Cheerful Weather for the Wedding

2012

Comedy / Drama / Romance

5
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 27% · 30 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 27% · 250 ratings
IMDb Rating 5.6/10 10 2531 2.5K

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Plot summary

England, 1932. Today is Dolly Thatcham's wedding day, and her family is arriving at the manor house with all the cheerfulness, chaos and grievances that accompany such gatherings. Trouble soon appears in the shape of Joseph, Dolly's lover from the previous summer, who throws her feelings into turmoil. But Dolly's mother will not allow her carefully laid plans for her daughter's future to be threatened...

Director

Donald Rice Photo
Donald Rice

Top cast

Felicity Jones Photo
Felicity Jones as Dolly
James Norton Photo
James Norton as Owen
Elizabeth McGovern Photo
Elizabeth McGovern as Mrs Thatcham
Paola Dionisotti Photo
Paola Dionisotti as Mrs Whitstable
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852.36 MB
1280*544
English 2.0
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23.976 fps
1 hr 32 min
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1.71 GB
1920*816
English 5.1
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 32 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by TxMike

Slow-moving British period piece.

Reviewed by stills-6 5 / 10

Failed Downton Abbey Script

Because of the presence of Elizabeth McGovern and other similar traits of an early 20th century English estate family, this movie felt like a failed script for the TV program Downton Abbey. There was no particular compelling reason for this story to be greenlit in the manner it was produced except to take advantage of this similarity.It's nice to see the subtle anti-romance character traits of the two leads play out over the narrative, but it's more curiously interesting than it is intensely interesting. The sophomoric foreshadowing and symbolism feel extremely contrived and almost insulting. The scenes that should be amusing are not amusing. The cleverish storytelling isn't clever enough to make you want to care about anyone or what happens to them. And the big reveal isn't at all revelatory, but serves more as a device to unlock the grand mystery of why these people behave the way they do. Sad to say, the mystery isn't all that grand and the viewer is left with the bad taste of being inexpertly manipulated.
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