Father of the Bride
- cosy
- gentle
- redemptive
- tender
Cosy, steady, gentle comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender.
How every film is hand-scored →George Banks is an ordinary, middle-class man whose 22 year-old daughter Annie has decided to marry a man from an upper-class family, but George can't think of what life would be like without his daughter. His wife tries to make him happy for Annie, but when the wedding takes place at their home and a foreign wedding planner takes over the ceremony, he becomes slightly insane.
Our read · Father of the Bride (1991) reads as a cosy, steady, grounded comedy · drama · romance entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
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The shape of Father of the Bride
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The reading.
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