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El Hijo de la novia (Son of the Bride) (2001)

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Average Rating: 7.3/10
Reviews Counted: 57
Fresh: 49 | Rotten: 8

A film about one man's mid-life crisis, The Son of the Bride is both touching and funny.

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Average Rating: 6.8/10
Critic Reviews: 18
Fresh: 13 | Rotten: 5

A film about one man's mid-life crisis, The Son of the Bride is both touching and funny.

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A family wedding brings out the best and the worst in the various parties involved in this warm but pointed comedy-drama. Rafael Belvedere (Ricardo Darin) makes his living running the restaurant ran by his father, Nino (Hector Alterio), and the combination of a stressful job and familial tensions are wearing him down to a frazzle. Rafael is divorced from his wife, Sandra (Claudia Fontan), he's all but a stranger to his daughter, Vicky (Gimena Nobile), and it's been almost a year since he last

Sep 10, 2002

Sony Pictures Classics

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All Critics (65) | Top Critics (21) | Fresh (49) | Rotten (8) | DVD (2)

It's fresh, funny, biting, fast-paced and reasonably perceptive about people and their problems.

July 20, 2002 Full Review Source: Chicago Tribune | Comment
Chicago Tribune
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It's a wise and endearing little film.

June 6, 2002 Comment
Philadelphia Inquirer
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It would seem that wherever there are middle-class, midlife crises to be suffered, there are movies to be made about those crises, and they somehow all manage to transcend their local trappings in favour of a kind of borderless emotional banality.

May 10, 2002 Full Review Source: Toronto Star | Comment
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What starts off as a possible Argentine American Beauty reeks like a room stacked with pungent flowers.

May 10, 2002 Full Review Source: Globe and Mail | Comment (1)
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Like any good romance, Son of the Bride, proves it's never too late to learn.

April 26, 2002 Comment
Washington Post
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Even the digressions are funny.

April 26, 2002 Comment
Washington Post
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Juan José Campanella's The Son of the Bride isn't art, but it is artful.

December 10, 2008 Full Review Source: Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) | Comment
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

Capaz de provocar o riso e arrancar lágrimas com a mesma facilidade, este maravilhoso filme acerta em tudo: desde o excepcional roteiro à direção de Campanella, passando pelas performances irretocáveis de Darin, Alleandro e Blanco. Um clássico instantâneo

January 20, 2003 Comment
Cinema em Cena

The Son Of The Bride's humour is born out of an engaging storyline, which also isn't embarrassed to make you reach for the tissues. This movie is to be cherished.

August 21, 2002 Full Review Source: Eye for Film | Comment
Eye for Film

Una obra maestra.

August 4, 2002 Comment
Cinenganos

Son of the Bride is slight fare, but it does have it poignancies, and it is well-acted and sweet without being cloying.

July 29, 2002 Full Review | Comment
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Son of Bride misses greatness by a hair.

July 12, 2002 Full Review Source: Charlotte Observer | Comment
Charlotte Observer

It's sweet and romantic without being cloying or melodramatic.

June 27, 2002 Comment
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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Audience Reviews for El Hijo de la novia (Son of the Bride)

Campanella is one of my favourite directors, and this is for sure the greatest masterpiece of his career, one wonderful piece of work with impeccable performances and a story so moving and funny that it makes me cry rivers and laugh the same amount every time I see it.

December 10, 2009
blacksheepboy

Super Reviewer

Director Campanella lives up and delivered a funny and deeply moving story, of Rafael a fifty-something guy going through a mid-life crisis.It's quite difficult to find this kind of films, because most of the films nowadays lose sight of the most important thing, the real human emotion,the real lives, the real

April 8, 2009
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Daisy Maduro

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