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List Price: $9.99 | | Label: Image Entertainment
Salesrank: 39495
Released: September 11, 2001 |
| Our Price: $7.00 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Guy (Richard Roxburgh) has finally met the perfect woman. Lizzie (Cate Blanchett) is gorgeous, kind, rich and crazy about him. So why can't he stop thinking about his first love, Jenny (Frances O'Connor)? On his wedding day, Guy relives his intoxicating but doomed relationship with Jenny--her outrageous, sexy seduction, their near-fatal vacations and most of all, their making-up moments after the fights. It's enough to make him think he's marrying the wrong woman. For the hopeless romantic in all of us, "The Wedding Party" is a warm and witty look at love, life and commitment--even if you've got cold feet!
Description of The Wedding Party:
Guy (Richard Roxburgh of Mission: Impossible 2 and Oscar & Lucinda) meets Lizzie (Cate Blanchett of Elizabeth and The Talented Mr. Ripley) when a stray cat begins to give birth in his arms. Despite this unlikely beginning, they soon get married--which is when Australian comedy The Wedding Party (also known as Thank God He Met Lizzie) really begins. Faced with married life, Guy looks back on his previous relationship with Jenny (Frances O'Connor of Mansfield Park and Bedazzled), revisiting its highs and its lows--ranging from the couple's first passionate sex in a car to being drugged and robbed on a tour of England--and seeing them in a different light. The movie's humor isn't the raucous slapstick its publicity might lead you to expect; remarkably, the film paints both relationships as complicated and genuine, with surprising human insights. The Wedding Party seems awkward at first, but that's in part because it's not aiming for conventional laughs. There is plenty of humor, but there's a deep melancholy to it as well, and by the end the movie offers a multilayered vision of life. Roxburgh, Blanchett (in her film debut), and O'Connor are all excellent, and the script is sprinkled with sharp wit. --Bret Fetzer
The Wedding Party Reviews:
For Cate alone 
2005-12-12 - It doesn't matter whether this modestly amusing film has something to "say"--or not. It offers Cate Blanchett to marvel over. She invests her role with more of her "infinite variety" than it deserves, is wonderfully nuancy, incredibly erotic, and never once lets you wonder what she can possibly want with Richard Roxburgh. Watching her, near film's end, flouncing about half drunkenly in a clingy gown could easily become addictive.
Too bad there are no captions. The language is Aussie and, from time to time, a bit of translation would be helpful.
I AGREE WITH "DEPRESSING" 
2004-12-14 - I noticed in a previous review that the reviewer thought this movie dark and depressing, and Zero of 3 people found this info "useful" .... probably only because those who disagree are the only ones to respond concerning the review's "usefulness." I personally think the review WAS useful, because it gives a point of view that one can think upon before deciding to watch the movie. I decided to watch it, and lo and behold, the jacket that said "The hilarious story of two women and the man who's trapped in the middle," ... Wow, that was WAY OFF the mark. The story isn't hilarious despite a few amusing moments, the story isn't romantic despite some kisses and sexual content, and the story isn't about a man trapped in the middle. One of Guy's last replies to his orphan friend says it all: "The trouble with happiness is, you don't know when you have it, you just remember it. Ask me again in 10 years."
This pretty much sums the story up. He remembered back, the bad and the good of his relationship with Jenny, and he "remembered" being "happy" with her, and was now not so sure if he was happy with his wife. Having no present perception of happiness is a miserable and sad and depressing view of life. So yes, I do agree with the reviewer who called this movie "dark and depressing."
It Was So Sad!
2004-08-17 - This is NOT a comedy! It made me cry! It really makes you see the reality of why people get married and to whom and that it can just be circumstance and what they think they "should" want. How did Don Henley put it? "What are these voices outside loves' open door makes us throw off our contentment and beg for something more?"
I'm glad I bought it.
Especially for fans of Richard Roxburgh
2004-02-06 - The Wedding Party is a gem of a movie - a small film with a lot of heart. Richard Roxburgh is the main character, Guy Jameson, who is getting married to Cate Blanchett. On their wedding night, though, he is reflecting upon his prior live-in relationship with Frances O'Connor, and wondering if he is marrying the wrong woman. Richard Roxburgh is superb and you really get to like Guy, and feel for his dilemma (although I did find myself wondering what he saw in either one). Then again, Richard is great in everything he does, and not too hard on the eyes either! I highly recommend this film, especially the tree-trimming scene (my favourite)!
NOT romantic, NOT a comedy 
2002-03-23 - This film is not what I was expecting. The review on the back of the box describes the film as "Warm and Witty" but I found it to be dark and depressing.
Everyone loves a romantic wedding, but those who are looking for something that is lighthearted and funny would find "Father of the Bride" (I recommend the 1950 version starring Spencer Tracy), "The Wedding Banquet" or "Four Weddings and a Funeral" to be more enjoyable.
