Cheerful Weather for the Wedding

Name: Cheerful Weather for the Wedding
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Released: December 7, 2012
Duration: 93 min
Rating: 49
Cast: Elizabeth McGovern, Felicity Jones, James Norton, Luke Treadaway

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IFC Films | Release Date: December 7, 2012 | Not Rated

Starring: Elizabeth McGovern, Felicity Jones, James Norton, Luke Treadaway

Summary: England, 1932. Today is the wedding day of Dolly Thatcham, and her family is arriving at the manor house with all the cheerfulness, chaos and grievances that bubble to the surface at such gatherings. Trouble soon appears in the shape of Joseph, Dolly's lover from the previous summer, who throws her feelings into turmoil. Dolly's mother willEngland, 1932. Today is the wedding day of Dolly Thatcham, and her family is arriving at the manor house with all the cheerfulness, chaos and grievances that bubble to the surface at such gatherings. Trouble soon appears in the shape of Joseph, Dolly's lover from the previous summer, who throws her feelings into turmoil. Dolly's mother will not allow her carefully laid plans for her daughter's future to be threatened, and as the clock ticks, the bride can't decide whether to run away with Joseph or start a new life in Argentina with her husband-to-be. (Tribeca Film)… Expand

Director: Donald Rice

Genre(s): Drama, Comedy

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 93 min

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Jenna Scherer

Dec 4, 2012

Rice's style is pitched somewhere between Merchant Ivory and Wes Anderson, favoring shots of sad, pretty people looking bereft in elaborately elegant rooms. But it's Jones and Treadaway, both seething volcanoes trapped behind artfully pallid faces, who turn what could've been a candy-coated comedy of manners into a complex, melancholic farce. Read full review

John DeFore

Dec 4, 2012

A sustained balancing act between dry upper-crust cynicism and pent-up passions, Donald Rice's Cheerful Weather for the Wedding maintains its uneasy stasis long enough to frustrate some romance-hungry viewers while tantalizing those for whom withheld pleasure is the whole point. Read full review

Sam Adams

Dec 5, 2012

Without a source as rich as Jane Austen to draw on, Cheerful Weather feels incomplete, caroming off previous stories without forging its own way. Read full review

Ernest Hardy

Dec 4, 2012

The costumes are gorgeous, and the settings are plush, but the acting is merely serviceable, and the film lacks either the wit or the energy of its predecessors. Long before it ends, you find yourself indifferent to the fate of the mismatched lovebirds or anyone else in the tale. Read full review

Wesley Morris

Dec 13, 2012

There is one bright spot. Ellie Kendrick plays Dolly's silly, breathlessly romantic little sister, Kitty. Read full review

Rob Nelson

Dec 4, 2012

A costumer that's well named for being pleasant and conventional but little more. Read full review

Thomas Hachard

Dec 6, 2012

The Donald Rice film suffers most from an excessively blunt approach. Read full review

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Talley

Jul 29, 2014

I love action films, but I also love to slow down sometimes and watch a film like "Cheerful weather for the wedding", where all the characters are impossibly hilarious or ridiculous or both. Films where the main character is lovable, however, somewhat strange and disconnected. I loved theI love action films, but I also love to slow down sometimes and watch a film like "Cheerful weather for the wedding", where all the characters are impossibly hilarious or ridiculous or both. Films where the main character is lovable, however, somewhat strange and disconnected. I loved the scenes with the little boy and the old man, I laughed every time. To me, those kinds of films are what the Brits do best, or one of the things that they do best...No guns, no action, but pure humour and family drama with interactions between the characters that bring to mind some of the memories from my own childhood. Beautiful and riveting both story and characters. T.… Expand

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