Rachel Getting Married

Name: Rachel Getting Married
Released: 2008-10-3
Cast: Anne Hathaway, Rosemarie DeWitt, Mather Zickel, Bill Irwin, Anna Deavere Smith

R
1h 53m
2008

84%

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When Kym (Anne Hathaway - Golden Globe® Nominee, Best Actress, Motion Picture (Drama)), returns to the Buchman family home for the wedding of her sister Rachel (Rosemarie DeWitt), she brings a long history of personal crises, family conflict and tragedy along with her. The wedding couple's abundant party of friends and relations have gathered for a joyful weekend of feasting, music and love, but Kym - with her biting one-liners and flair 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.

Director:

Jonathan Demme

Producer:

Jonathan Demme, Neda Armian, Marc Platt

Writer:

Jenny Lumet

Cast:

Anne Hathaway, Rosemarie DeWitt, Mather Zickel, Bill Irwin, Anna Deavere Smith, Debra Winger, Anisa George, Robyn Hitchcock, Sister Carol East, Tunde Adebimpe

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

84%

Critics Consensus: Rachel Getting Married is an engrossing tale of family angst, highlighted by Anne Hathaway's powerful performance and director Jonathan Demme's return to form.

Reviews

Patheos

Eve Tushnet

It is basically a perfect film.

Demme and Squyres devote enough of the film's runtime to the wooly, recognizable chaos of a normal wedding that it puts the sore personal issues lurking in the background into stark relief.

It's easy to throw around the word masterpiece, particularly when any film that deviates from Hollywood's well-trodden path comes as so much of a relief. But, in its own small and unassuming way, Rachel Getting Married is just that.

By trimming away excess to an almost Dogma 95 degree of austerity, Demme and screenwriter Jenny Lumet...offer us a penetrating look into a deeply wounded family.

A moving and reassuring experience if ever there was one, feels like a warm welcome home.

July 7, 2019

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