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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:
Hilarious nonsense, but with a deep and meaningfull insight. more

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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]
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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: The huge chandelier in the dining room disappears and reappears throughout the film. more
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... more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in "Game K N B: Celebrity Fathers" (2006) more
Soundtrack:
Volare more

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14 out of 18 people found the following comment useful:-
Hilarious nonsense, but with a deep and meaningfull insight., 30 November 2003
Author: Webratt from Melbourne,Australia

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).

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