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Margot at the Wedding (2007) -- Margot and her son Claude decide to visit her sister Pauline after she announces that she is getting married to less-than-impressive Malcolm. In short order, the storm the sisters create leaves behind a a mess of thrashed relationships and exposed family
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Margot at the Wedding (2007) -- Margot and her son Claude decide to visit her sister Pauline after she announces that she is getting married to less-than-impressive Malcolm. In short order, the storm the sisters create leaves behind a a mess of thrashed relationships and exposed family
Margot at the Wedding (2007) -- Margot and her son Claude decide to visit her sister Pauline after she announces that she is getting married to less-than-impressive Malcolm. In short order, the storm the sisters create leaves behind a a mess of thrashed relationships and exposed family
Margot at the Wedding (2007) -- Margot and her son Claude decide to visit her sister Pauline after she announces that she is getting married to less-than-impressive Malcolm. In short order, the storm the sisters create leaves behind a a mess of thrashed relationships and exposed family

Overview

User Rating:
6.1/10   7,793 votes
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Director:
Writer (WGA):
Noah Baumbach (written by)
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Release Date:
21 February 2008 (Australia) more
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One family. Infinite degrees of separation.
Plot:
Margot and her son Claude decide to visit her sister Pauline after she announces that she is getting married to less-than-impressive Malcolm. In short order, the storm the sisters create leaves behind a a mess of thrashed relationships and exposed family secrets. full summary | add synopsis
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2 wins & 6 nominations more
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(17 articles)
Trailer and poster for Baumbach's 'Greenberg'
 (From screeninglog. 25 November 2009, 9:23 PM, PST)

Trailer - Ben Stiller in Noah Baumbach's 'Greenberg'
 (From Get The Big Picture. 24 November 2009, 9:32 PM, PST)

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A Repugnant Film more (87 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Zane Pais ... Claude

Susan Blackwell ... Woman on Train

Nicole Kidman ... Margot

Jack Black ... Malcolm

Flora Cross ... Ingrid

Jennifer Jason Leigh ... Pauline

Seth Barrish ... Toby
Matthew Arkin ... Alan
Brian Kelley ... Bruce
Christian Hansen ... Fireman
Michael Cullen ... Mr. Vogler
Enid Graham ... Mrs. Vogler

Sophie Nyweide ... Vogler Daughter
Justin Roth ... Vogler Son

Ciarán Hinds ... Dick Koosman
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Untitled Noah Baumbach Project (USA) (working title)
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MPAA:
Rated R for sexual content and language.
Runtime:
93 min | USA:91 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Nicole Kidman, Jack Black and Jennifer Jason Leigh moved in together during filming, because they wanted to perfect their roles as a dysfunctional family more
Goofs:
Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Malcolm has trouble recollecting the bassist for Motley Crue, and then remembers that it's Mick Mars. The bass player for Motley Crue is actually Nikki Sixx, although this mistake could have been intentional to further convey the forgetfulness. more
Quotes:
Malcolm: Make sure you can handle rejection. I can't. more
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41 out of 65 people found the following comment useful.
A Repugnant Film, 27 February 2008
1/10
Author: brocksilvey from United States

A typical conversation from "Margot at the Wedding" might go something like this:

"You were always so pretty." "WERE pretty? Does that mean you don't think I'm pretty anymore?" "Why are you responding with all of this passive aggressive hostility? I was just trying to pay you a compliment." "You know, I was noticing earlier today that you have really bad body odor. Does that ever bother you?" "You're such a bitch."

And that's it. Scene after scene of dialogue like this, spoken by one unlikable character to another unlikable character, until you feel like the only possible way for the movie to end satisfactorily is for all of the characters to be impaled on something very sharp and preferably jagged.

Noah Baumbach made an auspicious debut with "The Squid and the Whale," but with "Margot at the Wedding" he makes the mistake of assuming that one person's morbid neuroses are inherently interesting to another. We don't learn anything about these characters, we don't care about them, and we don't like them. You tell me -- do you want to sit through 90 minutes of that?

Grade: F

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