
Longtime couple Alex, a lawyer-turned-struggling-playwright, and Alice, an insecure woman, have recently married and invited several of their couple friends to Alex's parents' cabin in the upstate woods for New Year's Eve: Don and Lynn, a poor writer who would rather come up with crazy thus ultimately-doomed business ideas, married to a domineering lawyer who seems oblivious to her drinking problem; Steven and Eve, a lawyer and his expectant wife who have previously admitted ... (Full plot summary below)
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Longtime couple Alex, a lawyer-turned-struggling-playwright, and Alice, an insecure woman, have recently married and invited several of their couple friends to Alex's parents' cabin in the upstate woods for New Year's Eve: Don and Lynn, a poor writer who would rather come up with crazy thus ultimately-doomed business ideas, married to a domineering lawyer who seems oblivious to her drinking problem; Steven and Eve, a lawyer and his expectant wife who have previously admitted to attending marriage counseling; and businessman Nick, who left his wife Melissa for a much-younger model, Lola, but they have now broken up so Nick arrives alone. All of the guests being their open and not-so-open relationship dysfunctions and set them against Alex and Alice's honeymoon bliss. But the existent cracks in Alex and Alice's marriage have the potential to split wide open with the last-minute addition of British model Helena, whom Alex and Alice know only casually as one of Eve's bridesmaids--whom Alex tried to hit on at the wedding while he was already seriously dating Alice.
Leave your thoughts about Helena from the Wedding.
| BrianOrndorf.comBrian OrndorfThe picture ultimately doesn't end up anywhere, but moments are accounted for nicely, creating a warm bath of razors for those who prefer their onscreen relationships to be as hesitant as possible. |
| Hollywood ReporterJon FroschHelena From the Wedding is written, directed, and played with such verve and deep, unshowy feeling that its insights on these tried-and-true themes come through with rare and startling clarity. |
| VarietyDennis HarveyPacing is brisk, and performances and writing sharp enough to engage throughout. |
| Village VoiceNick PinkertonThe group is frequently drunk, but writer-director Joseph Infantolino's handling is lucid, a necessity to keep up the sense of vague dread and walking-on-eggshell egos. |
| NYC Film CriticEthan AlterThe cast handles the material adequately enough, but writer/director Joseph Infantolino doesn't provide them with anything they (and we) haven't seen played out before. |
| The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisHelena From the Wedding has a little more to offer than many films of its type. |
| New York PostV.A. MusettoNone of its characters is especially interesting. |
| New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierEvery generation gets a "Big Chill," and this tired but well-meaning indie contains many clichés of the "pals-pondering-life" movies that came before. |
| Time OutDavid FearEven by the stultifying standards of everything's-screwed ensemble movies, Joseph Infantolino's thirtysomething drama feels particularly threadbare. |
| Slant MagazineGlenn Heath Jr.Marriage is hell. Matrimony is rife with mistrust, misdeeds, and misconceptions. But you know what's worse? Being single. We get it. |