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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Paramount
EAN: 0097363479741
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Paramount
Manufacturer: Paramount
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Paramount
Region Code: 1
Release Date: February 19, 2008
Running Time: 91 minutes
Sales Rank: 16017
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
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Description:
Margot Zeller (Nicole Kidman) is a short story writer with a sharp wit and an even sharper tongue. On the eve of her estranged sister Pauline’s (Jennifer Jason Leigh) wedding to unemployed musician/artist/depressive Malcolm (Jack Black) at the family seaside home, Margot shows up unexpectedly to rekindle the sisterly bond and offer her own brand of "support." What ensues is a nakedly honest and subversively funny look at family dynamics.
Amazon.com:
The porcelain beauty of Nicole Kidman provides the perfect face for narcissism in Margot at the Wedding, writer/director Noah Baumbach's follow-up to his justly praised The Squid and the Whale. When Margot (Kidman) comes to attend the wedding of her sister Pauline (Jennifer Jason Leigh) with her son Claude (Zane Pais, making his film debut), it seems as if a family rift is being mended--but soon Margot and Pauline, despite their best efforts, revert to their most dysfunctional selves. It doesn't help that Pauline's fiance (Jack Black) is woefully depressed, Margot's lover (Ciaran Hinds, Rome) is as narcissistic as she is, and Margot's estranged husband (John Turturro) can't recognize how Margot cringes at his every effort at reconciliation. Margot at the Wedding may sound like a festival of neurosis, and it is--but the deft and subtle script, fully-lived-in performances, and empathic direction create moments so vivid you can't help but be drawn into the characters' ragged lives. At the movie's center is a mother-son relationship both loving and poisonous, portrayed with stark clarity. Kidman is the mirror image of Jeff Daniels as the arrogant father in The Squid and the Whale; she pulls her child down with her as she sinks in self-absorption. Pais, with a simple but heartbreaking performance, gives the brittle movie a sympathetic core. --Bret Fetzer
Average Rating: 
Rating:  -
I tried - I really did - the house and Southampton setting lured me in. I quit 20 minutes in - there is just nothing to recommend this film. And no, I don't need happy ending movies either. It was the script I guess - maybe the acting as well. And some scenes you wondered why they were there at all - skip this one.
Rating: -
Not a very enjoyable film but watching it can add to one's understanding of humanity...Very real characters with no answers but attempting to find them with great courage...
"We don't love people because they are perfect because if we did, we'd have no one to love"
"A person who falls in love with themselves will have no competition
Rating:  -
I almost gave this five stars but the film's overwhelming negativity and dour nature prevented that. I can understand that writer director Noah Baumbach did not want to make a Hollywood movie--in fact, in this film, he essentially bends over backwards to make an ANTI-Hollywood movie--but surely there might be some shred of hope or positivity to identify with. But that's not the case here.
Instead we have a film of tremendous intelligence in that it does a masterful job at portraying ... Read More
Rating:  -
I loved this movie! This is real life. A family drawn together for a wedding, and chaos ensues. Here's the ingredients:
-an abundance of drama
-judgements
-unconditional and conditional love
-pure hatred
-bitter rage
-shouting
-lies
-dark humor at your expense
-poor advice with their best interest in mind
-sexual content (not incestual)
-insecurities
-croquet with F-bombs
This movie won't appeal to many people. ... Read More
Rating: -
I like the spotlighted customer review that starts "few know the dysfunctional family like Noah Baumbach." Exactly. Baumbach's semi-autobiographical The Squid and the Whale (Special Edition) had that in spades. "Margot at the Wedding" continues in that same vein.
The Amazon review says that "the porcelain beauty of Nicole Kidman provides the perfect face for narcissism." Let me fix that for you: "You can't take your eyes off the massive expanse of Nicole Kidman's overly-Botoxed forehead." ... Read More
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