Movie: RACHEL GETTING MARRIED
Director: JONATHAN DEMME
Genre Keywords: Drama, Dysfunctional Family, Rehabilitation, Wedding
Cast: Anne Hathaway, Debra Winger, Rosemarie DeWitt, Bill Irwin
Duration: 1h 52m (app)
IMDB Rating: 7.1 / 10.0

Premise:

Kym (Anne Hathaway) who is under rehab from drugs comes to attend her sister’s (Rachel) wedding. It follows how the family comes to terms with Kym who is involved in a tragic flashback which has also put the relationship of the two sisters into sensitivity. There is a caring father who refuses to accept the culpability of his daughter. There is a divorced mother, a Best Man Co-Rehab’ian and a musical to-be-brother-in-law. The impact the adolescent crime of Kym causes on the family and how their feelings pass through crests and troughs with her.

Style:

Yes, Rachel is getting married and the whole movie flows through the various photographic moments of a marriage. Jonathan Demme has shot the entire movie in a handy-cam mode – which distinctly enhances the film’s marriage connection. It creates the ambience of a marriage effectively. The scenes that highlight an American marriage are also captured in full.

Pros:

Anne Hathaway earned a well deserved Oscar nomination for here role in ‘Rachel Getting Married’. It’s her performance that carries the movie through out.

Look for the scenes when the toast happens during the marriage rehearsal and the musical that takes place after Rachel is married – it’s filled with so much of warmth!

The exchanges that happen between Kym and Rachel after the toast and also when Rachel gets to know about Kym’s lies during her rehab sessions coupled with the indecisiveness of her father fighting between the love for his daughter and coming to terms of her crime - excellently crafted.

Touching!

Comments:

A must watch if you love American family dramas.

RECOMMENDED TO (People who liked):
Sideways, Little Miss Sunshine, Philadelphia (People averse to the drama genre, please stay away)

GRADE
Anne Hathaway: ****
OVERALL: ***1/2

Personal Rating: 7.7 / 10.0