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The Catered Affair (Wedding Breakfast) (1956)

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Bette Davis goes the "kitchen sink drama" route in The Catered Affair. As the frowsy wife of Bronx cabdriver Ernest Borgnine, Davis insists that her daughter Debbie Reynolds have a high-class wedding--caterers and all. Reynolds and future hubby Rod Taylor want a simple ceremony, but Davis' mind is made up. The wedding snowballs into an unwieldy affair as Davis and Borgnine find that they must invite everyone they know or risk incurring the wrath of their neighborhood. When the cost of the affair

Unrated, 1 hr. 32 min.

Drama, Comedy

Gore Vidal

Feb 27, 1991

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All Critics (6) | Top Critics (3) | Fresh (1) | Rotten (5)

Overall, the performances are good and there are occasionally amusing and touching momemts in the otherwise talky, mostly drab, affair under Richard Brooks' direction.

April 8, 2008 Full Review Source: Variety | Comment
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Richard Brooks directed in a sort of free-wheeling way that carries the action jumpily from poignancy to farce and from moments of frowsy frustration to scenes of vulgar squawling en famille.

March 25, 2006 Full Review Source: New York Times | Comment
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The tragedy got lost somewhere in Richard Brooks's crushingly blunt direction.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | Comment
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This eminently watchable misfire divides amateur and professional critics alike.

April 8, 2008 Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | Comment
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Kitchen Sink Realism Paddy Chayefsky style and Bette Davis as a frumpy Bronx housewife sounds like contradiction in terms, and it is.

March 25, 2008 Full Review Source: EmanuelLevy.Com | Comment

Plays like Marty but without the same winsome appeal.

November 26, 2007 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews | Comment
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Good simple kitchen sink drama with lovely well obseved performances from all.

April 6, 2008
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jay nixon

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The Catered AffairThis is ok. The characters got on my nerves. Their actions were rather cliche.

April 27, 2008
chandy64
Jennifer Russett

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