Rachel Getting Married DVD : released on Mar.10, 09

Pitched between Robert Altman's A Wedding and Noah Baumbach's Margot at the Wedding - but more cautiously optimistic than both - Rachel Getting Married marks a change in the course of director Jonathan Demme. Granted, a few Oscar winners have had a more varied path. After a series of documentaries and remakes, the Silence of the Lambs Helmer tries his hand at the intimate chamber drama. With the help of actress Anne Hathaway and screenwriter Jenny Lumet, daughter of filmmaker Sidney, he pulls it off. The festivities kick into high gear once Kym (Hathaway, soiled with eyeliner and unkempt hair) takes a break from rehab for her sister, the big day. It soon becomes apparent that Kym, her wounded soul who hides behind a veil of sarcasm, as a resident Buchman's black sheep. The problem goes beyond drugs to a tragedy in which she played a role. As Kym, bride Rachel (Mad Men's Rosemary Dewitt), their parents (Bill Irwin and Debra Winger), groom Sidney (TV on the Radio's Tunde Adebimpe), and the rest of the Bohemian Connecticut brood struggle with the past, marriage remain rewarded by the performance of the past as collaborators Demme Sister Carol East (Something Wild) and Robyn Hitchcock (Storefront Hitchcock). The time between the reception and after-party contain humor, affection, and painful revelations. In the press notes, Demme says he and filmmaker Declan Quinn (in America) has tried for a movie that looked like "The most beautiful home movie ever made." The use of handheld cameras and believably flawed characters, they have done that.

Actors: Anne Hathaway
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Number of discs: 1
Rating: R
Studio: Sony Pictures Classics
DVD Release Date: March 10, 2009
Run Time: 113 minutes