All smiles, no
wrinkles—Father of the Bride (1991), the
remake of the 1950 movie of the same name, is a movie that touches
every area of the heart, making you smile all the way through as you look
forward to giving your own child away.
The cast brings
warmth, and the combination and ploy done by George Banks (Steve Martin), who
can arguably be regarded as the cheapest man alive, are all too funny to make
you turn away. After seeing this movie at a young age, I couldn’t wait to get
another dose of it, hunting down the DVD to see George, Frank (Martin Short),
and Nina (Diane Keaton) plan a perfect wedding to give their beautiful daughter
away.
My sight for
sore eyes in this flick is the beautiful wedding sneakers that George made for
his daughter Annie (Kimberly Williams) just before her wedding. This movie can
be said to be the best comedy that Steve Martin pulled off; it’s all cheers for
you and the family.
The movie plot
is a narration from George Banks to us, the viewers, about the things that led
to his daughter’s wedding. George is a successful owner of an athletic shoe
company; he hasn’t seen his daughter (Annie) for a while since she went to
Europe, so he eagerly awaits her arrival from Rome. Annie’s arrival comes with
a surprise: she is engaged to be married to a certain Bryan Mackenzie (George
Newbern).
George, who
still sees Annie as his little girl, finds it hard to cope with the fact that
his daughter is about to be a woman. To make matters worse, he also has to pay
for a flamboyant wedding that he did not plan for. George, being extremely
cheap, now starts to think of ways to cut costs. With the whole wedding plan
going on around him, George is in line for a nervous breakdown.
Father of the
Bride was the breakthrough role for Kimberly Williams, and it was a revival for
Keaton, who had been having flop after flop for years, affecting her
relationship with Disney, who didn’t want to cast her in this movie in the
first place.
Father of the
Bride is both a critical and financial success. It currently holds a 72%
approval rating on the aggregate site Rotten Tomatoes, and it spawned a sequel,
Father
of the Bride 2, in 1995.
Here’s a DVD collection that you should buy and keep watching anytime you feel blue.
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