Jenny's Wedding

Name: Jenny's Wedding
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Released: July 31, 2015
Duration: 94 min
Rating: 33

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IFC Films | Release Date: July 31, 2015 | PG-13

Summary: Jenny Farrell (Katherine Heigl) has led an openly gay life - except with her conventional family. When she finally decides to start a family and marry the woman they thought was just her roommate, the small, safe world the Farrell's inhabited changes forever. They are left with a simple and difficult choice - either change with it or drown.Jenny Farrell (Katherine Heigl) has led an openly gay life - except with her conventional family. When she finally decides to start a family and marry the woman they thought was just her roommate, the small, safe world the Farrell's inhabited changes forever. They are left with a simple and difficult choice - either change with it or drown. [IFC Films]… Expand

Director: Mary Agnes Donoghue

Genre(s): Drama, Comedy

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 94 min

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Katie Walsh

Jul 30, 2015

Heartstring-tugging if a bit humorless. Read full review

Justin Chang

Jul 14, 2015

While the fine cast teases out glimmers of nuance here and there, Mary Agnes Donoghue’s film plays like a series of hand-holding growth exercises for closed-minded conservatives, and relies too heavily on its tying-the-knot finale for both dramatic momentum and emotional closure. Read full review

Jon Frosch

Jul 14, 2015

There’s a fine, fierce film somewhere in Jenny’s Wedding, trying to claw its way out from under all the clichés, speechifying and sappy pop music. Read full review

Nick Prigge

Jul 27, 2015

Tolerance in the film doesn't so much suggest a recognizably real epiphany as it does a moving Hallmark card. Read full review

Jeannette Catsoulis

Jul 30, 2015

A movie so hopelessly late to the coming-out party that you want to haul everyone connected with it into the 21st century. Read full review

Richard Roeper

Sep 17, 2015

This clunky dud about a same-sex union would have come across as trite and behind-the-times 20 years ago, let alone in 2015. Read full review

Aaron Hillis

Jul 28, 2015

Lazy, schmaltzy, and on-the-nose from its Hallmark-friendly production design to its rancid pop-music cues and naive dialogue. Read full review

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meydianarizki21

Oct 30, 2020

This is a great movie to watch on a lazy afternoon. Jenny who is 30ish woman. She has never brought a guy home. Everyone tells her that she should get married as her biological clock is ticking. While talking to her father she confessed that she is in relationship. She realises that sheThis is a great movie to watch on a lazy afternoon. Jenny who is 30ish woman. She has never brought a guy home. Everyone tells her that she should get married as her biological clock is ticking. While talking to her father she confessed that she is in relationship. She realises that she should get married and start a family. Later she comes out and tells her parents that she is a lesbian. On her mother's request she hides it from her sister only to hurt her later. Jenny's brother happily accepts her and tells her that he knew this since high school. Jenny's sister reconciles and also ends her troublesome relationship with her husband. In the end Jenny's parents also agree to be a part of the wedding. The movie shows the difficulty of life of LGBTQ+ group. The behaviour of society, lack of acceptance of family members, and a lot of issues of LGBTQ community. I loved the movie and would recommend it to everyone.… Expand

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LeZee

Apr 14, 2016

Is there any better gay themed movie for the family audience?

This is an awesome movie for families, maybe except orthodox families. It is a lesbian theme, but not a romance movie. A beautiful drama filled with some good humours. This is not about two women falling in love and theirIs there any better gay themed movie for the family audience?

This is an awesome movie for families, maybe except orthodox families. It is a lesbian theme, but not a romance movie. A beautiful drama filled with some good humours. This is not about two women falling in love and their relationship complications, but the family of one of them who struggle to accept after knowing their daughter is a gay. The daughter wanted to marry her sweetheart and start a family. So how things shape up within the family, who lose, who gain and what happens at the end is the remaining.

The title says it is a Jenny's wedding, but the wedding is a small part, the rest is all about Jenny's family. While portraying the family about how they're coping with the news, I liked how the film focused one at a time and their way of coming out of the frame they're in. Mostly it was the perspective of the women, because the writer was a woman, so she knew how to carve it. That's why the father's part slightly lacked the exhibition, nevertheless, that's the only male character that has to be so tough.

Such a wonderful narration, totally an unexpected movie. Surely one of the underrated movie of the year. The cast was fantastic. Among all the characters, Alexis Bledel's role was disappointingly shorter. Anyway, she was not that important, but the rest of them had played their part exceptionally. Great dialogues, sometimes emotionally gets us. Is there any best gay themed film for families, I've not seen quite good as this one. I definitely recommend it.

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sexyanne

Sep 18, 2015

It all feels outdated, simplistic and insulting to both the characters and the audience.

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hanneguacamole

Aug 5, 2015

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I saw the preview for Jenny's Wedding and I was excited. I knew I was getting my hopes up for a Katherine Heigl romcom and I knew it would be bad, but I couldn't help it. I hoped we would see an actual lesbian couple normally on the movie screen. But instead, this movie lacks any romance and I'm left wondering why Kitty and Jenny are even getting married at all.

I think this movie is sexist and homophobic. First, we are convinced that Jenny will be happy if she gets married. It's all her family can talk about! For the amount of times the mother says she's like her daughter, it shocks me to see her so disgusted when all Jenny's doing is being herself. I understand that someone "coming out" can be a shock, but the reality is that it's 2015. I know situations such as the one portrayed in the movie do happen, and worse, but the parents never fully seem to accept their daughter for who she is. And this is supposed to be a comedy. Homophobia isn't funny.

There was significantly more screentime shown of the parents and the sister than there was of Jenny and Kitty – the namesake of the movie. Bickering is the main focus and no matter how hard it tried it would not be funny. In no other romcom would more time be spent on the family than the actual couple getting married, but of course when the focus is gay we have to get in our straightness somewhere!

It would have been so cool to have a mainstream movie like this without any of the family issues. After watching, I imagine the target audience is older parents or family members that are "struggling" with someone's sexual orientation and trying to excuse their blatant homophobia. A wasted opportunity.… Expand

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