Screenwriters love structure: it gives them something to focus on as they plow ahead in their storytelling or to retreat to if they get off track. Familiar structures include the road movie (looking ...
There’s a bitter irony to the title of Rachel Getting Married, the beautifully painful family drama from director Jonathan Demme and screenwriter Jenny Lumet. Yes, the weekend that the film captures ...
In Jonathan Demme’s Rachel Getting Married, Anne Hathaway plays Kym, a self-involved recovering junkie who comes home for her sister Rachel’s wedding. Kym blames her insecurities on her family, even ...