or not). Rachel Getting Married is as intimate as a homemade wedding video. If you watch it, you feel that you have access to very personal memories of the couple, but that's it. A wedding video doesn't include insights, only registers behaviors and dialogue, without backgrounds, or wanders off in contemplation or lingers on anything that isn't very obviously concerned to the wedding.


    The film has some very cute moments, sad moments, and good music. It has a lot of color and plenty going on, there's always someone singing or talking... I would say it stays very basic in the possibilities of telling a story cinematically, and this stands out simply because it is evident that it could have gone further.


    Anne Hathaway's performance is good, but I wouldn't say any better than Rosemarie DeWitt's, or any of the cast for that matter. Jonathan Demme did find himself fine actors, and that's the main attractive.


    Rachel Getting Married is enjoyable but -in spite of some visceral moments- it stays a little shallow. Showing people talking like people in "real life" is entertaining but it isn't enough to secure a profound film; it's a good way to get a message across in a compelling way, but it isn't brilliance.
  • danperry17
    August 12, 2009
    danperry17
    Filled with unlikeable characters and extended awkward moments, Rachel Getting Married is film that remains watchable despite the ever-increasing disfunctionality of the on-screen family. Anne Hathaway picked exactly the right moment in her career to doff the Disney sheen, and th...( read more)e Academy (never-one to shy away from cross-cast family stars) made sure to recognize this performance with an Oscar: good choice, she is excellent, playing a vulnerable, untrustworthy character that you're sort of rooting for but - like her own family - you can't really trust to not let you down in the end.

    Beyond Hathaway, though, there isn't much else to watch in this film: the supporting cast is populated with types who do a decent job but who don't keep up with the star. The shooting is interesting, as by times it cuts to a relative's video camera and gives a grainy home video feel to the action, but Jonathan Demme is guilty of "just letting the camera run" a little too often: this film could have been a fair bit shorter, and it seemed that there was a lot of filler. In one sense he could be said to be exploring the varied music at the wedding, but in another sense he could've been stretching out something that might not fill an hour on TV.

    There are pros and cons to it, but yes, I do recommend it, even if it's little more than the chance to see one of this generation's best young acting talents separate herself from the pack. A worthwhile rental.
  • helloibrahim
    December 31, 2009
    helloibrahim
    Well i really liked this film, it was very emotional and real; i mean this are actual problems... and it has that.. fcked up caracters dealin with real life... Anne Hathaway was amazing in this...
  • DutchCrow
    December 30, 2009
    DutchCrow
    Wasn't enjoying this movie at all. Couldn't compare myself with none of the characters. Kym was almost the perfect example of an attention seeking person who talks too much (and a lot of jibberish) and gets on my nerves quite easily. At first Rachel looks like a wiser person who ...( read more)knows what she's talking about, but after a while it turns out that she's basically the same. Nothing much happens in this movie, it's all about denying what the other person just said and making trouble out of nothing.
  • tiffanychung
    December 26, 2009
    tiffanychung
    rachel is such a bitchy sister. ugh.
  • movietiffany
    December 23, 2009
    movietiffany
    I was really excited to see this movie, but after I watch it I wasn't that excited anymore. The movie was alright, but I thought it dragged on and I did not like any of the characters.
  • Shaqswife
    December 20, 2009
    Shaqswife
    Rachel Getting Married is about a woman with many issues and addictions that has to face her family during her sisters wedding. This film was filled with many awkward momments and unrealistic plots. The only good thing about this movie is that it shows how selfish addictions real...( read more)ly can be.
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