Betsy's Wedding

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Betsy's Wedding

R,

1990,

1h 34m,

Comedy

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Jake (Dylan Walsh) and Betsy (Molly Ringwald) are a young couple looking to tie the knot. Content with an understated, intimate wedding, Jake and Betsy's plans go out the window when Betsy's working-class folks, Eddie (Alan Alda) and Lola (Madeline Kahn), feel compelled to go over the top after they meet Harry and Nancy, Jake's high-class parents. In need of financial help, Eddie enlists a shady in-law (Joe Pesci) for assistance, which only exacerbates matters.

William Thomas

Empire Magazine

Jan 6, 2017

2/5

Most of the people who see this will own funnier home videos of wedding disasters.

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Variety Staff

Variety

Feb 12, 2009

From a bolt of ordinary cloth Alan Alda fashions a thoroughly engaging matrimonial romp.

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Roger Ebert

Chicago Sun-Times

Jan 1, 2000

2/4

Betsy's Wedding assembles all of the materials for a human comedy, and then seems unconvinced by them.

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Graham Young

Birmingham Mail

Oct 18, 2023

Alda may have more than 20 top awards to his name, but this is a total nightmare of a production.

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Philip French

Observer (UK)

Oct 18, 2023

The kindly, ingratiating Betsy's Wedding, written and directed by its star Alan Alda, stands in the same relationship to Robert Altman's abrasive, unpredictable A Wedding that Alda's liberal TV series MASH occupies vis-à-vis the anarchic Altman movie.

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Christopher Tookey

Sunday Telegraph (UK)

Oct 17, 2023

There's a good pace, funny one-liners and enjoyable performances from the ubiquitous Joe Pesci as a sleazy uncle, Ally Sheedy as a vulnerable woman cop, and -- best of all -- Anthony LaPaglia as an earnest, Runyonesque young Mafioso.

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Rey S

Sep 29, 2017

This is kept together and made funnier by O'Hara, Pesci and, save for the accent slip from LaPaglia who also was good, Burt Young.

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Alan Alda

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Alan Alda

Eddie Hopper

Madeline Kahn

Lola Hopper

Molly Ringwald

Betsy Hopper

Ally Sheedy

Connie Hopper

Anthony LaPaglia

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Synopsis

Jake (Dylan Walsh) and Betsy (Molly Ringwald) are a young couple looking to tie the knot. Content with an understated, intimate wedding, Jake and Betsy's plans go out the window when Betsy's working-class folks, Eddie (Alan Alda) and Lola (Madeline Kahn), feel compelled to go over the top after they meet Harry and Nancy, Jake's high-class parents. In need of financial help, Eddie enlists a shady in-law (Joe Pesci) for assistance, which only exacerbates matters.

Director: Alan Alda
Producer: Martin Bregman, Louis A. Stroller
Screenwriter: Alan Alda
Production Co: Touchstone Pictures, Silver Screen Partners IV
Rating: R
Genre: Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jun 22, 1990, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Mar 1, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA): $19.7M
Runtime: 1h 34m
Sound Mix: Surround

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