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Cheerful Weather for the Wedding, Movie

Cheerful Weather for the Wedding 2012

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The arrival of a former lover throws the feelings of a bride-to-be into turmoil on her wedding day in this English comedy drama set in the '30s. More

While Dolly (Cemetary Junction's Felicity Jones) fortifies herself with rum, her mother Hetty (Downton Abbey's Elizabeth McGovern) frets about the presence of Joseph (Luke Treadaway), who seems hell-bent on declaring his love for Dolly. Before long, the guests start to wonder if the wedding will take place at all. Hide

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    • Honey Ryder

      Looks lovely!!:)

    • joe

      Great English movie, a must see

    • emma

      beautifully shot and well acted with plenty of wonderful English humour

    • Neil

      This looks great! What an amazing cast, great alternative to the normal dribble coming out of America!

    • Mary

      Looks fabulous, can't wait to see this movie

    • glenda

      this is a movie for all the ones who do not wish to continually see blood & violence on at the cinema. I am sooooo looking forward to it.

    • Christine

      looks like another beautifully filmed exquisitely costumed English movie. I'll be there with friends & mum

    • Brit

      Shame people can't tell the difference between English and British. Must be the colonial effect of these wonderful films

    • Lea

      A boring pointless piece of tosh by the looks of it - nice scenery if thats what rocks your boat

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Steve Newall Flicks Writer

Downton Abbey’s Elizabeth McGovern straps on the matriarch’s hat here for a role that’s not a million miles away from her TV series, though Cheerful Weather for the Wedding itself is a slightly different beast - if by a matter of degrees rather than drastic amounts. The era is a little later, the country manor she presides over a little smaller, and its atmosphere less stuffily elitist with the film relying less on stiff upper lip drama than a mix of pining, familial farce and sweet summer love story. More

An unlikely bride given her age, McGovern’s Mrs Thatcham isn’t the central character here - somewhat lucky given the American actress tries on her best posh English accent in a performance defined by her precise over-enunciation. Instead Cheerful Weather enlists Cemetery Junction’s Felicity Jones for its nervous pre-nuptials, a role which largely sees her confined to her room swigging rum while we’re entertained by family squabbling and the awkward presence of her former flame (Luke Treadaway).

Were the film to be solely about the wedding countdown and a little less wry in its humour Cheerful Weather could have ended up in Death at a Funeral territory, but by intercutting its winter pre-marital tension with summery flashbacks of youthful flirtations it offers more than that weak farce. Jones’ crush-worthiness for one thing - essential to Treadaway’s motivation in attending her wedding (otherwise, why would you?) – and allowing the film to offer a little sweet and sour within its romantic drama formula. Hide

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Utterly predictable

Weds_Loafers Flicks Superstar (?)

Seven of us (5 male, 2 female) went to see "Cheerful Weather For the Wedding Today" and came out with quite differing views. Our first thought was that the 5 guys would mark it quite low and the women quite high but this wasn't the case. I was the lowest with 2.5, bordering on 2 ( my lowest score for the year) and Cushla gave it 4 and Les (usually the hardest man to please) 4.5.

This is one of those potentially charming English films set in a delightful country house on the day of a wedding in the early 20th century. One scene in the first 5 minutes enabled me to imagine the likely plot outcome with 95% accuracy (there's not much plot!). And some very contrived film-making is involved. The events are all filmed on a very grey day interspersed with some idyllic golden flashbacks which occur on days when the sun is always shining, with one crucial exception, and complete with "Darling Buds of May" music. There are a few good dialogue moments, but very few indeed.

The story is utterly predictable and might have been better suited to TV One on a Sunday night. If it had been, I would have changed channels! Our average score - 3 stars, and this is very generous.

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Press Reviews

Film Forward

The film snaps along with dialogue loaded with barbed bon mots, though the pace slackens a bit with its extended countryside interludes. Full review.

Hollywood Reporter

Finely crafted English period piece works best for those who like their love stories romantically doomed. Full review.

Variety (USA)

Stateside fans of tastefully formulaic period fare will join the Brit "Wedding" party, but hardly in droves. Full review.