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Mackenzie Darling is filming her family as her movie star grandma Eve Wilde (Glenn Close) is getting married again. Her new groom is famed writer Harold Alcott (Patrick Stewart). Her first husband and first love Laurence Darling (John Malkovich) is still in the picture. There are cousins, uncles, and Mackenzie's divorced parents, Priscilla Jones (Minnie Driver) and Ethan Darling (Peter Facinelli).

Filmmaker Damian Harris is following the wrong characters. There are too many of them with too many relationships. I had trouble following the kids and some of the uncles. With the great cast up top, this should be concentrating more on the veteran love triangle. They should be the stars of the show. The writing is average at best. It's meandering and rambling. It's quirky without actually being funny. There are all kinds of possibilities that don't get enough nurturing. The biggest sin is wasting these great actors' time.

An all-star ensemble cast gathers at the palatial home of retired movie star Eve Wilde (Glenn Close), as she prepares to marry (her fifth) novelist Harold Alcott (Patrick Stewart). Close and John Malkovich,who portrays her first husband Laurence, are strong on screen, and I liked the performance of Yael Stone, as Clementine, one of Harold's daughters, in a supporting role.

However, despite the terrific cast, I found the film itself quite disappointing with almost all the characters self-indulgent and shallow. Their continuous attempts at having sexual flings get quite tedious.

Overall, this movie, written and directed by Damian Harris, just came across to me as hollow and soulless.

Some great talent in this film, beginning, at the top, with Glenn Close. Unfortunately, the plot hangs on John Malkovich, and, for me, there was no reason to get behind a positive outcome that includes his character. Back to the great cast, though, the young cast were superb (Bridgette Lundy-Paine and Grace Van Patten) with Minnie Driver and Patrick Stewart showing off their comedic chops. The premise was predictable (no matter how much I yelled at the screen, "No, not Malkovich!") but most of the time, the characters were drawn to be unappealing, vapid and uninteresting. So, all thing considered, I give this film a 6 (fair) out of 10. {Romantic Comedy}

If it weren't for Minnie Driver I would've been bored out of my skull. My take away is that the lives of actors are excruciatingly boring. The actors do their job well and act but it's just sad and tedious. If I could only submit 3 lines my review would be completed but apparently a good review must contain more content than is necessary...sorta like this movie.

I was going to start out saying this is a Woody Allen clone film, but then thought well, heck, there's a whole genre of films out there that I would call the upper-middle class family relationship genre. What usually implies Woody Allen is when they're set in New York, as this film is, and the family is Jewish, which was not stated in this film, nor was it not stated.

That said, The Wilde Wedding had much about it that kept me watching: good looking and interesting characters, some of whom are also celebrities in the arts and/or literature; pleasing physical settings in the suburbs and rural areas not far outside NYC; and ultimately, musings on the nature of love and marital relationships, and others, while the families act out some of these relationships.

What I especially liked about it was that even when things got somewhat strained between characters, overall the tone of the film was good-natured. There is some tongue-in-cheek humor, and some wine- and shroom- fueled antics which ultimately contribute to the overall happy mood.

Though it touches on some of the heavy subjects of life, highlighted with quotes by some of the heavies such as Shakespeare and Nietzsche, The Wilde Wedding is an hour and a half's worth of enjoyable film viewing.

This film tells the story of a seasoned actress, who is remarrying a man. Their families and ex spouses all converge for a weekend of wedding events, but things do not turn out as planned.

As with any film work a big cast and many characters, it is hard to develop all the characters and make people care about them. In here it is the same, the first hour basically it's a collage of one minute scenes of things that a character does. Sometimes I don't even know who that character is, so these characters become empty vessels that deliver a certain line or a joke.

Fortunately, the story gets better after it focuses on John Malkovich. I predicted the ending, but it still is a happy, heart warming ending that brings a smile to my face.

Terrible movie. It's such a waste of good actors with those caricatural characters that are almost impossible to like. Plus who ever did the French dubbing needs to be fired, It was terrible, it's like they chose the most annoying voices that they could find. I give a 2 for the nice house.

The Wilde wedding is that of Eve Wilde, a retired actress about to marry for the 4th time. Invited to the wedding is her ex-husband, her children, her grandchildren, her husband to be, his daughters, a few exes and a friend or two throw in. When introduced to guests/characters, a predictable chaos ensues. Harold (Patrick Stewart) is the groom to be who believes Eve will be the one to change him. Her ex-husband Laurence (John Malkovich) is both comfortable and uncomfortable as a guest in his own home.

The setting is supposedly in an upstate New York home, the grounds are beautiful, the home is spacious and classic. They all appear to be getting along until the pivotal event occurs, but of course you knew there would be one. It all ends as you think it will. Still I liked the film, why? Because it has some of my favorite actors in it and it didn't have some hidden meaning in the end. Good film with a glass of wine and an appetizer.

Suggestion: Pino grigio and crab dip

Probably only funny if you're as stoned as the people in this movie are..

The story is ripped from one of my all time favourites, Philadelphia Story and High Society. It has a fantastic cast that do the best with what they're given, which isn't very much, the script is a stinker! Totally fine for a hot sunday afternoon as long as you've nothing better to do.

Is this movie predictable from the start? Definitely Yes, but I enjoy every minute of it. It's got its charm. Glenn Close and John Malkovich are always a start to a good movie, but add few more gteat actors and quite funny script and tell the story with a little bit of distance, irony and subtle reference to some past roles of the two main actors, mix it with joy, soft and gentleness of all involved you will get a beautiful, fanny and very romantic movie which will take you by surprise. It took me. Thank you for that.

Lucky for this movie then, because the dialog is at times forced, shallow and unrealistic. Regardless, it's enjoyable to see the greats do what they can with so little 'meat' to work with. Wasted talent.

I read some of the previous reviews of this movie but - being a fan of the three stars - my husband and I decided to watch it last evening anyway. It was a shame that the basic premise (former movie star Eve/Glenn getting married for 4th time to writer Harold/Patrick while 1st husband Laurence/John is present as a friend of his ex-wife). Nice little premise that moves predictably through the script.

However, at least two of Eve's and Laurence's 3 adult son's plus their significant others and children and one of Harold's 2 adult daughters could have been eliminated from the picture all together as contributing nothing to the main plot but just adding to the movie's (and this viewer's) confusion.

Someone needed to take a red pen to this script before it began filming so that the focus would be where it belonged - on exploring the complicated relationship of Eve/Harold/Laurence and let these powerful stars shine instead of being relegated to bemused bystanders within their own storyline.

It's another Hollywood movie about the blessed crowd. Too talented, too rich, too burdened with too much. A trauma and resolution after too much sex, too much booze, too much of drugs. A masturbatory achievement dream for the rest of us to admire. To bad.

I really liked the movie and I remember the masterpiece of Louis Malle which is "Milou in may". Only missing is musics of Stephan Grappelli.

We're told this film is about a retired actress who divorced an actor and is going to marry a famous writer. We're also told that her daughter is a famous rock star divorced from her band mate who is also a rock star. In spite of being told all this, it's not conveyed enough in the plot and it's simply not believable.

Oh, and everyone seems to be sleeping with everyone else while staying in Eve's country home before the wedding. Plenty of drug and alcohol use also goes on. Too bad the only substance in this movie is what's being abused for a buzz.

With an A-list cast, you'd hope the content would be better but you can't act your way out of a script devoid of genuine content. Instead you get a sexploitation comedy without any good jokes. And even though there's plenty of scandalous activity, none of the characters seem to have real human emotion and casually accept events that would lead to chairs being thrown if this was the Jerry Springer Show. The only reason to watch this bomb is if you're a fan of any of the stars and to gawk at attractive people.

I have watched Damian Harris' "The Wilde Wedding" almost daily in my home office (social distancing) since I recently found it on Amazon Prime. It's fun watch as well as listen to. (Still waiting for a soundtrack to come out Mr. Harris!). PT Walkley did a great job with the score and song selections here. (Minnie Driver covers a couple songs that are not to be missed). I enjoyed all of the characters, the mix of writers, actors, composers and performers. Each scene filled with interactions of friends, family and ex-spouses who still get along and enjoy each other's company on some level. It's a real party!

The best thing about this movie is a slight scent of nostalgia for Malkovich and Close as young actors. They worked together in the memorable Dangerous Liaisons and they're best remembered in that masterpiece.

However, time passes by so quickly and in this film Close plays Eve, a big, pluri-divorced movie star, while Malkovich is Laurence, her first husband and a slight caricature of himself, as a famous theatre actor with bigger professional reputation, but not Eve's fame or money. They both are good and so is Patrick Stewart, the British would be fifth husband.

Gathering to Eve's house before the wedding, these older characters acknowledge that their life is drawing to a close and they must find a way to deal with the dwindling time they have left.

Unfortunately, philosophical speculation is just a short interlude in a plot filled with too many characters. Coming to the wedding are Eve and Laurence's three grown-up sons, all single or divorced, their children, one ex-wife, plus the groom's two daughters and a truckload of young, half-naked female friends and lesbian lovers.

Most of the plot feels like a nightmare where you forget the name of the people they've just introduced and their relations to each other, while all the characters seem busy having casual sex with each other.

Probably that's the way it goes in the world of rockstars, famous novelist and movie stars, but that doesn't necessarily make a good movie. Shame about the mediocre script that suffocates Malkovich and Close's performances.

An unfocused, shallow and uninteresting film, lacking purpose and point The characters are cliches: the movie star, the philanderer writer, the egotistical actor etc, with no opportunity to see past these stereotypes.

The movie loses focus when it doesn't have a character; the comedy, drama, profound scenes don't go anywhere, they all stay superficial due to poor dialogues and depthless directing.

There are amazing actors who have shown their talent through the years, unfortunately these same actors are to curated; aesthetic is chosen over acting.

The mature cast has no relevant interaction with the middle aged nor younger cast. So there are not many laughs, tears, surprise, suspense through the whole emotionless film. There is not much sympathy for the characters who don't generate connection between themselves and less so with the audience.

There is not much of a climax or a build up, just people doing their lines, with no apparent reason to be, to do; there is no evolution, redemption, in any one of these characters .

Good music, beautiful house and scenery; but any incredible waste of these for such a bland movie, a huge squandering of talented actors because they were kept "pretty" rather than capitalizing on their proven talent.

Stinker unless you get off on the trials of rich white people problems where every character is an oversexed, morally-devoid actor, artist, writer or musician. Maybe if the film had tried harder to send up these overstuffed egotists it would have been worthwhile, instead we get a schooling in the difficult life of a drug-addled celebrity.

A remake of "The Big Chill", including Glenn Close. All those memories, put to no good use. A piece only for nostalgia bluffs.