Rachel Getting Married: Movie, DVD, Blu-ray Review (2009)

When wedding bells sling
Directed by Jonathan Demme, written by Jenny Lumet, 113 minutes, rated R.
Jonathan Demme’s “Rachel Getting Married” isn’t really about Rachel (Rosemarie DeWitt) at all. It’s about her screwed-up sister Kym (Anne Hathaway in a sharp, Academy Award-nominated performance), a smoky, trouble-making but ultimately well-meaning mess on leave from a rehab facility who has been on drugs and booze for so much of her life, she unfortunately claimed another life along the way.
Just who that is won’t be revealed here, but it drives the emotions in a movie happy to unleash them at any point, which is often.

This is, after all, a film about the complications that come when a clash of cultures collide in a home so broken, the foundation shakes the moment Kym steps inside.

Some of the movie’s best scenes are, in fact, about this family going through the motions of what they think it means to be a happy family--they laugh so hard at hollow jokes and their few good memories, you know that laughter is doomed to eventually be caught in someone’s throat, which it is.
After all, before long, Kym’s loose mouth and shattered self-esteem are testing the waters to see just where she stands with her family now. To do so, she picks fights, she drops bombs, she sleeps with the best man (also a recovering addict), she needles Rachel and others, she scratches at wounds so deep, they’ll never heal, and she isn’t really surprised to realize that she’s the one doing most of the bleeding.


Grade: B-
Features:
Deleted Scenes
Filmmaker And Cast Commentaries
Cast And Crew Q&A
A Look Behind The Scenes Of Rachel Getting Married
The Wedding Band
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