Rachel Getting Married is a tense look at a dysfunctional family coming together around a wedding. This is a Anne Hathaway Showcase. It is certainly an award winning performance of a woman tormented by the past, and daily fighting the daemon alcohol...
- 10.January.2011
- |
- by: Netflowers
- Netflowers rated this movie
 0/10
Rachel Getting Married is a tense look at a dysfunctional family coming together around a wedding. This is a Anne Hathaway Showcase. It is certainly an award winning performance of a woman tormented by the past, and daily fighting the daemon alcohol and the daemon drug. Kym out of rehab for the weekend to go to her sisters' wedding must face every one of her daemons. It is a heart-tugging watch, not a tearjerker but exhausting, also because it is a wedding it is a celebration, and it is beautiful to watch. I loved this movie and I highly recommend it.
- 10.January.2011
- |
- by: Netflowers
What did you think about this review?
Thank you for voting.
Abuse report sent
Report abuse
Close
|
A slice of life film covering a weekend with a family, one of whose two daughters is getting married, and the other is getting sprung from rehab for the occasion. A lot of the scenes are unpleasant or boring (just like real life) and go on long...
- 24.July.2010
- |
- by: DukeofOmnium
- DukeofOmnium rated this movie0/10
A slice of life film covering a weekend with a family, one of whose two daughters is getting married, and the other is getting sprung from rehab for the occasion. A lot of the scenes are unpleasant or boring (just like real life) and go on long after you stop caring about them (just like real life). The dishwasher scene is a perfect example: interesting to the participants, but tedious to an outsider. The film's success is due almost entirely to Anne Hathaway's uncanny performance as Kym, the addict. She captures the essential narcissism and self-pity of the addict -- even the recovering addict -- almost perfectly. I've known a lot of people like Kym. The rest of the cast is strong, as well. Overall, the film should have been tightened, either in the script or in the editing: as Hitchcock once said, "Drama is life with the dull bits cut out", but this movie doesn't cut them out.
- 24.July.2010
- |
- by: DukeofOmnium
What did you think about this review?
Thank you for voting.
Abuse report sent
Report abuse
Close
|
This is the best movie I've seen in a very long time. The extremely emotional content was layered and real, and using the wedding weekend as a backdrop for all these mood swings (mostly low) was a touch of genius. I have totally rethought my opinion...
- 16.July.2010
- |
- by: sharkycharming
- sharkycharming rated this movie0/10
This is the best movie I've seen in a very long time. The extremely emotional content was layered and real, and using the wedding weekend as a backdrop for all these mood swings (mostly low) was a touch of genius. I have totally rethought my opinion of Anne Hathaway. And Robyn Hitchcock is in it -- can't get much cooler than that.
- 16.July.2010
- |
- by: sharkycharming
What did you think about this review?
Thank you for voting.
Abuse report sent
Report abuse
Close
|
Great characters
It was the vivid characters and believable family dynamics that really made this movie for me.
- 04.January.2010
- |
- by: Phoebe Spanier
- Phoebe Spanier rated this movie
 8/10Great
Great characters
It was the vivid characters and believable family dynamics that really made this movie for me.
- 04.January.2010
- |
- by: Phoebe Spanier
What did you think about this review?
Thank you for voting.
Abuse report sent
Report abuse
Close
|
I enjoyed this enough until the wedding. Or the pre-wedding. I'm not sure what it was. It was the painful hip opposite of saccharine - there were jam bands and beat poets and designer clothes and everybody getting down - and it was much too cool for...
- 23.July.2009
- |
- by: Michael Cain
- Michael Cain rated this movie0/10
I enjoyed this enough until the wedding. Or the pre-wedding. I'm not sure what it was. It was the painful hip opposite of saccharine - there were jam bands and beat poets and designer clothes and everybody getting down - and it was much too cool for me to endure for long.
- 23.July.2009
- |
- by: Michael Cain
What did you think about this review?
Thank you for voting.
Abuse report sent
Report abuse
Close
|
I gave this movie a chance and sat through it. It was easily one of the most suspenseful movies I think I have ever seen since each of the characters is so completely unlikeable that I found myself sitting on the edge of my seat waiting for each...
- 17.July.2009
- |
- by: nominal
- nominal rated this movie2/10Bad
I gave this movie a chance and sat through it. It was easily one of the most suspenseful movies I think I have ever seen since each of the characters is so completely unlikeable that I found myself sitting on the edge of my seat waiting for each inevitable disaster! Unfortunately the movie never seems to deliver misfortune in the quantities I was hoping for, largely due to a distinct lack of pterodactyls and nuclear holocaust. The one character who managed not to be intolerably annoying is probably Rachel's beau and his sole saving grace is that he manages to go almost the entire movie without saying anything. When the opportunity finally arrives for him to take the spotlight, what does he do? Belts out a Neal Young song. Wait, what's that keening sound in the distance? It's the sound of Malcom X screaming as he claws his way from the grave. Sound fun yet? Okay let's take 113 minutes of a self-absorbed druggie attempting to make absolutely every situation about her and add some guy with violin who manages to screech his way into nearly every scene! I can still hear him playing those same three notes from the pivotal dishwasher loading scene and it was almost a week ago that I watched this movie OH GOD PLEASE MAKE IT STOP PLEASE I BEG YOU. And yes, I did say dishwasher loading scene. On the surface this sounds like something extremely boring that no one would ever pay money to sit through. In this movie: it's a welcome break. I wish the dish washing scene was 113 minutes long.
- 17.July.2009
- |
- by: nominal
What did you think about this review?
Thank you for voting.
Abuse report sent
Report abuse
Close
|
People writing bad reviews of this movie are idiots and don't know how movies work, don't know how to watch movies, and don't know what movies are for.
- 01.May.2009
- |
- by: sethdellinger
- sethdellinger rated this movie0/10
People writing bad reviews of this movie are idiots and don't know how movies work, don't know how to watch movies, and don't know what movies are for.
- 01.May.2009
- |
- by: sethdellinger
What did you think about this review?
Thank you for voting.
Abuse report sent
Report abuse
Close
|
- 03.April.2009
- |
- by: burf
- burf rated this movie2/10Bad
Get a tripod, bozo!
What did you think about this review?
Thank you for voting.
Abuse report sent
Report abuse
Close
|
The first movie i've seen in a really long time that made me cry, and also made me consider getting married again some day. and made me want to call my brother, and dance, and sing, and be alive all over again. Amazing.
- 19.March.2009
- |
- by: joehobson
- joehobson rated this movie0/10
The first movie i've seen in a really long time that made me cry, and also made me consider getting married again some day. and made me want to call my brother, and dance, and sing, and be alive all over again. Amazing.
- 19.March.2009
- |
- by: joehobson
What did you think about this review?
Thank you for voting.
Abuse report sent
Report abuse
Close
|
Mood:
Plot:
Genres:
Time/Period:
Place:
Praise:
Style:
Attitudes:
Does this gene fit Rachel Getting Married?
