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Rachel Getting Married

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Original title

Rachel Getting Married

Year

2008

Running time

116 min.

Country

United States

Director

Jonathan Demme

Screenwriter

Jenny Lumet

Cast

Music

Zafer Tawil

Cinematography

Declan Quinn

Producer

Sony Pictures Classics

Genre

Drama | Family Relationships. Weddings

Synopsis

When Kim (Anne Hathaway) returns to the Buchman family home for the wedding of her sister Rachel (Rosemarie Dewitt), she brings a long history of personal crisis and family conflict along with her. The wedding party’s abundant cast of 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.

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Awards: 2008: Nominated for Oscar: Best Actress (Anne Hathaway)

2008: Nominated for Golden Globe: Best Actress - Drama (Anne Hathaway)

2008: New York Film Critics Circle: Best Screenplay. 5 Nominations

2008: National Board of Review: Best Actress

2008: Festival Toronto: Best Director, Screenplay, Supporting Actress (DeWitt)

2008: Venice Film Festival: Official Selection

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Critics' reviews

"At times, the movie gets bogged down in minutia but the emotions evoked and captured are as honest and brutal as one is likely to find on film."

James Berardinelli: ReelViews
"Hathaway transcends her usual complacency in this role and resists the temptation of using Kym's (and her own) wounded-bird appeal to let the character off the hook."

Dana Stevens: Slate
"At its best in scenes featuring Hathaway's mercurial character. It's a triumphant and darkly nuanced role for her and a departure from the more lighthearted comedic performances she has given."

Claudia Puig: USA Today
"It would be a shame to miss 'Rachel Getting Married', which may have its flaws, but which is so persuasively forgiving of the flaws of its inhabitants that you can only respond, in like spirit, with love."

A. O. Scott: The New York Times
"'Rachel Getting Married' is the first narrative feature since the 1980s from director Jonathan Demme that feels like a party--bittersweet, but a party nonetheless."

Michael Phillips: Chicago Tribune
"A middlebrow domestic drama beating its wings against an experimental frame."

Ella Taylor: LA Weekly
"As Kym, Hathaway runs an astonishing gamut of emotions, from anger to fragility and from hurt to regret - without ever seeming actress-y, like Nicole Kidman. Start clearing that mantelpiece, Anne."

Lou Lumenick: New York Post
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