jesi_r_77 This movie is nothing as it is described in the plot trailer... I couldn't take any more of the insanity of untruths after only 34 min I had to turn it off, it just made me aggravated

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)

gavin6942 A young woman (Anne Hathaway) who has been in and out of rehab for the past ten years, returns home for the weekend for her sister's wedding.For the life of me, I have no idea why this film was praised so much and especially the praise for Anne Hathaway. I find her performance to be just "blah" and really nothing special when it is supposed to be an incredible Oscar-worthy portrayal of a recovering addict.What made me most disappointed by the film, though, is just how much filler it has. Scenes run on far too long. Do we need multiple scenes of people dancing at the wedding? How many toasts do we need at the rehearsal? It seems like any attempt to have a plot is drowned out by conversations or events that really do not matter.

black-and-gold I don't write reviews often but I feel compelled to write one for this movie because I loved it and I hated it. I loved how much thought had been put into each of the characters. There was a depth to each one of them and many of them were mysterious, causing you to feel like you wanted to know so much more about them. This of course is partly down to the acting. What a great cast! Anne Hathaway is brilliant in the role of Kym, probably the most convincing I have seen her. Some reviews I've read have said that she plays a very unlikable character but I disagree. If you follow the film you actually understand a lot about why she is the way she is and I felt a lot of empathy for her. Debra Winger is fantastic as the distant mother, it makes you want to kick her! The guy who plays Kieran also did a great job as a very likable character. I wish we could see more movies where the characters are this real and fascinating. Despite all of this I just couldn't get over the things that let this movie down. First of all the music throughout the movie was annoying most of the time, mainly because of the shrill violin. Perhaps this was done on purpose, if that's the case it certainly works but it makes the movie harder to watch. Also some of the scenes are unnecessarily drawn out. I would have much preferred finding out more about the characters instead. I also found the ending unsatisfactory. Over all, I don't regret having watched this movie. If you like movies that look at the rawness of relationships with in-depth character study you will enjoy it but, you may not love it.