Polish Wedding

January. 16,1998      PG-13
Rating:
5.5
Trailer Synopsis Cast

The film centers on a big Polish family. Jadzia is the mother and the ruler of the Pzoniak family (she has five children). Though she's happily married to Bolek, she is also having a long-time affair with Roman. Her young daughter Hala is having an affair with neighbour cop Russell and becomes pregnant by him. Russell is pressed hard to marry Hala.

Claire Danes as  Hala
Lena Olin as  Jadzia
Gabriel Byrne as  Bolek
Mili Avital as  Sofie
Daniel Lapaine as  Ziggy
Steven Petrarca as  Witek
Peter Carey as  Piotrus
Ryan Spahn as  Kid
Adam Trese as  Russell Schuster
Jeffrey Nordling as  Father Don

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Reviews

VividSimon
1998/01/16

Simply Perfect

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GazerRise
1998/01/17

Fantastic!

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Console
1998/01/18

best movie i've ever seen.

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SanEat
1998/01/19

A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

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haashaus
1998/01/20

Most of the other respondents to this movie were Polish (or descended). I am neither. In fact, I'll admit to being of pure German stock. They (Polish people) were understandably offended by this movie. But this movie (a hate movie) goes beyond being offensive to a nationality of people. It attempts to tag morality, Polish people, and Christianity (of the Catholic kind) all as hypocrites. This movie is a propaganda film which people had to pay money to see!!!??? Leni Reifenstahl made better movies fur Der Furher than this one is!!!If you remember hearing Polish jokes as a kid, they weren't funny, and were very insipid, just think of this movie as an attempt to take those jokes and turn them into a movie. Would you pay money for this? I sat through (as in: "endured") this movie to gather information about it when it was ended (thankfully). If you're just looking for entertainment, this movie fails miserably. The only other value this movie could have is its value as a hate film.

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vchimpanzee
1998/01/21

If 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding' was 'Everybody Loves Raymond', then this was 'Married ... with Children'. In the Greek family, the bride was plain and overweight but made herself over, hoping to get a man before her biological clock ran out. In this movie, the bride looked hot even with a minimum of makeup ... though her mom looked like Kathie Lee Gifford and wore enough makeup for a much older profession than cleaning offices. The Greek family ran a restaurant. In this movie, the father worked nights in a bakery but it is never made clear whether he owned it. The Greek wedding was a major production involving hundreds of guests. The Polish wedding ... wasn't. I don't want to give away too much, but weapons were involved. I think they were baseball bats, but I'm not sure. The scene where those were used--that was memorable. I liked the performances of the actors playing the groom's parents, brief though they were.Claire Danes did a wonderful job as the only daughter out of five children. She showed a real talent for sultry behavior, and her evil laugh early in the movie was something worth seeing. Lena Olin delivered an outstanding performance, effectively showing a wide variety of emotions, and her accent was beautiful. Gabriel Byrne had his moments as the father.I had a hard time enjoying the movie, though, except when it was funny. Some of the humor was naughty, but that was okay. It seemed well done. The main problem with the movie was that there were good parts but nothing overall that made them fit together as a whole.It was fun at times, anyway.

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Erick-12
1998/01/22

For a first film, this is not bad. Meanders a bit, and the matriarch is not believably presented compared to the depressed father who works night-shift as the neighborhood baker. Contains several charmed moments along the way. The core interest of this story is in its insistence on a kind of tough motherhood, an affirmation of life in the physical sense of pregnancy and everything that necessitates. A re-visioning of the religious Virgin is one of the more memorable scenes.As the title promises, this is a marriage plot, one of the most common of traditional plots. Here too the film presents a revision in terms of the woman's point of view. The old mystery for males: "What do women want?" was the infamous question asked by Freud and many others. One honest answer is given in Polish Wedding.

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Hairy_Lime
1998/01/23

This is one of those movies where actors I enjoy watching get together, try their hardest, and produce absolute dreck. Only Gabriel Byrne ever seems to have a moment of reality here.The main problem is the screenplay, which commits the increasingly frequent sin of mistaking giving characters quirks for creating actual characters. Lena Olin's character in particular sticks out as a poor creation of a screenwriters absence of imagination.

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