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Rachel Getting Married
Saw Rachel Getting Married today. It is very very good and acting is excellent....possibly an Oscar nomination for Best Actress for Anne Hathaway as the dysfunctional, narcissistic daughter Kym on weekend furlow from a drug rehab hospital for her sister Rachel's wedding. The weekend should be about Rachel, her fiancee and the wedding but Kym keeps dragging her drug addiction and life as an addict and source of a family tragedy. During the rehearsal dinner with both extended families and many friends, her speech to the bride and groom brings the whole party down. Pretty quickly she brings down her sister, her father and her divorced mother. The weekend becomes a series of major confrontations by the family with issues from the past. We see that each member of the family has dealt with the family tragedy differently the family is far from together or cohesive in their response. Very very good. Acting is excellent. Only draw back, other than wanting to throttle Kym halfway through the film, is the overly long wedding sequence. Movie would be better with about ten minutes less of the wedding party.

I agree on AH's
asw — Tue, 11/18/2008 - 03:18I agree on AH's performance. I had to step back and ask why I went to see it , as the subject matter was not all that entertaining
from a " night at the movies" perspective . Emotionally trying to say the least, I was wrung out when I left, and still running on empty. I
felt like a voyeur in someone else's house and conversations, almost like I didn't belong or was violating someones space. I think
Demming planned this very carefully all the way to the jittery cameras in home movie mode.