Betsy's Wedding

Betsy's Wedding

1990 · 94 min · EN · R · 5.7 (40 votes)
Dir. Alan Alda · Starring Alan Alda, Joey Bishop, Madeline Kahn, Anthony LaPaglia, Catherine O'Hara, Joe Pesci · Music Bruce Broughton

The wedding picture doesn't always tell the real story.

Comedy

Offbeat fashion student Betsy Hopper and her straight-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.

VIBE

A frantic, over-the-top farce where escalating family pressures and financial woes collide. Expect escalating chaos and cringe-worthy moments as a wedding spirals hilariously out of control.

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