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DVD : A WeddingIn association with Amazon.comstarring: Carol Burnett, Geraldine Chaplin, Mia Farrow, Lillian Gish, Lauren Hutton directed by: Robert Altman  List Price: $14.98 Amazon.com's Price: $13.49 You Save: $1.49 (10%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) Binding: DVD Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT EAN: 0024543400790 Format: Anamorphic, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen Label: 20th Century Fox Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: 20th Century Fox Region Code: 1 Release Date: June 12, 2007 Running Time: 125 minutes Studio: 20th Century Fox Theatrical Release Date: August 29, 1978 Sales Rank: 42899 MPN: FOXD2240079D Related Items:
Editorial Review: Description: Robert Altman looks at the institution of marriage and finds hilarity. All-star cast includes Carol Burnett, Lauren Hutton, Dina Merrill, Mia Farrow and Pat mccormick. Amazon.com: After the intensity of 3 Women, Robert Altman joked that he would relieve the pressure by "shooting a wedding." Fittingly, A Wedding, like many of his ensemble efforts, is part serious and part comic--much like the man himself. It begins with the ceremony, where brace-faced Muffin (Amy Stryker) and two-timing Dino (Desi Arnaz Jr.) are joined in holy matrimony by a rickety old bishop (John Cromwell, anticipating Rowan Atkinson's bumbler in Four Weddings and a Funeral). At the rambling reception, other parties come into play, including the parents (Carol Burnett and Paul Dooley vs. Anita Van Pallandt and Vittorio Gassman), the silent sister (Mia Farrow), the stressed-out wedding coordinator (Geraldine Chaplin), and the pesky photographer (Lauren Hutton). Then there's Dino's frail grandmother (Lillian Gish), who'll be lucky to make it through the day alive. As in Gosford Park, Altman spends as much time with the well-heeled guests as the behind-the-scenes staff. If anything can go wrong as these divergent personalities come together, it does. Regarding the 48 cast members, his son Stephen quips in the accompanying featurette, "I think he just wanted to double the 24 actors that were in Nashville." If they don't all register, A Wedding still ranks as one of the more democratic films ever made (the director's three co-writers all have bit parts). The film, which grows darker and more chaotic as it hurtles ahead, may be "minor Altman," but as wedding-related satires go, this widescreen effort stands tall. Suffice to say, hide-bound traditionalists need not apply. --Kathleen C. Fennessy Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Carol Burnett & Desi Arnaz Jr.I love this movie. Carol Burnett and Desi Arnaz Jr. along with a dozen of other misfit carachters at the worst wedding of the century. Bridesmaids of horror and a maid of honor in love with her father and every other man, and best men who one is in love with the groom...what a wacky Robert Altman film. This film will keep you laughing and in suspense at the finale. I saw this movie when it came out in the theaters because of CB and DA Jr. but you won't be disappointed with the appearances of ... Read More Rating: - A Wedding: A Personal OpinionAltman chose a site just a couple of miles from my home in Lake Bluff, Illinois for the location of the mansion in this film. So naturally I was very interested in how it would turn out. The director's touch is unerring here. I was very quickly drawn into the subtley of its approach. He surprised me once or twice with outrageously funny moments. Lauren Hutton is a delight. Less overt storytelling than in the better known Altman classics perhaps, but no less an artfully crafted film. The ending ... Read More Rating: - My favorite Robert Altman film . . .It is. I could go downstairs right now and watch "A Wedding"--for the upteenth time--and enjoy it all over again. I LOVE this film--even more than Altman's masterpiece, "Nashville". I saw "A Wedding" in the theater when I was a teenager--and, of course, I adored Carol Burnett (still do), so I had to see it. And I believe it was the first Altman film I ever saw, and from that moment on, I was a devoted fan of his. "A Wedding" has over 40 main characters and lots of plots and subplots, but ... Read More Rating: - Artwork screw-up!That's not Howard Duff!I got a copy of "A Wedding" when it was included in the Robert Altman Collection. The packaging included in the collection had the original artwork from the movie poster with the three cherubs doing the "hear no evil, speak no evil, see no evil" bit. But the artwork on this individual release has individual pictures of stars that are suppose to correspond to their names. But Vittorio Gassman's picture has Howard Duff's name above it! Tacky and careless!..... Love the movie, but glad I have the original artwork. ... Read More Rating: - Altman at his BEST!!!!This movie is a little slow the first half hour, but if you like altman's comedic style, this will be one of your favorites. I've seen this movie about 30 times. It's gets better and better. Browse for similar items by category:
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