Father of the Bride (1950)

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Academy Award winners Spencer Tracy and Elizabeth Taylor star in this classic comedy about a devoted father's survival from the time his daughter announces her engagement until the last guest departs from the wedding and reception as The Father of the Bride.

Attorney Stanley T. Banks (Tracy - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, Adam's Rib) finds himself unprepared when his daughter, Kay (Taylor - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof), announces her engagement to Buckley Dunstan (Don Taylor - Stalag 17), while wife Ellie (Joan Bennett) and son Tommy (Russ Tamblyn - West Side Story, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers) burst with enthusiasm for Kay's wedding. But for Stanley, gaining a "son" offers no consolation for the loss of his baby girl, who's all grown up now with a life of her own.

Maybe everything will work out that is, if Stanley can accept Buckley and survive the wedding. And who's paying for that? Well, naturally, the Father Of The Bride.

Movie info:

Release:

1950

Running Time:

89 min

Certificate:

Suitable for all

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Genre:

Comedy

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Director:

Vincente Minnelli

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Elena Vinterberg
Amusing, not really more, not really less
06 December 2008
Much better than that crappy remake with Steve Martin. This movie stars Spencer Tracy as a lawyer who discovers his daughter, played by Elizabeth Taylor, is about to be married. He doesn't like the idea after he finds out it's going to be a big wedding and he has to pay for it himself, with no help from the groom's parents. Their's one scene where he says to his son, he can't wait for him to get married so he won't have to pay for any of it. It shows him going through all the motions of setting the wedding up and all the problems that go along with it. Spencer Tracy is great in this movie and Joan Bennett doesn't have much to do as his wife.
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