Synopsis
To the amusement of their adult children and friends, long-divorced couple Don and Ellie Griffin are forced to play the happy couple for the sake of their adopted son's wedding after his ultra conservative Catholic biological mother unexpectedly decides to fly halfway across the world to attend. With all of the wedding guests looking on, the Griffins are hilariously forced to confront their past, present and future - and hopefully avoid killing each other in the process.
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Cast
- Robert De NiroDon Griffin
- Diane KeatonEllie Griffin
- Ben BarnesAlejandro 'Alex' Soto Griffin
- Amanda SeyfriedMissy O'Connor
- Susan SarandonBeatrice 'Bebe' McBride
- Katherine HeiglLyla Griffin
- Topher GraceJared Griffin
- Christine EbersoleMuffin O'Connor
- David RascheBarry O'Connor
- Patricia RaeMadonna Soto
Recommendations
- 50
Chicago Sun-Times
There’s not a bad performance in this movie. De Niro, Keaton and Sarandon are particularly good, what a surprise. But it feels as if all the guests at “The Big Wedding” are wearing ID tags telling us their one Plot Point. - 50
Chicago Tribune
The movie's own brand of charm has its subset of smarm. - 50
San Francisco Chronicle
Most of this huge-cast extravaganza is a botched farce. When that doesn't work, it turns sentimental. The presence of liked and familiar actors helps make it watchable, but there is no disguising that this is a weak, badly constructed comedy. At least it's short. - 50
Philadelphia Inquirer
No one is bad in The Big Wedding, but no one is remotely believable, either. - 40
NPR
Zackham's film feels as plastic as a cake topper — and just as hard to digest. - 40
Variety
The film isn’t so much funny as it is merely amusing — a laundry list of inappropriate and potentially embarrassing moments that strive mightily, but never quite manage to land the laugh. - 30
Arizona Republic
There is nothing about the movie that isn’t utterly predictable. You meet a character, and it’s immediately obvious what’s going to happen to him (or her). And then it happens. Maybe it’s meant to make you feel good about your deductive reasoning skills or something. But mostly it just makes you want to see something else. - 25
Boston Globe
Quaint and crass get together — or would that be “bump uglies”? — with awkward, thoroughly flat results in The Big Wedding, an ensemble comedy with a tonal cluelessness as surprising as the name cast that signed on for it anyway.
