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Cheerful Weather for the Wedding (2012) 5.3
A young woman frets upstairs in her family's country manor on her wedding day, fearful she's about to marry the wrong man. Downstairs, both her fiancé and her former lover grow increasingly anxious. Director:Donald Rice |
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Mrs. Thatcham
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Eva Traynor | ... |
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Paola Dionisotti | ... |
Mrs. Whitstable
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Sophie Stanton | ... |
Millman
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Elizabeth Webster | ... |
Betty
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| Kenneth Collard | ... |
Whitstable
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Kitty Thatcham
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Evelyn Graham
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Ben Greaves-Neil | ... |
Jimmy Dakin
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Luke Ward-Wilkinson | ... |
Robert
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Tom
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| Joanna Hole | ... |
Miss Spoon
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Horace Spigott
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A young woman frets upstairs in her family's country manor on her wedding day, fearful she's about to marry the wrong man. Downstairs, both her fiancé and her former lover grow increasingly anxious.
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wedding | honeymoon | dysfunctional family | english country dance | rum |Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)
Rated PG for thematic material involving sensuality, and for smoking and brief language | See all certifications »Parents Guide:
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Country:
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EnglishRelease Date:
16 August 2012 (New Zealand) See more »Also Known As:
Um Dia Perfeito Para Casar See more »Filming Locations:
Fonthill Lake, Fonthill Bishop, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, UKBox Office
Opening Weekend:
$727 (USA) (7 December 2012)Gross:
$1,949 (USA) (14 December 2012)Company Credits
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Dolly Thatcham: I wanted you to come after me.
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Traditional
By John Roderick Bannerman
[played on bagpipes]
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Throughout the movie, Joseph, played by Luke Treadaway is frequently asked about the difference between two identical twins who were invited for the wedding ceremony (he even mocks of them at some point). In real life, Luke is an identical twin of his brother Harry Treadaway who is also an actor. See more »Quotes
Joseph Patten: Why did you push off the boat?Dolly Thatcham: I wanted you to come after me.
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"Mairi's Wedding"Traditional
By John Roderick Bannerman
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Ah, the British! They have their eccentricities that have been providing fodder for little films for years - from the great stories of EM Forster, Evelyn Waugh, Julian Fellowes et al to the little dramadies such as this one written by director Donald Rice with Mary Henely-Magill, CHEERFUL WEATHER FOR THE WEDDING. They come off best when the odd class-oriented families take themselves seriously, covering their narrow view of the world of civility with accents so thick and rapidly delivered that without subtitles it is difficult to follow the script! But they are enchanting, especially when delivered by a cast of superb actors who are able to enter these odd characters' psyches and make us titter while we endure their snobbishness.
This film is meticulously presented and is both a celebration of English eccentricity and an understated examination of how families often do everything they can to avoid saying how they really feel. Dolly Thatcham (Felicity Jones) is to be married to the wealthy Owen (James Norton) after a very brief engagement: Dolly delays her preparations for the ceremony by drinking rum upstairs as she has flashbacks to her real romance a summer ago with the young professor Joseph Patten (Luke Treadaway) whom Dolly has invited to the wedding (to her mother's (Elizabeth McGovern) chagrin and Joseph waits downstairs with the entire bizarre family and friends awaiting Dolly's descent to proceed to the church. The story is interrupted with all manner of subplots including the strange behavior of Dolly's younger sister Kitty (Ellie Kendrick) who provides the audience with a naïveté that reveals so much about what everyone else is really thinking but just can't bring themselves to say.
Among the entertaining eccentrics having luncheon before the wedding are the bickering married couple (Fenella Woolgar and Mackenzie Crook) attempting to stop their son young Jimmy (Ben Greaves-Neil) from setting off little bombs throughout the house, aging but silly Aunt Bella (Barbara Flynn) seducing her chauffeur (Emil Lager), the perennial old maid Miss Spoon (Joanna Hole), the day's drunk Tom (Olly Alexander) and of course the only people about whom we care - the servants (Eva Traynor, Paola Dionisotti, Sophie Stanton, Kenneth Collard. The use of flashbacks to give us insight into Dolly's dilemma of marrying for convenience instead of for love is beautifully handled by creating a golden glow touch to the sequences from the past by cinematographer John Lee and a lovely musical score by Michael Price. And in a final farewell speech Joseph manages to put everything in its rightful place. It all works well, but put on the subtitles or you'll be in the dark.
Grady Harp