Mother of the Bride

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Mother of the Bride

Released May 9, 2024

1h 28m

Romance

Comedy

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Lana's daughter Emma returns from abroad and drops a bombshell: she's getting married. In Thailand. In a month! Things only get worse when Lana learns that the man who captured Emma's heart is the son of the man who broke hers years ago.

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Critics Consensus

Mother of the Bride serves an oft-overlooked demographic and takes us to crystalline beaches before it ceremonially drowns in generic waters.

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Robert Levin

Newsday

It's an hour-and-a-half that feels like a decade, so you're left desperately searching for something to end the misery.

Rated: 0/4

May 21, 2024

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Marah Eakin

Chicago Reader

Netflix’s newest rom-com is middling and mindless.

May 13, 2024

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Tim Robey

Daily Telegraph (UK)

The film's match-making subtlety, let's say, is some way short of Jane Austen level.

Rated: 2/5

May 9, 2024

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Dennis Schwartz

Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews

A shallow escapist pic that I couldn't escape from until it ended.

Rated: C-

Aug 19, 2024

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Eddie Harrison

film-authority.com

...weary identikit romcom will probably generate the requisite clicks...fairly harmless, fairly inoffensive, remarkably bland fare, for couch potatoes who can’t be bothered watching an actual film, and that seems to be partly what Netflix cater for…

Rated: 2/5

Aug 13, 2024

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Susan Granger

SSG Syndicate

This flimsy, forgettable rom-com is populated by superficially 'pretty people' - bland, underdeveloped stereotypes - and each shallow, awkward scene is more predictable than the one preceding it.

Rated: 3/10

Jul 27, 2024

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G P

I don’t get the really low audience score. The film is what you assume it will be. Light-hearted, fun, predictable and an easy watch. Whether you want something to take your mind off life or have it in the background as you do something else, it does what it’s supposed to do.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

03/09/25

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Julie M

What the actual fuj! End of the movie threw me off. In what in the Alabama is going on. Parents of the bride and groom married each other??? So your mom is your step mom and your step dad is also father in law?! What a dumb movie. ZERO STAR!!!

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

02/10/25

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Christian S

Just tried way too hard on satisfying folks who would not watch this movie in the first place... it had potential.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

02/09/25

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Mark B

This is just bad. Not a character I liked or cared about. Not funny.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

01/07/25

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Julian S

A mindless film elevated by a seasoned supporting cast, who are the sole reason to give it any attention.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

01/07/25

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Neeraj K

what kind of twisted fruck porn industry mentality movie

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

12/16/24

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Synopsis

Lana's daughter Emma returns from abroad and drops a bombshell: she's getting married. In Thailand. In a month! Things only get worse when Lana learns that the man who captured Emma's heart is the son of the man who broke hers years ago.

Director: Mark Waters
Producer: Brad Krevoy
Screenwriter: Robin Bernheim
Distributor: Netflix
Production Co: Living Films
Genre: Romance, Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): May 9, 2024, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): May 9, 2024
Runtime: 1h 28m

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