Product: Father of the Bride [VHS] (1950)
Rating: 3.0
At One Point for Liz Taylor, Art Imitated Life!
That's because her first real-life wedding (to Nicky Hilton) was tied in to the publicity for "Father of the Bride", in which she plays the engaged daughter of Spencer Tracy and Joan Bennett. It's really Tracy's movie, though, as it's told from the father's point of view via constant narrative. He's an upper middle class man being ridden roughshod over by bride Liz and mother of the bride Joan, picking up the tab for everything and just being driven to the point of blowing his top. By the end, his never being able to enjoy an iota of this spectacle he's financing is a little overdone I think, but it makes for a good laugh here and there. The best single shot is when he comes to escort Liz to the church and sees Liz in her beautiful dress--what a lovely creature she was way back when. Everybody who's ever even gone to a wedding should see "Father of the Bride" so they can compare notes.