Mjeteconer Just perfect...

Console best movie i've ever seen.

Afouotos Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

Nicole I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

cinemajesty Film Review: "Rachel Getting Married" (2008)Director Jonathan Demme (1944-2017) gives into documentary-composed cinematography in this film about the character of Kym, portrayed in break-out fashion and chain-smoking on the plain actress Anne Hathaway, who gives in to every beat to be the black sheep in the herd of a family celebrating the older sister's wedding, title-given character of Rachel, performed by decent appearing actress Rosemarie DeWitt, which stays uneventful through a screenplay originally written by Jenny Lumet, who finds one major tension point for the audience, watching the character of Kym's distress in witnessing honor speeches in a tight stuffed of invited wedding guests before releasing her pressure through sex with a stranger, degrading her sister in public and crashing a car, which may keep the audience going up to 85 Minutes due to a demanding performance by Anne Hathaway, but not for the whole 100 minutes plus running time on this one, where the director of a motion picture classic as "The Silence Of The Lambs" (1991) and even the fairly suspenseful remake of "The Manchurian Candidate" (2004) can not hide the fact that "Rachel Getting Married" has turned out a disappointment in every cinematic sense of the way.© 2017 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)

thelilodian First, the positives of the film ... there was only one - Kim (Anne Hathaway). I found her completely adorable in every way, and I was totally able to relate to her troubles fitting in with the rest of the "normal" people. I wanted to just reach into the film and hug her and tell her that I understood her pain. Even though she stole some of the thunder from her sister's wedding, that is nothing compared to the pain she has been through in life, so she absolutely deserves to be forgiven and shown all the love there is. Her family disappoints her in every possible way, so I hate them all.The rest of it was pretty much all bad: Like others have said, I also felt like beheading the violinist. I would chop off his arms first, though, so that the violin stops producing noise.I was also annoyed by the amount of on screen time devoted to the other obnoxious idiots ... friends/extended family.The father character "Paul" needs male genitals. I agree that he is way too emotional and/or soft. How he babies his daughters is annoying.I agree that the movie tries WAY TOO HARD to seem multicultural, and this detracts from the main message being portrayed - Kim's troubled relationship with her family. Black and White marriage ? Check. Stereotypical Indian music, clothing, and food ? Check (I'm Indian, so I know about Indian culture). Completely mispronounced Indian words ? Check.Why couldn't they just show a conventional wedding and focus on the family dynamic a bit (no, a LOT) more.Too much time devoted to meaningless BS - 10 minutes on loading the dishwasher ??? Are you friggin kidding me ?In summary, this is a film worth watching if you can relate to Kim's story. If not, you will either be annoyed by Kim's character or just consider this movie a plain waste of time.

braddugg A wonderful little film that breaks the shackles of commercial cinema and gives us meaningful cinemaIt was nice to see the whole film revolving around a marriage Marriage process is shown in great detail, it begins with the marriage preparations and ends once marriage is over. That is, it begins with Kym's (Anne Hathway) return to home and her going back to rehab The movie, as the name states is about Kym's sister Rachel (Rosemarie Dewitt) getting married, yet its mostly about what happens with Kym all through. So, Kym is our protagonist and she is bad for her past and better for her future. She is from a rehab of drugs, thus a drug addict, she was the reason for her brother's death and for a few other bad deeds. OK, so how will you judge a character as this. Her, mother acts as the judge at times and though, it's not all right, it's all natural.The beauty of the script itself here is showing us how we behave and how irrational we can be with our own prejudices. Sometimes, we miss the whole point by judging someone too early.Now, before I may squeeze out a few important terms, let me tell you one thing, don't expect a climax, don't expect a beginning, don't expect big background score and not the proper cinematography either. It's all done un-cinematically and yet done very wonderfully. Camera is hand held, and the noise is natural and mostly live recording and even songs like "Unknown Legend" (one of my favs) is sung naturally. Now, I like this kind of cinema that shows us that what we need more than a camera, the technology and those gorgeously made up actors is a script, a story that is worth telling and if told in a way natural as this, it may be mostly be liked, if not for the normal commercial movie goers but for a niche audience who are looking for a different kind of cinema. Though, I believe that this has been considered a great work in independent cinema and has it's own place there.I liked the costumes, the whole wedding that takes place in an Indian style, we have Anne Hathway in a saree and that is great to see. Now, the whole cast did a great job in acting and Anne Hathway stood out in her performance as Kym. Wish, she garnered more awards.All in all, it's a cinema for those who love cinema and a 4/5 for a movie that you like only if you have patience to sit through the whole wedding of not yours but someone else, who is unrelated to you.

The_late_Buddy_Ryan Hard to believe that it's been five years since Jonathan Demme's last full-length fiction film, now available for streaming on Amazon Prime. This time around, we were struck by how powerful and affecting the ensemble scenes are—the rehearsal dinner, the ceremony itself, even the much-maligned dishwasher-loading contest. These sequences feel like a kind of virtual reality in which we're not just emotionally engaged as spectators but almost physically present as participants. They were so effective, in fact, that the scenes that took place in less crowded rooms and explored the conflict between the sisters—serene bride-to-be Rachel and shattered, attention-hungry Kym—started to seem like a distraction, even though the script was just about perfect (also hard to believe this was Jenny Lumet's first produced screenplay) and the performances could hardly have been better. Ever since "Something Wild," Demme's been crazy for world music and multiculture, and in "Rachel…" every time you look around, somebody's plucking on an oud or sawing out a modal tune on a fiddle. Loved it! (Also loved the scene where Anna Deavere Smith tells them to knock it off.) Didn't mind the twitchy, crazed-wedding-videographer-in-everyone's-face camera-work. Clearly the dancing and festivating goes on for quite a while (though be honest now, what's a wedding reception without a samba troupe and break dancing?); maybe JD felt we had to experience a bit of celebratory burnout before the subdued, melancholy tone of the final scenes. The boho excesses of Rachel's family and the overstuffed production may give snarks and quibblers a lot to complain about, but all in all "Rachel…" is a brilliant, soulful film that should give you as much pleasure to remember as it does to experience.