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Betsy's Wedding (1990)
Directed by Alan Alda
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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.
Rated R | Length 94 minutes
Actors
Alan Alda | Molly Ringwald | Joe Pesci | Catherine O'Hara | Ally Sheedy | Samuel L. Jackson | Madeline Kahn | Anthony LaPaglia | Joey Bishop | Burt Young | Julie Bovasso | Nicolas Coster | Bibi Besch | Dylan Walsh
Viewing History (seen 1 time)
| Date Viewed | Device | Format | Source | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12/18/2011 | TV | Blu-ray | Owned | 3 stars |
| (Average) 3 stars |
Viewing Notes
Somehow I’d missed even the knowledge that this film existed. I suppose when it came out in 1990 it wasn’t really in my wheel house of interest, being more interested in sci-fi (not that anything’s changed really).
BETSY’S WEDDING is amusing enough, in and of itself. It’s not a landmark comedy by any stretch, but there area few one liners here and there that stand out and the cast all does well enough. The problem is the script, which goes from being a FATHER OF THE BRIDE-esque wedding chaos comedy to a fish-out-of-water Mafia comedy; that doesn’t really jive in the second half. That wacky plot rips the heart out of the first half and leaves it dangling until coming back to touch on it and wrap it up.
Alda as director and actor should’ve known better than to do that. BETSY’S WEDDING isn’t all wet, but it is a bit soggy in the middle.
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