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Father of the Bride (1991) -- A creative military dad finds a way to celebrate his daughter's wedding day while deployed in Iraq. John Blackstone reports.
Father of the Bride (1991) -- In this remake of the Spencer Tracy classic, George and Nina Banks are the parents of young soon-to-be-wed Annie...

Overview

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Director:
Charles Shyer
Writers (WGA):
Frances Goodrich (screenplay) &
Albert Hackett (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
20 December 1991 (USA) more
Genre:
Family | Comedy more
Tagline:
Love is wonderful. Until it happens to your only daughter. more
Plot:
In this remake of the Spencer Tracy classic, George and Nina Banks are the parents of young soon-to-be-wed Annie... more | add synopsis
Awards:
1 win & 3 nominations more
User Comments:
Steve Martin's second favorite film he has starred in. I can see why. more

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Runtime:
105 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby

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Trivia:
Tom Irish made his film debut in the 1950 version, Father of the Bride (1950). more
Goofs:
Continuity: It is made a point on the day of the wedding that George has been cheated and is wearing a blue tuxedo. However, in every scene during and after the wedding, with the exception of one, he is wearing a black tux. more
Quotes:
Bryan: I just wanna say that I'm an upstanding citizen. I've never been engaged before. I've never really been in love before. And I think Annie's the greatest person I've ever met. And I can't wait to marry her and one day have children, and grand children. And I'm going to do my best to be supportive of her dreams. She's a very gifted architect. I'm just thrilled that I met her. I love your daughter. The feelings I have for her are never gonna change. I'm here to stay. more
Movie Connections:
Featured in 1992 MTV Movie Awards (1992) (TV) more
Soundtrack:
(Today I Met) The Boy I'm Gonna Marry more

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15 out of 15 people found the following comment useful:-
Steve Martin's second favorite film he has starred in. I can see why., 27 March 2004
Author: MovieAddict2009 from UK

The sweetness that "Father of the Bride" exudes does not stem from the fact that it is funny, but rather because it is honest. It's a remake of the 1950s Spencer Tracy classic (which is great in its own right), but has more warmth about it than that film did. It doesn't rely on slapstick as much as it does on the realistic and ironic lead performance by Steve Martin. This is Martin's second favorite film that he has starred in (behind "Planes, Trains and Automobiles" and followed by "Little Shop of Horrors"), and I can see why.

Martin stars as George Banks, a wealthy upper-class businessman living in Suburban America with a gentle wife (Diane Keaton) and feisty son (Kieran Culkin). His oldest daughter (Kimberly Williams) has finally grown up and departed the house, and the day she comes home with a fiancée he literally has a panic attack.

She's getting married to possibly the most sensitive man in the world, but George is oblivious to this. All he sees are two big words flashing about the room: LOSING and DAUGHTER. But he is even more upset when he realizes the cost of the wedding: about a couple hundred dollars per head, multiplied by six hundred. You do the math.

Nina (Keaton) and her daughter hire Franck Eggelhoffer to handle the wedding, and Eggelhoffer is one of Martin Short's finest roles. Short, an ex-"SNL" member, and star of "Three Amigos" (which also starred Martin), is simply hilarious as the ecstatic and eccentric Frenchman. Amidst the ceremony's setup procedures, George cannot believe he is the only one who realizes just how crazy the cost of the wedding is.

Let's get this straight: "Father of the Bride" is nothing great. It's been done before, and it will be done again (and it has). Yet because of a likable and warm presence, the movie is more than just the sentimental goo that it nearly becomes at certain points throughout. It's truthful, blunt, and occasionally rather funny, which makes for an entertaining and extremely likable motion picture.

This is not Steve Martin's greatest role. That honor would go to his portrayal of frustrated advertising executive Neal Page in "Planes, Trains and Automobiles." But here he provides us with a character almost as realistic, touching and likable. Neal was the character we empathized with in "Planes," and in "Bride" it's essentially the same for Martin. We're seeing the world through his eyes - which explains the reason it is quite often very overwhelming and comical.

The movie indeed benefits from Martin's portrayal of a worried father - not as scared by the fact that his daughter is getting married, as he is by the idea that he will undoubtedly lose her to another man. It's a turning point in both their lives, but it doubles for him. Not only has he essentially lost his daughter, but also he has also just been faced with the reality that he is old enough to nearly be a granddad. This would leave good room for a sequel. Oh, wait...

4/5 stars.

- John Ulmer

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