The Great Movie Re-Watch
Director:
Charles Shyer
Writers:
Francis Goodrich
Albert Hackett
Nancy Myers
Charles Shyer
Starring:
Steve Martin
Diane Keaton
Kimberly Williams-Paisley
Blurb:
With his oldest daughter’s wedding approaching, a father finds himself reluctant to let go.
Thoughts:
I believe Father of the Bride is the first movie I’ve watched that was purchased for background watching. It’s a movie I like well enough, but it’s nothing remarkable. The best part, in my opinion, is the house. Everything else is rich people’s problems. Like seriously, spending $150k on a wedding in 1991 is stupid. This is coming from someone who had a super small wedding at a chapel in the mountains for $100 plus the cost of a license. Weddings are not my thing, but the house is that gorgeous.
As a parent of young children, I also don’t understand the whole not wanting to give his kid away. He doesn’t own his daughter, and yet that’s how he acts the entire movie. She’s his, and now he’s giving her to someone else. It’s an odd school view of things that I’ve never shared and found un-relatable. Not that I’m looking to give my kids away or anything, lol
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