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 |
Offbeat fashion student Betsy Hopper and her strait-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 and ... Written by Anonymous
"Betsy's Wedding" is absolutely yawn-worthy and I can't imagine how green-lighting this film was ever considered a good idea. The story is so uninteresting and incoherent that it's a total waste of celluloid. Upon excruciating inspection, one might be able to discern that Betsy (Molly Ringwald) is set to be married to a man who comes from money. Betsy's father (Alan Alda) is determined to pay for the wedding and throw an obnoxious display to prove that he can toss cash around with the best of them. What ensues is an agonizing plotline following Alda as considers getting involved with the mob to finance the debacle. As a fan of both Ringwald and Ally Sheedy -who co-stars as Betsy's cop sister- I can't imagine why either one took roles in such a turkey.