
Kym Buchman has been in drug rehab for nine months, during which time she has been clean. She is released temporarily from the facility to attend her sister Rachel Buchman's wedding. During her release, Kym is staying at the family home, where the wedding is taking place. As such, it is like Grand Central Station for the duration of Kym's stay, which may not be the most conducive situation for her in constantly being exposed to the watching eyes of those who know and don't ye... (Full plot summary below)
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Kym Buchman has been in drug rehab for nine months, during which time she has been clean. She is released temporarily from the facility to attend her sister Rachel Buchman's wedding. During her release, Kym is staying at the family home, where the wedding is taking place. As such, it is like Grand Central Station for the duration of Kym's stay, which may not be the most conducive situation for her in constantly being exposed to the watching eyes of those who know and don't yet know her, but know of her situation. The reunion with her family members starts off well enough, but issues around Kym's release from rehab quickly surface. Kym and Rachel's father, Paul Buchman, wants to make sure that Kym is all right at all times, which to Kym feels instead like he doesn't trust her. Rachel slowly begins to resent Kym's situation taking over what is supposed to be the happiest day of her life, some of which is directed by Kym, some of which isn't. One person present but largely not included in the last minute wedding planning work is Kym and Rachel's mother, Abby, from who Paul is divorced. The two have since married other people. Outwardly, Abby has been nurturing of Kym throughout her life. However, what is one of the key moments in Kym's drug induced life, and in their collective family's lives, may profoundly affect the wedding. Beyond how Kym's presence affects the wedding, the goings-on of the family during Kym's short stay may either bring them closer together or tear them apart.
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| Charlotte ObserverLawrence ToppmanAlfred Hitchcock once said, "Drama is life with the dull bits left out." Well, Rachel Getting Married is drama with the dull bits left in. |
| NewsBlazeKam WilliamsMost noteworthy for Anne Hathaway's absorbing, Oscar-nominated portrayal of a disturbed soul desperate to control the demons derailing her reality. |
| eFilmCritic.comRob GonsalvesIt's a lovely movie, with abundant charm and no fear of suffering. |
| CinemaBlend.comBrian HolcombThis isn't the kind of melodrama where a happy facade is slowly torn away-the tensions are there from the start and no one has illusions that things are nice and rosy. |
| Los Angeles CityBeatAndy Klein... perfectly calibrates the gradual revealing of the family dynamics, while dragging you through a gamut of strong emotions -- not necessarily the most enjoyable experience. |
| Capital Times (Madison, WI)Rob ThomasThat's the miraculous thing about Demme's beautiful, harrowing, and utterly humane film -- that for long stretches it doesn't feel like a movie at all, but like a document of someone else's real life. |
| Orlando SentinelRoger MooreRachel Getting Married is a magical wallow in excess, a too-happy, too-sad, too-indulgent plunge into an over-planned wedding. |
| Miami HeraldRene RodriguezA portrait of a family reeling with pain and resentment -- and rising to the challenge of dealing with it head-on. |
| eFilmCritic.comPeter SobczynskiThis is not just Demme's most thematically, emotionally and narratively ambitious project since the masterpiece that was "Something Wild," it may well be the best thing that he has done since that film. |
| L.A. WeeklyElla TaylorA middlebrow domestic drama beating its wings against an experimental frame. |