Rating: PG
Genre:
Comedy Drama
Release Date: 06/12/2007
SubTitles: English/Espanol
Dubbed: English/French/Espanol
Sound: DDS/DD1
Run Time: 125 Minutes
Flags: Brief Nudity, Adult Situations, Questionable for Children, Adult Language
Distributor/Studio: 20th Century Fox
Robert Altman's over-frenetic
satire on American marriage rituals and hypocrisy concerns the upper-crust marriage between
Dino Corelli (
Desi Arnaz Jr.) and
Muffin Brenner (
Amy Stryker). As the film begins, a senile bishop forgets the lines to the wedding ceremony and
Nettie Sloan (the groom's grandmother) drops dead in an upstairs bedroom.
Nettie's death is not disclosed to the two families who converge at the wedding reception. As the two sets of in-laws slam into each other, the bride and groom disappear in the ensuing whirlwind of chaos as both extended families vie for sexual favors and try to keep hidden never-discussed family secrets.
Regina Corelli (
Nina Van Pallandt) is revealed to be a drug addict, while
Luigi, is endeavoring unsuccessfully to keep his Mafia connections under wraps. Meanwhile, the bride's family, although more down to earth, are revealed to be no better.
Tulip Brenner (
Carol Burnett) begins to flirt with one of the wedding guests,
Mackenzie Goddard (
Pat McCormick), while
Snooks Brenner (
Paul Dooley) acts like a lout and drinks heavily. And flying around the edges of the action like
Tinkerbell is
Buffy Brenner, the Brenners' youngest daughter, who is pregnant by the groom. As other characters bang into each other -- sexual degenerates, hard-nosed radicals, raw-boned emotional wrecks -- the wedding reception heads for its inevitable nuclear explosion.
~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide
