Rachel Getting Married

Pros: Hathaway, Winger, Irwin, DeWitt, screenplay, direction, music
Cons: None to me

It's never easy for Kym Buckman to come home. She's a drug addict who has spent half of her teens and all of her adult years going in and out of rehab centers in an effort to deal with her problem. She never seems to get any better. Part of Kym's problem ...

Pros: Demme's Direction, Screenplay, Cinematography, Editing, Music, Set Decorations, & Cast.
Cons: None.

Films about weddings are either told in a sentimental fashion with light humor or something dark looming filled with family drama. 2007's Margot at the Wedding by Noah Baumbach, inspired by Eric Rohmer's Pauline a la plage (Pauline ...

Pros: Hathaway, DeWitt, Winger and Irwin are must-sees.
Cons: A wedding party that's just TOO perfect.

Kym (Anne Hathaway) is getting out of a lengthy stint in rehab, just in time to join up with her family, as they gather at her father’s house for the wedding of older sister Rachel (Rosemarie deWitt, from MAD MEN).  Kym is angry, paranoid, ...

Pros:   Anne Hathaway is oscar worthy.  A powerful film that is both honest and observant.
Cons:   Director Jonathan Demme falls in love with the concept of ambiance at certain intervals.

Directed By Jonathan Demme. Written By Jenny Lumet Anne Hathaway (Kym) Rosemary DeWitt (Rachel) Bill Irwin (Paul) Debra Winger (Abby) Tunde Adebimpe (Sydney) Mather Zickel (Kieran) Anne Deveare Smith (Carol)   ...

Pros: Performances, poignancy, script.
Cons: Some dragged out sequences, occasionally you can tell what's scripted and what's not.

The essence of Rachel Getting Married is reflected in its title — yes, Rachel (Rosemarie DeWitt) is getting married, but the story focuses on Kym (Anne Hathaway), the sister just out of rehab begging for attention and creating a mess ...

Pros: Warm interracial & interclass harmony.
Cons: Unsteady camera, but then that's the nature of visual experience at a large gathering.

I personally don't like large gatherings—such as this movie portrays to a fault—so I subtracted a star for the visceral discomfort of the roving camera, then added it back for the cute pun involving the title. Rachel Getting Married. ...

Pros: Offered in limited release.
Cons: Was ever released.

This was an absolutely horrendous film.I know that it's somewhat approaching sacrilege to denigrate a limited release film, but its lack of widespread release was really the only good thing about this Demme production.I missed watching ...