Polish Wedding

Pros: The leads.
Cons: Violence, grimness and general hopelessness of the story.

Meet Bolek (Gabriel Byrne) and his sprawling, brawling family. Living in modern day Detroit, he's proud of his ethnic heritage -- he and his wife are Polish -- and even prouder still of his daughter, Hala (Claire Danes). Hala, blonde, lithe and beautiful, ...

Pros: I truly can't think of any.
Cons: Uh-huh!

Polish Wedding (1998)

I am really, really confused. Confused and annoyed. Confused, annoyed, and even more confused. Why does Blockbuster have director Theresa Connelly's Polish Wedding in the "comedy" section? To me,...

Pros: Can I use the "Pros" section to write more "Cons"? Darn.
Cons: Bad acting, bad lines, bad story, it's just hopelessly bad.

Hmmm, somehow I missed the memo about how Polish women are known to be floozies who delight in trapping men with pregnancy. Boy, it's a good thing I watched "A Polish Wedding", or I never would have known about this silent epidemic. (A little...

Pros: Claire Danes is easy to look at
Cons: Everything else

We rented this movie while on a trip with friends, thinking it would be a good dash of culture and art-house sensibility in an otherwise beer-soaked, cheese-laden weekend (we were in Wisconsin.) WRONG. Despite sporting a seemingly all-star cast of...

Pros: Lesson on how not to live your life
Cons: Lesson on how not to make a movie

Where do I begin with the problems with this movie. Claire Danes proves once again that she is not worth whatever price is being paid to her in this story about a troubled Polish-American family in the Northeast US. Basically, the movie plays to the...

Pros: Gives background for a Polish Wedding
Cons: No Humor

Was this movie really a comedy? To most people they would say no. To someone of a Polish heritage we would say yes. We can see the little humor in this movie. I would have never wanted to see this movie except that I myself am 100% Polish and I have...

Pros: Good performances (but still couldn't save the day).
Cons: Is this supposed to be a comedy?

POLISH WEDDING: Comedy. If "Polish Wedding" was meant to represent a slice of life from the viewpoint of an American working class family from Poland, it's final message is more depressing than hopeful. More misguided than rooted....

Pros: none
Cons: anti-Polish stereotypes

I have seen this movie because I am Polish. The plot is short and can be summarized as "all Polish women are sluts, or want to be one". This movie intends to picture to some extent Polish-American society but in fact it is anti-Polish by...