Rachel Getting Married
Director: Jonathan Demme
Country: USA
North American Premiere
Synopsis: When Kym (Anne Hathaway) returns to the Buchman family home for the wedding of her sister Rachel (Rosemarie DeWitt), she brings a long history of personal crisis and family conflict along with her. The wedding party’s abundant cast of friends and relations has gathered for an idyllic weekend of feasting, music and love, but Kymwith her black-comic one-liners and knack for bombshell dramais a catalyst for long-simmering tensions in the family dynamic. Filled with the rich and eclectic characters that have always been a hallmark of Jonathan Demme’s films, Rachel Getting Married paints a strikingly perceptive and sometimes hilarious family portrait. Director Demme, first-time writer Jenny Lumet and the stellar acting ensemble leaven the drama of these difficult but compelling people with wry affection and generosity of spirit. Rachel Getting Married is a Sony Pictures Classics presentation and will be distributed in Canada by Mongrel Media.
