People always tend to think of weddings as happy occasions. If that doesn't do anything for you, there's usually at least an open bar. For some of the unlucky ones, however, they view it as another slap in the face that proves how sad and alone they really are. I've been there; it's an awful and bitter place to be.
The best example is in "Rachel Getting Married." It was supposed to be Anne Hathaway's edgy movie, until she basically went nude for the entirety of "Love and Other Drugs."
The movie tells a story of a family that is desperately trying to be happy and rejoice in the fact that their oldest daughter is getting married. Their fragile bubble of happiness is popped when Kym, the younger sister (Anne Hathaway), comes home for the wedding from rehab.
She has sex with the best man, brings back unhappy memories of the little brother she killed and wrecks her car. The moral of the story is that life sucks, but life also goes on.
Don't watch this movie when you're sad. I was happy when it started, and I was balling my eyes out as the credits rolled.
Sam Levine decided to create his own masterpiece of family disaster with "Another Happy Day," which opened Nov. 4. Boy oh boy, this film looks like it's going to put "Rachel Getting Married" to shame. Where "Rachel" had one person with some serious issues and addiction, this has a whole cast chocked full of addictions and disorders.
A family is once again coming together for a wedding, although the term "coming together" could be used quite loosely. The mother shows up to the wedding with the three children she raised in tow so that they can attend the wedding of their older brother. Her youngest son, who looks to be about 18, has been to rehab four times, her daughter is cutting herself and the mother herself is a complete emotional wreck.
To add insult to injury, the maternal grandmother is hiding her husband's health problems from the rest of the family, and the divorced parents of the groom have to go to a counselor just so they can talk to each other.
This is Sam Levine's first film, and it looks to be a great one. It won best screenplay at the Sundance Film Festival this year and all of the characters look interesting as hell. It'll be interesting to see a more realistic portrayal of weddings.
As Demi Moore's character so harshly puts it, "It's a wedding. Weddings aren't volatile." I guess we'll have to see.
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