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A Wedding

Carol Burnett (Actor), Desi Arnaz Jr. (Actor), Robert Altman (Director) | Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) | Format: DVD
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars How A Family Starts, Aug 21 2009
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Ruhi E. Tuzlak (Toronto, Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Wedding (DVD)
Even though the approaches and the styles are very different, watching "A Wedding" reminded me another Family story: "My Mother's Smile" (I admit that I saw them in a relatively short period of time). The more I think about it the more I relaize that there are many similarities between these two outstanding productions. Both of them take a very close and realistic look at this mysterious institution. Altman, in this film manages to observe and show quite a few different segments of several families in a masterful way; and, do not forget that everything happens within a 24-hour period. Every part of the story reminded me one or more families I happen to know very well.
Some viewers migh think this is an "Altman-light"; I respectfully disagree. The drama of family dynamics cannot be depicted in a better way. After three decades this film is still as fresh as a brand new production.
Do not miss it --even if you have seen it before, see it again.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great movie I can say!, Jan 9 2011
This review is from: A Wedding (DVD)
I saw this movie a couple of times through the years (or the decades!) and every time I am under the impression that I knew these people in my family, my work, my life in fact. Altman is a master to analyse idiosyncrasies which he applies to characters... A cult movie in my opinion.
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14 of 16 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Black Humor at Its Best, April 29 2003
By Diego Banducci - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: A Wedding (VHS Tape)
Altman's technique of interweaving plots is perfectly suited to weddings, one-time events where participants, all with their own axes to grind, clash. Filmed in pre-politically correct 1978, this film simply gets better with age. The all-star cast is a joy, especially Lillian Gish and Mia Farrow, who plays a pubescent nymphomaniac.

Unlike Short Cuts or Ready to Wear, but like Nashville and Gosford Manor, this is an Altman film where it all comes together and works. Good stuff.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars My favorite Robert Altman film . . ., Sep 23 2007
By Marc Harshbarger - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: A Wedding (DVD)
It is. I could go downstairs right now and watch "A Wedding"--for the upteenth time--and enjoy it all over again. I LOVE this film--even more than Altman's masterpiece, "Nashville". I saw "A Wedding" in the theater when I was a teenager--and, of course, I adored Carol Burnett (still do), so I had to see it. And I believe it was the first Altman film I ever saw, and from that moment on, I was a devoted fan of his.

"A Wedding" has over 40 main characters and lots of plots and subplots, but in a nutshell, it's about a young couple's wedding day that brings together both their families. Ms. Burnett plays the mother of the bride, Tulip, and she's just perfect in the role, which allows her to be hysterically funny and very dramatic. The legendary Lillian Gish plays the dying matriarch who remains upstairs in her bedroom throughout the entire film as various family members pay her a visit. Mia Farrow--in one of her best roles--plays Carol's daughter (the sister of the bride)--she's a mute troubled girl who causes major problems for her family. Desi Arnaz, Jr. (Lucy's handsome son) plays the groom, Pam Dawber (before "Mork & Mindy") plays Desi's ex-girlfriend and the delightful Geraldine Chaplin plays the frantic wedding coordinator--she's comic perfection in this film. Those are just a few of the many terrific actors in "A Wedding", which is very dark, very funny, very disturbing and very entertaining.

Does that sound like a good time to you? If so, then you're invited to attend "A Wedding". I think you'll enjoy yourself.

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3.0 out of 5 stars So close, yet so far, Jan 16 2005
By Jay Dickson - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: A Wedding (VHS Tape)
Altman's follow-up to NASHVIILE (after having done THREE WOMEN in between) promised to do for the American family and the class system what NASHVILLE itself did for pop culture and democracy. The film doesn't live up to the standard of the earlier film by a long shot, and is much too wild and woolly to suit its topic. Yet it does have some great moments of redemption.

The film explores an afternoon at the home of one of the great wealthy old families in Chicago--the Sloans--as Dino Corelli (Desi Arnaz, Jr.), the grandson of the family's elderly matriarch Netty (Lillian Gish), marries "Muffin" Brenner (Amy Stryker), the brace-faced daughter of a newly wealthy Kentucky trucking company owner. The scenes near the beginning of the wedding guests frantically trying to find bathrooms in the Sloan mansion after the ceremony are as good as anything Altman's ever done. But the film loses a great deal of focus after that: it seems to be missing a center (not enough is done with either the groom or the bride--despite Stryker's promising performance--to make you care enough about either of them). And some of the bits, such as those involving the crazy security team hired to protect the wedding gifts, belong in another film altogether. The film's great redemption is Carol Burnett's performance as Muffin's mother Tulip, a deeply conventional (yet very likable) middle American woman whose life is turned upside down when the groom's wealthy uncle tells her he's fallen in love with her at first sight. At first shocked and (literally) nauseated, Tulip becomes slowly intrigued as she begins to see a possibility for her life she never imagined before. The emotional arc her character takes in the film is amazing: although Burnett's performance has some similarities to her work on her comedy show, it is much more subtle and fleshed out. Her Tulip Brenner, like the best characters in NASHVILLE, is someone you wonder about long after the movie is over: she seems like a real and fully developed person.
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