A Wedding

Robert Altman's frenetic satire on American marriage rituals and hypocrisy during the upper-crust marriage between Dino Corelli (Desi Arnaz Jr.) and Muffin Brenner (Amy Stryker).

A senile bishop forgets the lines to the wedding ceremony and Nettie Sloan (the groom's grandmother) drops dead in an upstairs bedroom. So begins a never-ending parade of never-discussed family secrets, including drug addiction, Mafia connections, heavy drinking, illegitimate pregnancy, sexual degenerates, hard-nosed radicals, raw-boned emotional wrecks - while the wedding reception heads for its inevitable nuclear explosion.

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