Review: Rachel Getting Married

Review: Rachel Getting Married

Rating: ***1/2

Nonna's Rating: $$$

Rotten Tomatoes: 87%

Anne Hathaway has spent most of her acting career in family films like Ella Enchanted and The Princess Diaries. She was always charming, but the roles weren't -- well-- challenging. The Devil Wears Prada stretched her a bit; she was, after all, acting with Meryl Streep. But, in this film, she moves into entirely different territory, delivering a performance which consistently portrays a tense young woman barely able to control her emotions. Unpredictably, she lashes out like a viper from time to time, disturbing everyone in her dysfunctional family. She is a woman in the middle of her recovery from addiction, and she has all the prickliness we can expect in such a state. It is impossible to tell whether she will move forward in recovery or slip back into her addiction. It's a remarkable performance. If you've ever been close to someone in the middle of his or her recovery journey, you will recognize the symptoms.

Nonna's Ratings:

$$$$ = Worth paying the Friday evening price
$$$= Worth paying the Matinee price
$$= Worth a rental
$ = Wait for cable
# = Skip it