Father of the Bride (1991)

User Rating:

6.3/10   

Director:

Charles Shyer

Writers (WGA):

Frances Goodrich (screenplay) &
Albert Hackett (screenplay) ...

Release Date:

20 December 1991 (USA)

Genre:

Family | Comedy

Tagline:

Love is wonderful. Until it happens to your only daughter.

Plot:

In this remake of the Spencer Tracy classic, George and Nina Banks are the parents of young soon-to-be-wed Annie...

Plot Keywords:

Wedding | Wedding Planner | Remake | Family Relationships | Husband Wife Relationship

Awards:

1 win & 3 nominations

Cast

Steve Martin	...	George Banks
Diane Keaton	...	Nina Banks
Kimberly Williams-Paisley	...	Annie Banks (as Kimberly Williams)
Kieran Culkin	...	Matty Banks
George Newbern	...	Bryan MacKenzie
Martin Short	...	Franck Eggelhoffer
B.D. Wong	...	Howard Weinstein
Peter Michael Goetz	...	John MacKenzie
Kate McGregor-Stewart	...	Joanna MacKenzie
Carmen Hayward	...	Grace
April Ortiz	...	Olivia
Mina Vasquez	...	Marta
Gibby Brand	...	David
Richard Portnow	...	Al - the Tux Salesman
Barbara Perry	...	Female Factory Worker

Also Known As:

El padre de la novia (Argentina) (Peru) (Spain) [es]
Le père de la mariée (Canada: French title) (France) [fr]
O Pai da Noiva (Brazil) (Portugal) [pt]
Örömapa (Hungary) [hu]
Avi Ha-Kala (Israel: Hebrew title) [iw]
Brudens far (Sweden) [sv]
Il padre della sposa (Italy) [it]
Morsiamen isä (Finland) [fi]
O babas tis nyfis (Greece) [el]
Ojciec panny mlodej (Poland) [pl]
Tatal miresei (Romania) [ro]
Vater der Braut (Germany) [de]

Runtime:

105 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

Iceland:L | South Korea:All | Peru:PT | Argentina:Atp | Australia:G | Chile:TE | Finland:S | Germany:6 | Ireland:12RA (video rating) | Ireland:12 (original rating) | Singapore:PG | Spain:T | Sweden:Btl | UK:PG | USA:PG

Filming Locations:

1015 California Avenue, Santa Monica, California, USA

Company:

Sandollar Productions

Trivia:

Tom Irish made his film debut in the 1950 version, Father of the Bride (1950).

Goofs:

Continuity: The huge chandelier in the dining room disappears and reappears throughout the film.

Quotes:

George: I used to think a wedding was a simple affair. Boy and girl meet, they fall in love, he buys a ring, she buys a dress, they say I do. I was wrong. That's getting married. A wedding is an entirely different proposition. I know. I've just been through one...

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Game K N B: Celebrity Fathers" (2006)

Soundtrack:

Volare

Hilarious nonsense, but with a deep and meaningfull insight.

OK, OK, the characters are a little bit "Brady Bunch" - sweet little Annie, the perfect daughter, George, the doting and totally befuddled father, and Nina, the soothing, calming, hold-it-all-together wife and mother. They're a little bit larger than life in this classic comic, but who cares! For any father who loves his daughter, this movie simply can't be watched without feeling a tearing at the heart and a lump in the throat. Father of The Bride can be viewed purely as a bit of light-hearted comedy that mocks the way Dads can sometimes be, but by looking just a little deeper, it contains valuable information that could help many a daughter understand her Dad, and offers many a Dad some consolation that he is not alone, and that someone out there understands the separation pains he is going through as his most precious treasure begins to spread her wings and look elsewhere than the first man she ever loved. This is a tough time for many fathers, and mothers and daughters very often don't understand their erratic, paranoid and irrational behaviour. Father of The Bride explores this phenomenon with what was for me an amazingly accurate depiction of the emotional turmoil that goes on in the head of a man who cherishes his daughter's love and feels threatened and reduntant when another man enters the picture. Goodrich and Hackett have constructed it brilliantly, and Steve Martin expresses it perfectly in this most elegant of love stories. The movie takes some shortcuts - for most of us, the separation pains don't do us the courtesy of waiting till the engagement - they come much earlier than that, when out of the blue some stranger comes into our daughter's life. Martin demonstrates the pain and fear and anxiety that every daughter's Dad feels as some blow-in comes and lays a claim on his beloved child. A must for every Dad with a teen princess, and for the Mums and Daughters I strongly recommend that instead of just laughing and saying "hahahah - that's Dad all over", read between the lines to see just why Dad is the way he is. Loved it every time I've seen it (3 or 4 times now).