Claysaba Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Forumrxes Yo, there's no way for me to review this film without saying, take your *insert ethnicity + "ass" here* to see this film,like now. You have to see it in order to know what you're really messing with.

Ariella Broughton It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

Marva It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

juneebuggy From 2002, this was an okay movie. It's a cute, slice of life surrounding an Italian-American family as they prepare for the wedding of one of the three daughters.It has a huge cast most, of which I recognized from assorted movie and TV projects. Oddly the mother and father of the bride here are Talia Shire & Burt Young aka Adrian and Paulie of 'Rocky' fame (where they play brother and sister). This was fun casting but honestly a little weird and just felt ...well wrong.Alyssa Milano was very good here as the youngest daughter who arrives on a motorcycle with her girlfriend. I also enjoyed Sean Patrick Flanery and Frances Bay as grandma. 08.11

yespat This film is shockingly bad. A complete waste of life. Don't make the same mistake I did by watching it. The actors were bad, the music was bad, the story was worse than anything else. It was put together like a high school project. Shocking how bad this film is. One of the worst I've ever seen. I cannot understand how it got any favorable reviews.It felt like a really bad B movie. The dialogue was completely contrived and predictable. The syrupy sweet family scenes are so unrealistically wonderful that their unreality is grating. And I wonder how many families siblings are all stunningly beautiful and highly economically successful---aka Rich Rich Rich? It's the kind of movie that insults one's intelligence over and over. It is completely brain dead and useless. Save yourself from this mess.

TxMike My wife brought this DVD home, unable to find anything better. It is a movie mainly for the women, from their point of view, written and directed by Vanessa Parise who also plays one of the sisters, Chrissy. The story is based loosely on her own Rhode Island Italian family. I found it an interesting viewing, although there is nothing really new here.Amanda Detmer plays 'Danni' Sposato, and as the movie opens we see her dressed in a wedding gown, on a balcony near the sea, looking for the groom. We suspect she may have been "left at the altar", but don't find out right away as the entire movie is one 85-minute flashback to the previous couple of days, as Danni's sisters come home to help her celebrate. Sure, it was a movie gimmick, but it worked OK.SPOILERS. At the end we see that Danni's whole family, along with the groom and the priest, have gathered on the sand to be a part of her wedding. This came after her rehearsal party from hell the night before where everyone was so concerned about their own situations that they were not celebrating Danni's big moment and she told them all to leave. Sean Patrick Flanery, who had been so good as "Powder", and also as Young Indy in the early 1990s, played Tom Terranova, old boyfriend of one of the sisters, Niki, the smart one who went off to Hollywood and now was in a Baywatch type of TV series. (Writer Parise was a smart one, set to go to Harvard Medical School, when she turned to acting.) Talia Shire, of Rocky fame, plays the mother. I like Amanda Detmer, she is cute as a button and a good actress to boot!

vance1975 I had the unfortunate experience of watching a screener version of this movie. Not that long into an already bad film, I was so distracted by the performance of one the sisters, that it made everything else fade into insignificance. The "actress" who plays one of the leads -- a have-it-all high powered exec, who comes home for her sister's wedding -- does such a terrible job that it literally makes you wonder how this woman was cast in the first place. However, If you keep watching there is an answer (which is the only satisfying conclusion to watching this film until the end): in the credits, you realize that the actress is also the writer/director, and all of a sudden Vanessa Parise's unwatchable performance makes sense (it doesn't bode well for the people who worked on this film that no one told her the nasal valley girl thing just doesn't work for this role).Too bad -- the rest of cast is decent; Alyssa Milano, Talia Shire, Burt Young, Jonathan Schaechter, Brooke Langton -- though you can see that they don't know what to do with the clichéd script (let's not get started on the script). And what's with the soundtrack? Like Parise's acting, it's just amateur and self conscious. I would almost recommend this film just as a lesson in what-not-to-do-in-your-first-film Guide.