Betsy's Wedding (1990)

Offbeat fashion student Betsy Hopper and her straight-laced investment-banker fiancé, Jake Lovell, just want an intimate little wedding reception, but Betsy's father, Eddie, a Long Island ... See full summary »

Director:

Alan Alda

Writer:

Alan Alda

Stars:

Alan Alda, Joey Bishop, Madeline Kahn

2 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Alan Alda	...	Eddie Hopper
Joey Bishop	...	Mr. Hopper - Eddie's Father
Madeline Kahn	...	Lola Hopper
Anthony LaPaglia	...	Stevie Dee
Catherine O'Hara	...	Gloria Henner
Joe Pesci	...	Oscar Henner
Molly Ringwald	...	Betsy Hopper
Ally Sheedy	...	Connie Hopper
Burt Young	...	Georgie
Julie Bovasso	...	Grandma
Nicolas Coster	...	Harry Lovell
Bibi Besch	...	Nancy Lovell
Dylan Walsh	...	Jake Lovell
Camille Saviola	...	Angelica
Allan Rich	...	Nate Tobias

Storyline

Offbeat fashion student Betsy Hopper and her straight-laced investment-banker fiancé, Jake Lovell, just want an intimate little wedding reception, but Betsy's father, Eddie, a Long Island construction contractor, feels so threatened by Jake's rich WASP parents that he blows the ceremony up into a bank-breaking showpiece, sending his wife, Lola, into a financial panic. Pressure from Betsy's extended family to include their joint Jewish and Italian-Catholic heritage in the ceremony doesn't do much to assuage the title character's worries, nor does the lovelorn bitterness of her older sister, Connie, who's single, her parents assume, because she has the audacity to pursue the unfeminine profession of police officer. With all of his funds tied up into the money pit of a house he's building, Betsy's dad has to turn to his crooked brother-in-law, Oscar, for financial assistance, and soon a soft-spoken but menacing young mobster named Stevie Dee is supervising Eddie's construction project ...

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Plot Keywords:

wedding | jewish | police officer | mobster | police | 

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Taglines:

The wedding picture doesn't always tell the whole story.

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Genres:

Comedy | Romance

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Certificate:

R

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

22 June 1990 (USA)

Also Known As:

Three Daughters

Filming Locations:

New York City, New York, USA

Box Office

Gross:

$19,740,070 (USA)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Touchstone Pictures, Silver Screen Partners IV, Martin Bregman Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

94 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Inspired by Alan Alda's own daughter's wedding.

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Quotes

Connie Hopper: I'm a cop, and you're... not.

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Connections

Referenced in Home and Away: Episode #1.698 (1991)

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Soundtracks

"The Stripper"
Written by David Rose

User Reviews

A wedding in a leaking tent

Nothing could bring more rivalry between parents and would be in-laws as a wedding. The young couple in this story has more common sense than their elders. They just want a small affair, but then, the parents get involved blowing the whole thing out of proportion. What a terrible waste these things are. After all, most of them would end up in divorce.

Alan Alda has written, directed and is one of the stars of "Betsy's Wedding", a film about two different families, one struggling, and the other one rich, whose children are going to marry. The comedy is a bit dated. What starts as a small wedding ends up as an elaborate celebration in a tent in the middle of a rain storm. There are a few laughs in the picture.

Best of the whole thing are Ally Sheedy and Anthony LaPaglia who are supposed to be secondary characters. The large cast does what it can with the material they have to play. Alan Alda, Madeline Kahn, Molly Ringwald, Dylan Walsh, Joe Pesci, and Catherine O'Hara are seen as the family members.