Rachel Getting Married
Director: Jonathan Demme
Genre: Romance Film, Indie, Family Drama, Ensemble Film, Drama
Year: 2008
Country: United States of America
Language: English Language
Starring: Rosemarie DeWitt, Anna Deavere Smith, Bill Irwin, Anne Hathaway, Debra Winger, Beau Sia, Sebastian Stan, Mather Zickel, Babatunde Adebimpe, Roslyn Ruff, Dorian Missick, Anisa George, Jerome LePage
Rachel Getting Married is a 2008 drama film directed by Jonathan Demme, and starring Anne Hathaway, Rosemarie DeWitt, Bill Irwin and Debra Winger. The film was released in the U.S. to select theaters on October 3, 2008. The film opened the 65th Venice International Film Festival. The film also opened in Canada's Toronto Film Festival on September 6, 2008. Hathaway was nominated for Academy Award for Best Actress for her role, but lost to Kate Winslet in The Reader.
Kym (Hathaway) is released from rehab for a few days so she can go home to attend the wedding of her sister Rachel (DeWitt). At home, the atmosphere is strained between Kym and her family members as they struggle to reconcile themselves with her past and present. Kym's father shows intense concern for her well-being and whereabouts, which Kym interprets as mistrust. She also resents her sister's choice of her best friend Emma (Anisa George), rather than Kym, to be her maid of honor. Rachel, for her part, resents the attention her sister's drug addiction is drawing away from her wedding, a resentment that comes to a head at the rehearsal dinner, where Kym, amid toasts from friends and family, takes the microphone to offer
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