Rachel Getting Married
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Kym is a former model. Kym is in rehab. Kym's family is well heeled but extremely dysfunctional. Kym is responsible for a horrible tragedy that no one will talk about. Her sister, Rachel, is about to be married, and Kym is granted a leave to attend. Kym wants desperately to fit in, to be a normal
… More »Kym is a former model. Kym is in rehab. Kym's family is well heeled but extremely dysfunctional. Kym is responsible for a horrible tragedy that no one will talk about. Her sister, Rachel, is about to be married, and Kym is granted a leave to attend. Kym wants desperately to fit in, to be a normal person, but she doesn't know how. In her slouchy dark clothes, with a choppy, angular haircut, she seems programmed to shut everyone out. Kym, as a participating member of the wedding, finally comes to understand that giving up a certain amount of control in the interest of a mutual good is a fair definition of the state of marriage, and sometimes, you have to take the risk and see what happens, for better or for worse.
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"Sony Pictures Classics presents" --At head of title
Layout and design Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Inc. 2009
Originally produced as a motion picture in 2008
Special features: Commentary with producer Neda Armian, screenwriter Jenny Lumet, and editor Tim Squyres; Commentary with actress Rosemarie Dewitt; deleted scenes; A look behind the scenes of "Rachel Getting Married" [featurette] (16 min.); The wedding band [featurette] ( min.); Cast and crew Q&A at Jacob Burns Center, Pleasantville, New York [featurette] (49 min.); Deleted scenes (20 min.); Theatrical trailer (3 min.); Previews (25 min.)
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Add a SummaryRachel's sister, Kim, returns home for Rachel's wedding from a drug rehabilitation centre. The film is shot in a documentary style and the plot details are slowly revealed. Although, all the situations are fairly natural and believable as a doc-movie style, it is difficult to grasp all the details that are revealed on the first viewing. For example, it wasn't clear that the first empty bedroom Kim walked into after talking to Rachel belonged to her deceased brother. The movie's end is rather open as it ends with the return of the rehabilitation staff member, come to pick Kim up at the end of weekend.
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Add a NoticeCoarse Language: This title contains Coarse Language.
Sexual Content: One scene
Coarse Language: Adult language used throughout the film.
Violence: One brief scene of domestic violence and a description of a death off screen.
Sexual Content: Very brief moment of sexual content and sexual language.
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Add a CommentI was hoping that the film would focus more on the characters and their issues and less on the wedding. Why couldn’t Rachel just elope?
Anne Hathaway received Golden Globe and Oscar nominations for her portrayal of a drug and/or alcohol addict who has a weekend out of a rehabilitation center so she can return home for her sister’s wedding. The return shows interesting camera work as the director Jonathan Demme follows Hathaway though a labyrinth of hallways and rooms as she seems kind of estranged from her own home. The wedding festivities include an incredible mix of different cultures and races. If this is an indication of a future America, then the Republican Party has a lot of mending of ways if they ever want to capture the presidency again.
I simply couldn't get through this movie. I usually love stories about dysfunctional relationships but this was too much. Also, the music in the film was headache-inducing.
I thought that the plot was good and well written. The music was very very bad, the movie could have had 60 minutes cut out and it would have been much better. There were at least 6 different bands at the never ending reception after the never ending rehearsal dinner the night before! I swear some guy must have throrn all of his singing friends in here.
This has got to be one of the worst movies I have ever seen. Nothing but random people rambling on and on. I had to turn it off 30 minutes into it.
This movie wasn't really a climax sort of movie. That being said, I still enjoyed it.
Good movie about addiction.
I can't stand weddings, or movies about them, but for some reason I really enjoyed this movie.
Awful. Turned it off after 1/2 hour.
ONE hold on 109 copies??!!!? Could it be that the PUBLIC library has wasted the taxpayers' money . . . AGAIN?????? This is one of the worst films ever made, bar none. Stupid script ("I refuse to believe in a God who would accept a wretched sinner lahk me"), horrible performance by the once-adequate Anne Hathaway, who has never seemed this shrill and empty before. Jonathan Demme can't direct. He never could, come to think of it. His one genuinely great film, Married to the Mob, was a coup of sublime casting and happy accidents.