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Rachel Getting Married

Rachel Getting Married isn’t so much about Rachel (Rosemarie DeWitt) although her upcoming nuptials do focus on her psychologically fragile sister Kym (an Oscar bound Anne Hathaway although impossible to ugly up no matter how hard they try). She’s checked herself out of rehab for the weekend to attend Rachel’s fall wedding at the family’s upper middle class Connecticut home now run by her step mother and doting father. She spends the next 3 days blithely upstaging her sister’s big day. This drama queen stirs up plenty of drama as sibling rivalry and the bond of sisterhood duke it out with equal measure. Through all this we find that Kym’s drug problem is at the heart of a family tragedy the residual guilt of which causes a physical slug fest between Kym and her birth mother Abby (the too long absent Deborah Winger). This film has the look and feel of a wedding video which like all wedding videos tends to go on for too long and focus too extensively on extraneous minutia. On the other hand Rachel Getting Married does leave you feeling like you just took part in a really cool wedding.

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