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Rachel Getting Married
A young woman who has been in and out from rehab for the past 10 years returns home for the weekend for her sister's wedding.
2008 · Directed by Jonathan Demme · 113 min · Drama · Romance · Screenplay in the scene database · 17 frames
Tagline
The perfect weekend for a wedding… but the storm is coming.
Plot
Kym Buchman is released from rehab for a few days to attend her older sister Rachel's wedding at their childhood home. While friends and family prepare for the festivities, Kym struggles to reintegrate with them, as her history of substance abuse has made her the black sheep of the family.
Despite Kym's nine months of sobriety, her father Paul is uncomfortable with her driving, leading her to bike to a mandated drug test and Narcotics Anonymous meeting. She returns home and is introduced to Rachel's fiancé Sidney and his best man Kieran. Recognizing each other from the meeting, Kym and Kieran have sex, and he reveals that Rachel's best friend Emma will be her maid of honor. Kym confronts her sister, and it becomes clear that Kym's self-destructive behavior has caused a deep rift between them.
Rachel resents the attention her sister is drawing away from the wedding, exacerbated by Kym's behavior at the rehearsal dinner: amid toasts from friends and family, Kym awkwardly jokes about her addiction and "makes amends" with Rachel and others in the gathering for her past actions, as part of her twelve-step program. Later Rachel, angry at what she thinks is Kym's insincere and inappropriate "amends", erupts at Kym and the two engage in an intense argument, which Rachel ends by announcing she is pregnant, to the delight of everyone but Kym.
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Crew
- Written by: Jenny Lumet
- Cinematography: Declan Quinn
- Edited by: Tim Squyres
- Music: Zafer Tawil, Donald Harrison Jr.
- Production design: Ford Wheeler
- Produced by: Jonathan Demme, Marc Platt, Neda Armian
Cast
- Anne Hathaway as Kym Buchman
- Rosemarie DeWitt as Rachel Buchman
- Bill Irwin as Paul Buchman
- Debra Winger as Abby Buchman
- Tunde Adebimpe as Sidney Williams
- Mather Zickel as Kieran
- Anna Deavere Smith as Carol
- Anisa George as Emma
- Robyn Hitchcock as Wedding Guest
- 'Sister' Carol East as Wedding Guest
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Clinica Estetico, Marc Platt Productions, Sony Pictures Classics
- Budget: $12,000,000
- Box office: $16,937,968
- Themes: sibling relationship, drug addiction, sister, connecticut, interracial marriage, drug rehabilitation, wedding, maid of honor, sister sister relationship, rehearsal dinner
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