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Name: Father of the Bride
Released: 1950-6-17
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Bennett, Don Taylor, Billie Burke

Father of the Bride

UR
1h 29m
1950

70%

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Academy Award winners Spencer Tracy and Elizabeth Taylor star in this classic comedy about a devoted father's survival--from the time his daughter announces her engagement until the last guest departs from the wedding and reception--as The Father of the Bride. Attorney Stanley T. Banks (Tracy--Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, Adam's Rib) finds himself unprepared when his daughter, Kay (Taylor--Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof), announces her engagement to Buckley Dunstan (Don Taylor--Stalag 17), while wife Ellie (Joan Bennett) and son Tommy (Russ Tamblyn--West Side Story, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers) burst with enthusiasm for Kay's wedding. But for Stanley, gaining a "son" offers no consolation for the loss of his baby girl, who's all grown up now with a life of her own.

Director:

Vincente Minnelli

Producer:

Pandro S. Berman

Writer:

Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett

Cast:

Spencer Tracy, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Bennett, Don Taylor, Billie Burke, Leo G. Carroll, Moroni Olsen, Melville Cooper, Taylor Holmes, Paul Harvey, Frank Orth, Russ Tamblyn, Tom Irish, Marietta Canty

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

70%

Critics Consensus: While it doesn't quite hit the heights of the original, this remake of the 1950 classic is pleasantly enjoyable, thanks in large part to winning performances from Steve Martin and Martin Short.

Reviews

Birmingham Post

Mike Davies

Despite the cliches, shameless sentimentality and rampant unsubtlety, it’s an engagingly enjoyable comedy tear-jerker.

April 13, 2022

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Rachel's Reviews (YouTube)

Rachel Wagner

My favorite performance from Steve Martin especially the scene where he flips out over hot dogs

Beyond its personally threatening nature, and its unnerving idea about laying out a life's hoardings for a single unrewarding day, this new version of the romantic comedy first filmed by Vincente Minnelli in 1950 feels false.

The film's sole dramatic preoccupations are with broad physical comedy and unrealistically offbeat characterizations; a few moments of nominal pathos are really just structural pauses in the joke series.

The strengths of these films are not so much laughs as sincerity and heart. [Blu-ray]

June 22, 2017

FULL REVIEW