Betsy's Wedding (1990)

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 ... See full summary »

Director:

Alan Alda

Writer:

Alan Alda

Stars:

Alan Alda, Molly Ringwald, Joey Bishop

3 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 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 ...

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Plot Keywords:

mobster | police officer | jewish | wedding | 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 USA:

$19,740,070

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

Catherine O'Hara and Joe Pesci appeared in Home Alone (1990) and Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992).

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Goofs

At the construction site in New York, George and Stevie Dee never wear protection helmets, which is a standard procedure involving authorized and unauthorized personnel working or visiting the site (even Eddie uses a helmet and he's a visitor just like Stevie and George are).

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Quotes

Eddie Hopper: You got this tent for nothing?

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Connections

Referenced in Mystery Science Theater 3000: Rocket Attack U.S.A. (1990)

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Soundtracks

Moondance
Written by Van Morrison

User Reviews

I'd Rather Have Seen the Divorce

One of the lamer wedding movies you'll see. Smacks too too much of its time period so it was out of date before it hit the theaters. The ethnic stereotypes are like a Henny Youngman joke, except they just aint in the least bit funny here. Molly Ringwald, well what else needs to be said. Give you a clue to the silliness, she destroys a $10,000 wedding dress, because "It just won't be me" makes it into this rag, with straps and puts on a top hat, and everyone smiles cutely at her moxy, rather than ringwalding her neck. Its a helluva a cast too, check out how heavy Ally Sheedy is. Wheeeew!