Sorry, this movie sucks

Most undeservingly overhyped movie of all time??

Best movie of this year hands down!

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

I discovered this movie because one of my friends' last name is Sposato, and upon entering his name into Wikipedia he found this movie about a Sposato family set in Westerly, coincidentally our home town. I saw that Sean Patrick Flanery, one of my favorite actors, was in it, and I decided to rent this movie from Netflix. Altogether, I was not impressed. First of all, Sean Patrick Flanery is one hundred percent Irish, in case you couldn't tell, and he simply cannot pull off a character named Terranova. It just can't be done. While the movie was allegedly filmed in Westerly, Rhode Island, my friends and I recognized only one setting, and that was a brief three-second drive through down town. The portrayal of an Italian-American family was poorly done. No self respecting Italian with grandparents that came from Italy would call said grandparents "Grandma" and "Grandpa." The behavior of three of the four sisters would not be acceptable in an Italian-American home. Also, the general characterization and plot were poorly developed. Most of the characters were lifeless and flat, and the climax was so obvious it was like the script said, "Insert horribly cliché climax here." While the movie had some funny bits, some romantic bits, and some clever Italian bits, all in all it was not very impressive.

I rented three DVDs the other night and saw "Kiss the Bride" sitting on the shelf with plenty of available copies. I grabbed one because it was there. I thought it would be a funny wedding movie my wife would like to see. I put off watching it until I had seen the other two "great works of art" I had rented."Kiss the Bride" is one of the best movies I have ever seen. It is perfection. Anyone that has ever had a Mom or a Dad, sister, brother, or came from a "family" will find themselves somewhere in this movie. The cast is outstanding. The "well-known" and the "unknown" together. Vanessa Parise should be, or will be, a very powerful voice in the film industry. I hope she has the same budget for her next film. Lack of funds makes creativity the only means to a great film. She is very creative. Don't give any more money. She doesn't need it. There isn't one wasted moment in the entire movie. It's great, start to finish.

My wife brought this DVD home, unable to find anything better. It is a movie mainly for the women, from their point of view, written and directed by Vanessa Parise who also plays one of the sisters, Chrissy. The story is based loosely on her own Rhode Island Italian family. I found it an interesting viewing, although there is nothing really new here.Amanda Detmer plays 'Danni' Sposato, and as the movie opens we see her dressed in a wedding gown, on a balcony near the sea, looking for the groom. We suspect she may have been "left at the altar", but don't find out right away as the entire movie is one 85-minute flashback to the previous couple of days, as Danni's sisters come home to help her celebrate. Sure, it was a movie gimmick, but it worked OK.SPOILERS. At the end we see that Danni's whole family, along with the groom and the priest, have gathered on the sand to be a part of her wedding. This came after her rehearsal party from hell the night before where everyone was so concerned about their own situations that they were not celebrating Danni's big moment and she told them all to leave. Sean Patrick Flanery, who had been so good as "Powder", and also as Young Indy in the early 1990s, played Tom Terranova, old boyfriend of one of the sisters, Niki, the smart one who went off to Hollywood and now was in a Baywatch type of TV series. (Writer Parise was a smart one, set to go to Harvard Medical School, when she turned to acting.) Talia Shire, of Rocky fame, plays the mother. I like Amanda Detmer, she is cute as a button and a good actress to boot!

As I watched the movie I noticed there was something really wrong about it. The script, the casting, the cuts. So, as I checked on imdb to find out who wrote it. Well, Vanessa Parise wrote it, produced it, directed and acted in this...autobiographycal ego-trip trash. Maybe the title should be "all about myself, according to myself"