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Synopsis: Friends and family convene at a beach house for the wedding of Lila and Tom. But things don't go swimmingly, mainly because of one thing that Lila and her maid of honor, Laura, have in common - Tom, the groom. Laura and Tom were an item before Lila came along and nobody seems able to forget that. With very few successful marriages to look up to, and friends that she's not sure she can trust, will Lila be able to go through with the wedding?
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director(s): Galt Niederhoffer
Production: Benaroya Pictures
 
IMDB:
5.1
Metacritic:
43
Rotten Tomatoes:
14%
PG-13
Year:
2010
95 min
$100,000
Website
521 Views


- I wouldn't hold your breath.

- Oh, I will.

What happened to all

your little girlfriends?

They're mere bodies,

laying a path to you.

Sorry, guys.

God, it's like a bar mitzvah

in there. Did you see that room?

You should just have

a ''bring your own bottle...''

I'm sorry.

- You look stunning, sweetheart.

- Thank you, Mom.

Now if we could

just find your groom.

- That's funny, isn't it?

- What's funny?

I don't know, just the way

he's standing there like that.

What's funny about it?

OK, maybe funny is the wrong

word, but... strange. It's...

It is a little strange,

don't you think?

What about it is strange?

The way he's staring out to sea

like a lovesick sailor.

- He's a groom. Grooms get nervous.

- Of course.

Mother, please don't.

- You know what I think.

- Yes, I know what you think.

And... perhaps you'll

permit me to say it.

I know you will, regardless.

He has to love you more, Lila.

More than what?

More than whom?

More than you love him.

That's the only way marriage works.

Leave him alone.

How's Augusta?

She'll be fine

after a couple of cocktails.

Tom McDevon is quite a catch.

Summa graduate,

championship swimmer,

PhD candidate in English,

rather easy on the eyes.

So let's raise our glasses

to two perfect catches:

Perfect catch, perfect match.

- There goes the bloodline.

- That's enough for you.

When Tommy told me he was

marrying the lovely Lila,

I said... ''Tommy boy, you're

one lucky son of a b*tch!''

And I said, ''You know,

attraction is a very important

ingredient in any relationship.''

Sure, folks can talk all they

want about love and loyalty

and all that other sh*t,

but the important thing is...

if she doesn't

make your wiener hard...

...forget it! Forget it all!

What are you doing?

What are you doing? No, I...

Let's face it.

My sister is perfect.

Everyone here knows it.

If you're a chick, you've spent

your life fighting the urge

to kill her in her sleep.

If you're a guy, you've spent your life

trying to sleep with her.

- Admit it, Jake. Admit it.

- You admit it.

Don't worry, Weesie,

he never got anywhere.

Mom...

...Dad.

I know it's been hard

to embrace the new in-laws.

But don't worry.

We only have to spend Christmas

and Thanksgiving with them...

...every year for the rest of our lives.

Wait... do lrish people

celebrate Christmas or Hanukkah?

''The lovely Lila sat on a wall

When she saw Tom McDevon,

her heart had a fall

He rode in on his horse

and picked up the pieces

Until that day,

she had felt like feces.''

As everybody knows, Tom is

unmatched in the swimming pool.

As everyone also knows,

Tom is unmatched on the tennis court.

But I don't think enough is said

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Galt Niederhoffer

Galt Niederhoffer (born October 2, 1976) is an American producer, director and novelist. She has produced over thirty feature films. Her movie credits as a producer include: Infinitely Polar Bear (2013); Robot & Frank (2012), winner of the Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize at Sundance; Grace Is Gone (2006), winner of the Audience Award and Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at Sundance; Lonesome Jim (2005), nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance; Prozac Nation (2001)(of which she was also the screenwriter), an adaptation of the best-selling novel; and Hurricane Streets (1997), winner of the awards for Audience, Best Director and Best Cinematography at Sundance (the first feature film to win three awards at the festival).She has written three published novels. Her first novel, A Taxonomy of Barnacles (2005), about the love and rivalry of six sisters, was loosely based on her family, including her father, the idiosyncratic and highly acclaimed squash champion, economist and hedge fund manager Victor Niederhoffer, and her five sisters. The book's surprise ending was mirrored in real life when her father had a seventh child, a son, a year after the book came out. A movie adaptation of the novel is said to be in production. Her second novel, The Romantics (2008), about college classmates who get together for a wedding six years after graduation, where they compare their meager progress towards life's important goals and rekindle previous rivalries. Niederhoffer adapted The Romantics into a movie in 2010, which she also directed. The movies starred Katie Holmes, Anna Paquin, Malin Akerman, Josh Duhamel, Adam Brody, Jeremy Strong and Elijah Wood. Her third novel, Love and Happiness, about a married couple whose seemingly idyllic lives in Brownstone Brooklyn has become mundane, was released in September 2013. Niederhoffer attended The Chapin School, Milton Academy and Harvard University. more…

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