
Sam has roped his friend Marshall into going on a weekend outing. Marshall thinks the trip is about re-establishing their friendship, while Sam has ulterior motives - namely, trying to win back Zoe, a woman he loves. Sam talks his way into getting them invited to a party at a beach house where Zoe is getting married to Whit. While Marshall goes through all the emotions of deceit, like anger, depression and acceptance, Sam is trying all of the angles in trying to win Zoe back.... (Full plot summary below)
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Sam has roped his friend Marshall into going on a weekend outing. Marshall thinks the trip is about re-establishing their friendship, while Sam has ulterior motives - namely, trying to win back Zoe, a woman he loves. Sam talks his way into getting them invited to a party at a beach house where Zoe is getting married to Whit. While Marshall goes through all the emotions of deceit, like anger, depression and acceptance, Sam is trying all of the angles in trying to win Zoe back.
Leave your thoughts about Ceremony.
| Entertainment WeeklyChris NashawatyYes, it's been done before (and better). But Uma lends it a sly and sexy spark. |
| Shockya.comBrent SimonWell acted, with plenty of color around its edges, Ceremony too often dawdles and dissembles when it should be digging deeper. Still, the performances make it connect, even though Winkler seems to have an aversion to catharsis. |
| Village VoiceNick PinkertonCeremony is a callow movie: Winkler exhibits no comprehension of the class anxieties he addresses, and extends precocity into adulthood. That callowness is Ceremony's subject scarcely makes it funnier. |
| Ozus' World Movie ReviewsDennis SchwartzIt's only funny because its putrid dialogue is so unfunny that it drags flies. |
| KPBS.orgBeth AccomandoIn the end, Ceremony shows occasional promise but mostly pretense. But at least it knows when to wrap up the party and go home. |
| BrianOrndorf.comBrian OrndorfDoesn't offer anything worth the time invested, issuing derivative characters and tuneless situations of longing coated with an ineffective layer of crooked whimsy that often acts like salt in the wound. |
| JWRS. James WeggZoe's heartfelt declaration 'I can't be your mermaid,' succinctly sums up the entire situation. |
| Philadelphia Daily NewsGary ThompsonIn "Ceremony," a Wes Anderson impersonator attempts a version of "Wedding Crashers," and it's about as bad as you might think. |
| Boxoffice MagazineTodd GilchristIf you're a fan of upper-crust New England intellectuals or one of them yourself, Ceremony is probably your perfect movie. |
| Philadelphia WeeklySean BurnsThe problem here is that I wanted to murder the protagonist. |