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The daughter of a Louisville truck driver marries the scion of a very wealthy family, but the reception at the family estate is boycotted by the invited guests.The daughter of a Louisville truck driver marries the scion of a very wealthy family, but the reception at the family estate is boycotted by the invited guests.The daughter of a Louisville truck driver marries the scion of a very wealthy family, but the reception at the family estate is boycotted by the invited guests.
- Nominated for 2 BAFTA Awards
- 1 win & 5 nominations total
Nina van Pallandt
- Regina Corelli
- (as Nina Van Pallandt)
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- TriviaDirector Robert Altman admits that the whole production of the film came as a joke. A reporter had kept asking him during the middle of shooting 3 Women (1977) what he planned to do next and Altman jokingly replied that he was going to film someone's wedding seeing as that was becoming a more common thing to do at the time. Altman said: "I'm going to make a movie about a great big fancy wedding!" As Altman reflected on it, he decided it was actually quite a good idea, as he had never been to a wedding where something didn't go wrong. Altman's off-hand idea manifested itself in a drinking session with his 3 Women (1977) crew that evening after the meeting with the journalist. Within a couple of weeks, Altman had commissioned screenwriter John Considine to start developing a story and a guest list.
- GoofsWhy would Tracy saying she "missed the wedding" be a goof? The writer could have intended sarcasm, with Tracy knowing full-well that she wasn't invited to the wedding and taking it as a slight.
- Quotes
Ruby Sparr: Do you smoke?
Shelby Munker: No, it makes me dizzy.
Ruby Sparr: Me too, that's why I like it.
Shelby Munker: Well I try to do natural things. A lot of people in my family died of cancer. Bye.
Ruby Sparr: They... they died of cancer smoking pot?
- Alternate versionsThe credits in the German version have a completely different order compared to the original release.
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WEDDING captures the aesthetics of Californian wealth in the '70's
As I recently watched A WEDDING for the first time on late night Japanese television, I admit that I didn't get into it right away. But from about a half hour deep and on I was hypnotized. The best thing about any Altman film is not the immediate story it appears to be conveying but rather the heavily detail-oriented world in which the story plays out. The world here, similar in period detail to an earlier great '70's film by Michael Ritchie called SMILE, is that of sprawling middle class wealth and comfort. Many of the characters' motivations stem from this overwealth and drive them towards insatiable sexual appetites. I am particularly struck by a scene that takes place on a California freeway. There's less traffic here in a midday scene than there would be these days on any given night at 3 AM. Just as I felt as though I was completely tuned into this world, Pam Dawber rides into the center of the film on a horse while a man on a motorcycle almost causes her to fall and I cannot for the life of me explain how or why the symbolism here struck me as hard as it did. This was an amazing visual film. I suppose in the far flung future when vitual reality technologies are a reality, programmers seeking to recreate this era will use this film for reference as they would be well served in so doing.
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- clintonspilsbury
- Jun 17, 2003
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- Also known as
- Eine Hochzeit
- Filming locations
- Waukegan, Illinois, USA(Amstutz Expressway)
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- Runtime2 hours 5 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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