Synopsis
Offbeat fashion student Betsy Hopper and her straight-laced investment-banker fiancé Jake Lovell just want an intimate little wedding reception, but Betsy's father Eddie, a Long Island construction contractor, feels so threatened by Jake's rich WASP parents that he blows the ceremony up into a bank-breaking showpiece, sending his wife Lola into a financial panic.
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Cast
- Alan AldaEddie Hopper
- Molly RingwaldBetsy Hopper
- Joe PesciOscar Henner
- Catherine O'HaraGloria Henner
- Ally SheedyConnie Hopper
- Samuel L. JacksonTaxi Dispatcher (Mickey)
- Madeline KahnLola Hopper
- Anthony LaPagliaStevie Dee
- Joey BishopEddie's Father
- Burt YoungGeorgie
Recommendations
- 80
Variety
Setting a buoyant, anything-could-happen tone from the outset, Alda as director creates what he’s striving for: a feeling of being caught up in the warm craziness of this family, as all its vivid characters push and tug to impose their will on the proceedings. His punchy, inpertinent script is equally good. - 75
Entertainment Weekly
The film gently sends up the messiness of modern matrimony, and Alda has assembled an appealing group of actors and given them plenty of breathing room. - 75
Boston Globe
Alda's work as a writer on M*A*S*H didn't go to waste. His script delivers a lot of laughs - patently related to TV sitcom, but laughs all the same. Betsy's Wedding is fun, and LaPaglia is a find. [22 Jun 1990, p.43p] - 70
Time Out
Alda's skill is with witty, fast-talking patter and in coaxing fine performances from his actors (playing an extended family of gently caricatured New York types). The values are bollocks, but the film is fun. - 50
Chicago Sun-Times
It's nice enough, it's sweet, I loved LaPaglia's work, but there's nothing compelling here. - 50
Washington Post
Betsy's Wedding is white cake and warm bubbly, not an unsuitable marriage, just a tepid one. - 50
Los Angeles Times
The cast is fine; Alda’s casts invariably are, but this collection has only stick figures to play. - 40
Empire
Most of the people who see this will own funnier home videos of wedding disasters.
