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Rachel Getting Married [DVD] [2009]

Anne Hathaway , Debra Winger , Jonathan Demme    Suitable for 15 years and over   DVD
2.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
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Product details

  • Actors: Anne Hathaway, Debra Winger
  • Directors: Jonathan Demme
  • Format: Subtitled, PAL
  • Language: English
  • Subtitles: Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, Hindi, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish
  • Dubbed: Catalan, Italian, Spanish
  • Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired: English
  • Audio Description: English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 1.85:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
  • DVD Release Date: 29 Jun 2009
  • Run Time: 108 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B001Q3M38W
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 27,345 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)

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Pitched between Robert Altman's A Wedding and Noah Baumbach's Margot at the Wedding--but more cautiously optimistic than both--Rachel Getting Married marks a change in course for director Jonathan Demme. Granted, few Oscar winners have walked a more diverse path. After a series of documentaries and remakes, the Silence of the Lambs helmer tries his hand at the intimate chamber drama. With the help of actress Anne Hathaway and screenwriter Jenny Lumet, daughter of filmmaker Sidney, he pulls it off. The festivities kick into high gear once Kym (Hathaway, with smeared eyeliner and unkempt hair) takes a break from rehab for her sister's big day. It soon transpires that Kym, who hides her wounded soul behind a veil of sarcasm, serves as the Buchman's resident black sheep. The problem goes deeper than drugs to a tragedy in which she played a part. As Kym, bride Rachel (Mad Men's Rosemary DeWitt), their parents (Bill Irwin and Debra Winger), groom Sidney (TV on the Radio's Tunde Adebimpe), and the rest of the bohemian Connecticut brood struggle with the past, the nuptials continue, graced by performances from past Demme collaborators like Sister Carol East (Something Wild) and Robyn Hitchcock (Storefront Hitchcock). The hours between reception and after-party contain humor, affection, and painful revelations. In the press notes, Demme claims that he and cinematographer Declan Quinn (In America) attempted to make a film that looked like "The most beautiful home movie ever made." Using handheld cameras and believably flawed characters, they've done just that. --Kathleen C. Fennessy

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Product Description

A young woman (Anne Hathaway) who has been in and out from rehab for the past 10 years returns home for the weekend for her sister's wedding.

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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Rachel Getting Married 28 Jan 2010
By Spider Monkey HALL OF FAME TOP 500 REVIEWER
Format:DVD
`Rachel Getting Married' is a film about a family planning a wedding (for Rachel!) when her sister, Kym, comes out of rehab for the nuptials and quickly ruffles some feathers. In fact this film is more about Kym than Rachel, despite the title. I have rarely seen Anne Hathaway act better than this and she plays the narcissistic, damaged and fragile Kym perfectly. There is a real bohemian, slightly hippy feel about the film, with the jazz music, freeform wedding vows and hand held camera style of direction. This feels like a home movie in places and is all the better for it. Some scenes (like parts of the rehearsal dinner and the dancing scene at the wedding) feel like they were partially improvised and the chemistry is potent whether they were scripted or not. In the trailer this was kind of portrayed as a kooky comedy, and whilst there are some funny moments, it is a lot darker than I was expecting and had some real emotional scenes. There is tragedy here mixed in with the joy of the wedding. This was a surprising film and one that slipped under the radar when first at the cinema and whilst it may not be a barrel of laughs, it is excellently acted, written and directed and makes for just under 2 hours enjoyable viewing.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Blu-ray
***CONTAINS AVERAGE SIZED SPOILERS***

A very self-indulgent movie that could really do with being edited down from 108 minutes to 80.

Many parts that don't warrant more than minimal attention are often handed many minutes to play out. The sprawling concert with many acts, the rehearsal speeches that go on and on, the dish washer loading scene is way too long and the film constantly comes to a halt for boring musical performances. If they edited the dancing, singing and music playing down to only what is needed to give a solid impression of it then the film would easily lose more than ten minutes.

The first 40 minutes are pretty boring and uninvolving. Then suddenly after the way overlong rehearsal speeches the movie becomes a really good melodrama as the sisters argue. The next 35 minutes are very compelling and dramatic (from the speech argument to the car crash) with lots happening. Then with the wedding itself, the last 30 minutes, it was back to the earlier boring, indulgent, mundane crap.

The plotless dancing went on so long I had to fast-forward at x6 speed to get it over with.

The problem with these quasi-documentary monster central character movies is that they try to be grounded in realism. Which restrains them and leads them into not making the character monstrous enough to justify a whole film about them (Greenberg [2010] and Margot At The Wedding [2007] suffer from this). The Kym character is interestingly messed up and monstrous enough to justify having a movie based on her.

The handheld bumpy camera work was okay, and not as contrived and as disjointedly edited as I expected.

A very flawed movie with too many self-indulgent passages (did the groom have to sing so much of that song at the alter?) but that central section made it worth watching. Overall it's below average with a rather slight and indifferent story by the end, but the good bits are properly good.

Margot At The Wedding, which I think is very, very similar, is probably slightly better than Rachel Getting Married by being more consistently watchable. This movie just really needs to be edited down as there is a much better film lost in all that boring bloat.
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By P Wild
Format:DVD
This film was so boring, pointless and self absorbed that I actually fast forwarded it from the half-way point in order to reach the end to avoid slipping into a coma. I didn't even think it worthy of a second screening so then gave it to an animal charity shop.

I am a keen film buff and I pride myself on never having walked out of a film at the cinema or abandoning a film watched at home. I always try and find something to focus my interest on but this film was utterly tedious. It was terrible to see Debra Winger in a film like this.

If you like Anne Hathaway (and I do) watch "The Devil Wears Prada" instead.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
1.0 out of 5 stars An amateur with a camcorder filmed this
Possibly the most uninteresting film I have ever seen about a rehab returning home and the preparation of her sister's marriage. Read more
Published 24 months ago by Adam Cooper
1.0 out of 5 stars The worst film ever??
Never written a review before but this was so bad would hate anybody else to waste their money or even their time watching. Read more
Published on 12 Dec 2010 by K. Hidderley
1.0 out of 5 stars Boring human drama
This movie is an extremely well acted boring human drama. I usually figure that when the viewer understands what is going on then the movie should move on to what's next, but oh... Read more
Published on 19 Jun 2010 by Joburble
5.0 out of 5 stars A slice of Kym Buchman's life
Considering the negative comments posted on Amazon, I am surprised that Rachel getting married got such a rough reception and managed to upset so many viewers. Read more
Published on 25 May 2010 by Omnes
4.0 out of 5 stars Anne Hathaway's performance is career defining in superb drama.
I wanted to catch this brilliant drama at the cinema when it first came out but I never got round to seeing it. Read more
Published on 18 Mar 2010 by film fan
1.0 out of 5 stars Bad does not even get close to describing this
This is the most cringeworthy piece of pretentious stilted tripe I have seen in a long time. If I could give it a minus mark I would.
Published on 5 Feb 2010 by Paul Manning
5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful!... Cynics need not apply!
I love films that take a more relaxed pace and allow you to really get absorbed. Many of the people who hated this film may have been uncomfortable with its 'heart on the sleeve'... Read more
Published on 6 Jan 2010 by J. Lloyd
4.0 out of 5 stars And the band played on
Emotionally damaged Kym comes out of drug re-hab to spend time with her Connecticut based family and in particular her sister Rachel, who is about to get married. Read more
Published on 22 Nov 2009 by OEJ
5.0 out of 5 stars Slow, irritating & truly inspired!
Kim is a really horrid, self-centred and uncaring girl who finds herself being released from rehab in time for her sister Rachels wedding. Read more
Published on 27 Oct 2009 by Mr. David C. Halliday
3.0 out of 5 stars highly anticipated, somewhat disappointing
after the rave reviews of Hathaway in this film i was looking forward to the dvd but somehow never wanted to watch it after i bought it. Read more
Published on 10 Oct 2009 by mercury
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