Rachel Getting Married

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  • Opened October 3, 2008 
  • 1 hr 51 min
  • R | language and brief sexuality
  • Parents: Common Sense Media says Iffy for 16+. More on child suitability

  • 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 have gathered for an idyllic weekend of feasting, music and love, but Kym — with her black-humor and knack for bombshell drama — is a catalyst for long-simmering tensions in the family dynamic. Full synopsis

  • Cast: Anne Hathaway, Rosemarie DeWitt, Bill Irwin, Tunde Adebimpe, Debra Winger
  • Director: Jonathan Demme
  • Genres: Art House/Foreign, Comedy, Drama

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New York Daily News
| Elizabeth Weitzman

A film that is both deceptively modest and deeply resonant. Read full review

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Chicago Sun-Times
| Roger Ebert

A friend asked: "Wouldn't you love to attend a wedding like that?" In a way, I felt I had. Yes, I began to feel absorbed in the experience. A few movies can do that, can slip you out of your mind and into theirs. Read full review

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Entertainment Weekly
| Owen Gleiberman

A triumph -- Demme's finest work since "The Silence of the Lambs," and a movie that tingles with life. Read full review

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Rolling Stone
| Peter Travers

The acting is of the highest caliber. Winger, magnificent and too long between films, is a volcano of repressed anger. Read full review

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Debra Winger as Abby in "Rachel Getting Married."