Rachel Getting Married (2008)

Directed by

Jonathan Demme

Genre

drama film, comedy film, independent film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 54m

Rated

R

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 659 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young woman gets a weekend pass from rehab to attend her sister's wedding at the family home. Old tensions and unresolved issues surface as the family tries to celebrate.

tenseemotionalfamily-dramarawintimateuncomfortablerealisticslow-burn

What happens

Rachel Getting Married is a 2008 American drama film directed and produced by Jonathan Demme and written by Jenny Lumet. It stars Anne Hathaway as a young woman temporarily released from rehab who returns home for the weekend for her sister's wedding. Rosemarie DeWitt, Bill Irwin, Tunde Adebimpe, Mather Zickel, Anna Deavere Smith, and Debra Winger appear in supporting roles. The film had its world premiere at the 65th Venice International Film Festival on September 3, 2008, and was theatrically released in the United States on October 3, by Sony Pictures Classics. It received positive reviews from critics, who praised the performances of the cast (particularly those of Hathaway and DeWitt) and Lumet's screenplay. It earned a leading six nominations, including Best Feature, at the 24th Independent Spirit Awards. For her performance, Hathaway was nominated for Best Actress at the 81st Academy Awards, the 80th National Board of Review Awards, the 66th Golden Globe Awards, and the 15th Screen Actors Guild Awards, and won the same category at the 14th Critics' Choice Awards. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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