PREVIEW: The People We Hate at the Wedding (15)

WHO’S IN IT?

Kristen Bell (Forgetting Sarah Marshall), Ben Platt (Dear Evan Hansen), Allison Janney (I, Tonya), Cynthia Addai-Robinson (The Accountant), Karan Soni (Deadpool), Dustin Milligan (A Simple Favour), Tony Goldwyn (Ghost), Isaach de Bankolé (Calvary), Jorma Taccone (Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping), Julian Ovenden (Surviving Christmas with the Relatives)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Claire Scanlon (Set It Up), director; Lizzie Molyneux (film debut) and Wendy Molyneux (film debut), writers; Ashley Fox (Promising Young Woman) and Margot Hand (Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar), producers; Tom Howe (Professor Marston and the Wonder Women), composer; Oliver Stapleton (My Beautiful Laundrette), cinematographer; Wendy Greene Bricmont (Mean Girls), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

Alice (Bell) and Paul (Platt) are two dysfunctional American siblings who receive invitations to the wedding of their better-off half-sister Eloise (Addai-Robinson) in England. They reluctantly travel across the Atlantic with their ever-optimistic mother Donna (Janney) to the wedding party, where they slowly learn to reconnect with each other as family members, as well as adults…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Wedding comedies don’t get more sour than this hilariously cynical adaptation of Grant Ginder’s bestselling novel, featuring some outrageous turns by Kristen Bell and Oscar-winner Allison Janney.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 18TH NOVEMBER 2022

WHERE CAN I FIND IT?

STREAMING EXCLUSIVELY ON AMAZON PRIME VIDEO

 

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