Cheerful Weather For The Wedding (2012)
Average Rating: 5.2/10
Reviews Counted: 26
Fresh: 9 | Rotten: 17
No consensus yet.
Average Rating: 5.5/10
Critic Reviews: 10
Fresh: 4 | Rotten: 6
No consensus yet.
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Average Rating: 2.8/5
User Ratings: 340
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On her wedding day, with just hours to go until the ceremony, a young woman's future is suddenly thrown into chaos by the appearance of a former lover. (c)Official Site
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Cast
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Felicity Jones
Dolly Thatcham -
Luke Treadaway
Joseph -
Elizabeth McGovern
Dolly's Mother, Mrs. Th... -
MacKenzie Crook
David Dakin -
Fenella Woolgar
Nancy Dakin -
Zoe Tapper
Evelyn Graham -
Julian Wadham
Uncle Bob -
Sophie Stanton
Millman -
Olly Alexander
Tom -
Ellie Kendrick
Kitty Thatcham -
Paola Dionisotti
Mrs. Whitstable -
James Norton
Owen Bigham -
Luke Ward-Wilkinson
Robert -
Barbara Flynn
Aunt Bella -
John Standing
Horace Spigott -
Eva Traynor
Annie -
Elizzabeth Webster
Betty -
Kenneth Collard
Whitstable -
Ben Greaves-Neal
Jimmy Dakin -
Joanna Hole
Miss Spoon -
Camilla Corbett
Alice -
Oliver Gilbert
George -
Emil Lager
Aunt Bella's Chauffeur -
Melanie Gray
Pretty Woman -
Edward Saxby
Tony Bigham -
Jonathan Saxby
Tiger Bigham -
Jim Conway
Photographer -
John MacDonald
Piper
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All Critics (26) | Top Critics (10) | Fresh (9) | Rotten (17)
The film builds up to something that never comes.
Top CriticRice does a fine job of juggling so many characters and moving smoothly among flashbacks without losing sight of the main story.
What it doesn't have is drama or wisdom or comedy or heat, something to temper the banalities.
Not to say it isn't an enjoyable diversion. Just that it's also a superficial one.
The glossy appearance and trappings may evoke standard Anglophile nostalgia, but below the veneer is a cynical portrait of bored, shallow Britons halfheartedly going through the motions of a celebration.
The dominance of the madcap side of the film's split personality lays an airy veneer over Dolly and Joseph's woes, making them seem inconsequential - as unsubstantial as an observation about wedding-day weather.
..this costume drama set in the lull between World Wars is drawn from Julia Strachey's 1932 novella (apparently much-loved by Virginia Woolf) and proves to be almost impossibly English.
With the critical narrative information delayed until the film's final moments, it's a waiting game for the audience, not unpleasurably spent watching the gorgeous costumes and eccentric behaviour of the family and friends of an anxious bride.
If you're seriously white-knuckling for a dose of English Period Countryside Romanticism while waiting for Downton's next season to roll, Cheerful Weather for the Wedding will be like methadone: it's not going to satisfy you, but it may relieve your itch.
Period drama has simmering conflict, lacks resolution.
There's more to period drama than nice frocks and acerbic asides.
A languid film that fizzles from the start.
A very mannered but deadly dull period piece drama of partially upended, stuffy social customs, and a ruinous vehicle for the incandescence of Felicity Jones.
Something happened, you see, and someone or other felt something about it. Why that should matter, why we should care, is lost in a string of bons mots, sidelong glances and frocks.
The Donald Rice film suffers most from an excessively blunt approach.
Strictly recommended for the besotted Anglophile set who revel in watching endless versions of the privileged set enjoying their privileges.
Entertains intermittently with its stiff-upper-lip community interplay, only truly taking command when it focuses on unspoken desires and stymied confessions.
Without a source as rich as Jane Austen to draw on, Cheerful Weather feels incomplete, caroming off previous stories without forging its own way.
A welcome addition to the wedding comedy sub genre, light on its feet and brimming with vivid character portraits.
Audience Reviews for Cheerful Weather For The Wedding
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- Joseph: Rumour has it Tiger has a tattoo but it's never been located. Kitty, it's up to you to find it for us.
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- Dolly's Mother: I may be very dense, I freely confess, but I utterly fail to understand it.
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