Films about matrimony
| Title: MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING |
| Year: 2001 |
Country: USA |
Director: Joel Zwick |
| Cast: Nia Vardalos, John Corbett, Lainie Kazan, Michael Constantine,
Gia Carides |
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The story: Toula, 30 years old and still not married, works at Dancing Zorba, the Greek restaurant owned by her parents, Gus e Maria. She falls in love with a professor, but unfortunately , he is not Greek and it takes all her efforts to make her family accept him.
The family is all involved when there is a wedding. This film should be seen by mums and dads, brothers and sisters, the more the merrier.
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| Title: THE FATHER OF THE BRIDE |
| Year: 1950 |
Country: USA |
Director: Vincente Minnelli |
| Cast: Spencer Tracy, Elizabeth Taylor,
Joan Bennett, Don Taylor, Billie Burke, Leo G. Carroll, Moroni Olsen |
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The story:
Stanley Banks, lawyer and head of the family, has always seen his daughter as a little girl although she is grown up now. When the time comes for her to marry, Stanley is green with jealousy towards his future son-in-law and becomes hysterical.
A classic, not to be missed, it highlights all the anxiety, the paranoia, and nervousness of the last hour before the wedding. Happy ending...
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| Title: RUNAWAY BRIDE |
| Year: 1999 |
Country: USA |
Director: Garry Marshall |
| Cast: Richard Gere , Julia Roberts, Joan Cusack, Rita Wilson |
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The story: Ike Graham, journalist for a New York daily, has a few problems with his boss, Ellie, who is also his ex-wife. Always on the look-out for a good story, Ike hears the story of a young woman from Maryland, Maggie Carpenter, who is ‘allergic’ to marriage. The girl, in fact reached the altar three times but nobody managed to tie her down: a moment before the fateful “I do”, Maggie was gone. Ike writes an article about the case, but not before going to Hale, Maggie’s home town, to research the story personally. As you can imagine, cupid strikes.
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| Title: THE WEDDING PLANNER |
| Year: 2000 |
Country: USA |
Director: Joel Coen |
| Cast: Bridgette Wilson, Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Lopez |
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The story: Mary Fiore is the most efficient and genial wedding organizer in San Francisco. The ceremonies are sumptuous events, like something out of "Beautiful": a real show, with every detail taken care of, to make the occasion the most wonderful day of your life. She is really great at making other people’s dreams come true, but unable to find happiness for herself. Love is just business. One day she is saved from a collision with a garbage truck by a wonderful man with whom she spends an enchanted evening. Mary opens her heart! What a pity that the man is the future bridegroom in the mega matrimony which she is planning at the moment. What will Mary do? Will she choose reason or sentiment?
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| Title: INTOLERABLE CRUELTY |
| Year: 2000 |
Country: USA |
Director: Joel Coen |
| Cast: Bridgette Wilson, Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Lopez |
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The story: Marilyn Rexroth is facing yet another divorce . Her husband’s divorce lawyer, Miles Massey tries to trap the woman so that his client will not have to pay a large sum of alimony. Marylin, who is a real man-eater, decides to get her own back by making Miles her next victim. But things do not go exactly according to plan...
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