R (1:29)
Wide release April 26, 2013
Saw it at Crossroads Sat. afternoon 5/25/13 (Happy Birthday, Steve...)
Comedy
RT Critic: 8% Audience: 69%
Cag: 4/Liked it a lot
Directed by Justin Zackham
Lionsgate Films
Robert De Niro, Susan Sarandon, Diane Keaton, Topher Grace, Katherine Heigl, Robin Williams, Amanda Seyfried
My thoughts: The Big Wedding was a frivolously fun movie to watch on a Saturday afternoon. There were lots of good ha ha's and many gentle chuckles...and even a few snorts coming from me. What a fantastic cast to be able to watch, some famous names and a few new faces that were quite delightful. You could tell exactly what was going to happen, there were no surprises at all, but that was okay...that's not the kinds of movie it was. The setting - a huge house on the edge of a clear, calm lake on a perfect summer weekend (by watching the credits I think it was somewhere in or about Greenwich, CT). I enjoyed the movie a lot. And Topher Grace was adorable.
Fandango/Rotten Tomatoes synopsis: A charmingly modern family tires to survive a weekend wedding celebration that has the potential to become a full blown family fiasco. To the amusement of their adult children and friends, long divorced couple Don and Ellie Griffin (De Niro and Keaton) are once again forced to play the happy couple for the sake of their adopted son's wedding after his ultra conservative biological mother unexpectedly decides to fly halfway across the world to attend. With all of the wedding guests looking on, the Griffins are hilariously forced to confront their past, present and future - and hopefully avoid killing each other in the process
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