Betsy's Wedding

R

Released Jun 22, 1990

1h 34m

Comedy

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56%

16 Reviews

Tomatometer

39%

5,000+ Ratings

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Jake (Dylan Walsh) and Betsy (Molly Ringwald) are a young couple looking to tie the knot. Content with an understated, intimate wedding, Jake and Betsy's plans go out the window when Betsy's working-class folks, Eddie (Alan Alda) and Lola (Madeline Kahn), feel compelled to go over the top after they meet Harry and Nancy, Jake's high-class parents. In need of financial help, Eddie enlists a shady in-law (Joe Pesci) for assistance, which only exacerbates matters.

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It's a decent wacky wedding disaster movie. It doesn't do much that's memorable, or unique, but it's a fun enough distraction. It's got a solid cast, so that helps. Though I was more interested in the relationship between Sheedy and LaPaglia.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

09/10/20

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Boy, I think the reviewers--critics and audience alike--must have seen a different movie to have rated this so low. My family and I throughly enjoyed everything about it--the cast, the script, the situations, the memorable lines. We still go around quoting from it. Every now and then I have to watch this again--for Stevie Dee alone, who is worth the price of admission.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/13/23

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This is kept together and made funnier by O'Hara, Pesci and, save for the accent slip from LaPaglia who also was good, Burt Young.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

02/19/23

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Audience Member

Sheedy and LaPaglia are beautiful together and that's a good thing because every moment they're not on the screen we miss them.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

02/04/23

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It was an okay movie in that wacky wedding genre, but while the build up was pretty great, the wedding itself was less than 20 minutes and was a bit of a letdown. I did enjoy most of the cast. Alda and Kahn are great as the parents, but Ringwald as Betsy was a bit of a miss for me. She got downright annoying at one point in the film, and her hair & clothes styles were both awful. Her choices for wedding dresses, also bad. She was set up to be a hip girl with the trend times, but everything seemed so awful about her. I really loved Sheedy here though. Best thing about this movie. Her love story with LaPaglia was off for me, just cause they way he talked the whole time. Would women really fall for that? Pesci was fun at times, but then the dick we all know he is in every movie comes out after awhile. Dylan Walsh in an early role is kind of just there, and Burt Young and Catherine O'Hara were pretty much wasted and not developed at all. And while Samuel L. Jackson is credited as the MAN AT WEDDING, I don't recall seeing him. There was ONE African American guy at the wedding I could see, and it was not him. Maybe his scene was cut? It has so fun overall, but it just fails to deliver the all out wedding it builds up and Betsy herself is kind of unlikable.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

01/27/23

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Audience Member

Not Sensational! Just plain jane material. Molly Ringwalds worst movie as Betsy. A stand-out from her family just wants a small wedding. Her father needs a hearing aid obviously he's a bad listener in threat of soon to be inlaws. Betsy and her wedding become a money circus. Juggling a dysfunctional wedding goes down the drain. the love is questionable. Sad to say it wasn't worth watching, clinging for humor i didn't even giggle. such a waste time!

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

02/04/23

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Alan Alda

Director

Alan Alda

Eddie Hopper

Madeline Kahn

Lola Hopper

Molly Ringwald

Betsy Hopper

Ally Sheedy

Connie Hopper

Anthony LaPaglia

Stevie Dee

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William Thomas

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Most of the people who see this will own funnier home videos of wedding disasters.

Rated: 2/5

Jan 6, 2017

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Owen Gleiberman

Entertainment Weekly

Rated: B

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Variety Staff

Variety

From a bolt of ordinary cloth Alan Alda fashions a thoroughly engaging matrimonial romp.

Feb 12, 2009

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Graham Young

Birmingham Mail

Alda may have more than 20 top awards to his name, but this is a total nightmare of a production.

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Philip French

Observer (UK)

The kindly, ingratiating Betsy's Wedding, written and directed by its star Alan Alda, stands in the same relationship to Robert Altman's abrasive, unpredictable A Wedding that Alda's liberal TV series MASH occupies vis-à-vis the anarchic Altman movie.

Oct 18, 2023

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Christopher Tookey

Sunday Telegraph (UK)

There's a good pace, funny one-liners and enjoyable performances from the ubiquitous Joe Pesci as a sleazy uncle, Ally Sheedy as a vulnerable woman cop, and -- best of all -- Anthony LaPaglia as an earnest, Runyonesque young Mafioso.

Oct 17, 2023

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Synopsis

Jake (Dylan Walsh) and Betsy (Molly Ringwald) are a young couple looking to tie the knot. Content with an understated, intimate wedding, Jake and Betsy's plans go out the window when Betsy's working-class folks, Eddie (Alan Alda) and Lola (Madeline Kahn), feel compelled to go over the top after they meet Harry and Nancy, Jake's high-class parents. In need of financial help, Eddie enlists a shady in-law (Joe Pesci) for assistance, which only exacerbates matters.

Director: Alan Alda
Production Co: Touchstone Pictures
Rating: R
Genre: Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jun 22, 1990, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Mar 1, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA): $19.7M
Runtime: 1h 34m
Sound Mix: Surround

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