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Jenny's Wedding
- Director: Mary Agnes Donoghue
- Writer: Mary Agnes Donoghue
- Producer: Stuart Brown; Michael C. Cuddy
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Barbie goes all lesbian...in a one-dimensional rom-com...replete with those Goddamn awful tug-at-the-heart folk songs.
Do all lesbian-themed films need to have this incessant and f**king ghastly, wrist-slitting caterwauling? It's the 21st Century...for Christssakes.
What's wrong with Jenny's Wedding...well, just about everything. The writing and direction both have headline billing...dated, pedestrian, predictable.
It's the 21st Century...surely, you could come up with a more riveting story than this bland drivel.
Way back in 1988, Mary Agnes Donoghue had a major writing success with...Beaches (with Ms Midler & Ms Hershey)...then, in 1991, she plonked her butt in the director's chair...
24 years later...that same butt, in the same chair...delivers something that looks and sounds if it was made 24 years ago.
Worry not about Jenny's intended...the script deftly does. It's a marriage...surely, the other half should have a significant role and story?!? But no...this is - solely - a vehicle for Ms Heigl...she would be well-advised to change her mode of transport...this will get her nowhere.
The whole thing is just so Goddamn infuriating. And, the poster kind of gives away the ending!!!
Sloppy.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
Jenny Farrell 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 Farrells inhabited changes forever. They are left with a simple and difficult choice - either change with it or drown.
Cast & Characters
Katherine Heigl as Jenny;
Tom Wilkinson as Eddie;
Linda Emond as Rose;
Grace Gummer as Anne;
Alexis Bledel as Kitty;
Cathleen O'Malley as Lorraine;
Sam McMurray as Denny;
Houston Rhines as Frankie;
Ed Ackerman as Fireman #1;
Bill Watterson as Fireman #2