You probably think you know what Rachel Getting Married is about just from that title, right? Well, you'd be right. It is about a girl named Rachel (the lovely Rosemarie DeWitt, from Mad Men) who is, in fact, getting married. But that's not really the point of the movie. That's more of the backdrop for telling the story of a dysfunctional family who gets together to bond and scream and fight and hug and cry. Anne Hathaway really stretches to play the bride's sister, a train wreck who really puts the dysfunctional in the family. I know I've only seen the trailer, but my guess is that Anne was upset at being the only person in Brokeback Mountain not nominated for an Oscar, so she went out and found herself an Oscar bait role. And it looks like she totally owns it in a way I would not have expected from the princess of Princess Diaries. The movie looks touching and poignant. The trailer oversells it a bit with the whole "This is not your family. But this is your family." But I'll forgive it that, and give the movie a chance on its own merits and pedigree (it's directed by Jonathan Demme and co-stars Debra Winger).

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