3/11/2009

Rachel Getting Married (2008)

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"I am Shiva the destroyer, your harbinger of doom this evening."

Kym (Anne Hathaway) is picked up from yet another stay in drug rehab by her doting father (Bill Irwin) and step-mother (Anna Deavere Smith) just in time to go home for her sister Rachel's (Rosemarie DeWitt) wedding to Sidney (Tunde Adebimpe). Kym's depression, guilt, sadness, need to be the center of attention, paranoia, and deceit surface throughout the days leading up to the wedding causing many difficulties among the family members.

Debra Winger appears as Kym and Rachel's mother. Mather Zickel plays Kieran, Sidney's best man who is also a recovering addict.

The film is done almost entirely with hand-held cameras which give a home movie feel. Stunning world music.

Directed by Jonathon Demme.

Run time: 1 hour, 57 minutes

Rated R for language and brief sexuality.

My personal rating: B

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