Rachel Getting Married

This Jonathan Demme film apparently got very good reviews, and it has many excellent qualities about it. Great music. Generally a picture of the kind of wedding many of us would have liked to have had in the Connecticut house we would also liked to have had.

Anne Hathaway, in the lead, plays a disturbed girl with a long history of substance abuse and associated mayhem. In general, she overplays, or is rather overdirected. Demme, at least, spares us overwrought reconciliations at the end.