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Rachel Getting Married Hot

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Rated R
Time 113 minutes
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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.


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It's not always fun to witness a bevy of messy family dynamics unfold on screen--most people have enough of their own dilemmas to take care of at home--but director Jonathan Demme (Silence of the Lambs, Philadelphia, Neil Young: Heart of Gold) manages to deliver the bittersweet realities plaguing one family in Rachel Getting Married with such grace it's hard not to be drawn into his spell--and care about the outcome of his characters' dilemmas.

Demme's work here is sublime. He offers a rich, powerful odyssey about one woman trying to come to terms with her past, her unstable emotions and the family she so desperately wants to connect with. That woman is Kym, played to winning ends by Anne Hathaway. (Watch for an Oscar nomination.)

Kym leaves rehab for the weekend to attend her sister, Rachel's (Rosemarie DeWitt) wedding. From the minute she arrives back home, she's at a tug-of-war with her emotions. It's acceptance she craves. And love, too. Toss in a thirst for understanding and forgiveness and Kym is walking TNT. But what Kym wants is downright universal. One can hardly blame her, but how she goes about attaining all the love she believes she needs sends a curious ripple effect through all the wedding festivities.

We're not privy to Kym's real dilemma at first. All that we know is that she did something, it effected her and her family in a major way, and now that some time has passed, everybody seems to have dealt with the fact that they've dealt with it as best they can.

They're in for a big surprise.

Demme purposely films this moving wedding portrait with detached vigilance. Often using handheld cameras, he creates a personal experience and an opportunity for his audience to feel as if they've actually been invited to the wedding. In a way, he makes us feel as if we're part of the family, too. (On some deeper level, we probably are.) Each of scenes build so wonderfully upon the previous. I'd compare the experience to an opera, where you can feel the powerful crescendos heading your way.

One monumental moment involves Kym and the acceptance speech she delivers at the wedding rehearsal dinner. From the get-go it's evident that for as much internal work as Kym has been doing, there's so much more to do. The scene is one of the best in the movie--an uncomfortable, tragic diatribe laced with inside 12-step jokes, desperation and a bundle of raw nerves that it will make your neck hair stand on end. And Hathaway is mesmerizing in every second of it.

There are two other scenes that warrant a mention. The first one takes place in a 12-step meeting where Kym shares her dilemma. This isn't your average "share." What Kym experienced in the past is downright heartbreaking and while it was the result of her own addicted state, one can see the huge emotional toll it's taken on her soul.

The other scene happens between Kym and her mother (Debra Winger). When Kym prods her mother about the "event" that tore the family in two, her mother doesn't want to deal with it. It only takes one more question from Kym to send everything spinning out of control. Winger is one of the best actresses in the business. Clearly, her long Hollywood sabbatical didn't change that. What happens next sends the film rolling in new direction, one that finds Kym, quite by accident perhaps, coming to terms with her own life and her place in within her family's.

As for the actual wedding--yes, we do get to see that--it's a remarkable experience to witness. You can't help but wonder if Demme is sending us a powerful message. He seems to be saying that no matter how screwed up we all can be, at any given time, somehow, at the end of the day, anything can be tempered with love--but not fixed.

Embrace this well-crafted gem.
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Reviewed by Greg Archer
November 06, 2008
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful
This film is painful and rewarding. I found it painful not because it shows physical atrocities, but because it shows Kim (Anne Hathaway), a drug addict on leave from rehabilitation to attend her sister's wedding not being able to communicate with others. Then I saw that she was just a reflection of the inability to communicate in her family and the inability we all have in greater or lesser degrees or different ways in our own lives. I think that we all are given the test of feeling alienated or in a milder way of not feeling empathy or being willing to put ourselves in another person's shoes. This movie gives each of the chance to work on that test once again. And to the extent that we do that as result of the movie, we get a big reward.

At first I identified with Kim, then I sided with the other members of her family against her, because she was rocking the boat. Then I was irritated with all the characters and the constant violin playing music. Then my heart opened for everybody and the human condition. I experienced love for all the characters. I was there with them as they went through all the way to the ending that was not a happy one in the conventional sense.

My daughter, Sandy Bartu, saw the movie before my wife, Sarah, and I saw it and said that she was saying to herself during the movie something that she normally doesn't think about during a movie: "Please, may this movie not have a happy ending where all the lose ends are brought together." And her wish was granted with an ending that signified life going on. The movie tells you that we all need to go on and deal with the tests in our lives with the grace that is just under the surface.

This is a little bit of a spoiler, so don't read on if you want to be completely surprised. This movie is rich in a real life feel to it, from the jerky camera movements when Kim is going through her difficult times to the way the sisters and Rachel's friend jockey for position. One poignant exemplar for this is the way Rachel (Rosemary Dewitt in excellent support as was the rest of the cast) goes back into the house at the end after Rachel leaves does a little jump, I thought, for joy. For me it meant that she, without being conscious about it and in spite of just having said a warm goodbye to her sister, was relieved to have her out of her life, even it meant that her sister had to go back to being institutionalized.

That combination of cruelty and love makes this movie rewarding and great. If you want an experience of life that will affect your life for the better, make you think and begin to communicate with others better, see this movie.
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