Margot At The Wedding Page #2

Synopsis: A slice of family life: sisters, husbands, children, history, secrets, jealousies. Margot and her teen son, Claude, travel from Manhattan to her family's Long Island home, occupied by sister Pauline, Pauline's daughter, and Malcolm, the slacker Pauline will marry outdoors that week under a tree neighbors want removed. Backbiting marks family discussion, particularly between the sisters and in Margot's cutting remarks to Claude. Pauline tells Margot a secret that Margot promptly tells Claude. Margot dislikes Malcolm and undermines him. She also has marital problems and a lover nearby. People are cruel, inside and outside their families. Is there a refuge for Margot or for Pauline?
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Director(s): Noah Baumbach
Production: Paramount Vantage
  3 wins & 13 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.1
Metacritic:
66
Rotten Tomatoes:
52%
R
Year:
2007
91 min
$1,929,081
Website
395 Views


- You only liked Top 40.

- That's true. But I love R.E.M. Now.

I don't really listen to music anymore.

I was dating that guy Horace back then.

Do you remember him?

Was that the guy

that liked to rough you up?

No, that was our dad.

Our dad used to strip down to

his skiwies and beat us with a belt.

That man had a sexual screw loose.

That's awful that stuff

that happens to kids.

Malcolm was fondled

by a male babysitter.

Just use that information

however you want.

I'm sorry, we're with family. I figured...

I think Becky got it the worst.

Did she ever.

Raped by the horse trainer.

Alan rolled over in bed and he looked

at me and he said, "I can't feel my face. "

It took three doctors before

we knew it was Bell's Palsy.

They say a brush of wind can do it.

Feeling is slowly coming back.

We're all getting older, which is terrible.

I don't care how universal it is.

I can't remember names anymore.

I have that.

I blank out on certain words now, too.

The other day I couldn't remember

the word for...

I've forgotten it again. The stuff in wine.

What is it? Sediment. That's it.

I know that. I was talking more about

not remembering who was

the bassist for Mtley Cre.

Ingrid. Why don't you show Claude

and Bruce the game trunk?

Okay.

Mick Mars.

Toby, I think you need to have

Bruce diagnosed.

Margot, I don't wanna have

this conversation with you.

It's vital. If you keep telling him

he's like everyone else,

he's gonna wonder why he isn't.

He's suffering.

He's tested very well.

He does B's in school.

But that's how autism works.

One part of the brain can be fine,

and then the other part is damaged.

We've had him diagnosed, Margot.

Nothing was found wrong.

Did you really, though?

I'm not gonna have this conversation.

I'm sorry.

I know this must be so difficult for you,

but you have to...

What are you doing?

I left you a note.

Come back.

Or meet me in Vermont on Saturday.

No. No. The wedding is on Saturday.

I'm here for that. I can't pull out.

How would that look?

You haven't spoken to her in years.

Well, we're speaking now.

She is my closest friend, despite it all.

You were the one that kept trying

to get me to call her.

Did you tell Claude what you're doing?

Jim, this guy, Malcolm,

he's exactly what you'd imagine,

except I think he's clinically depressed.

He's not ugly.

He's just completely unattractive.

He has no job.

Best I can make out is

he's a letter writer. I don't know.

And the house looks weird to me.

She's trying too hard.

It's all kind of a mess.

They took down the swing.

Hello?

You said you weren't 100% on this.

You said that like a week ago.

Can I come up there?

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Noah Baumbach

Noah Baumbach is an American independent filmmaker. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for The Squid and the Whale and is known for making dramatic comedies. more…

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