Product: Father of the Bride [VHS] (1950)
Rating: 4.0
Charming as ever!
"Father of the bride", starring Spencer Tracy and Elizabeth Taylor and Joan Bennett is just magical. It's basically the story of a young girl who's anouncing to her parents ( Tracy and Bennett ), that she is getting married at age 20, to a young man they hardly know. the news comes has a shock to her father, who's afraid of losing her. And the whole process of planning the marriage comes along. Bennett wants a big wedding for her daughter,to replace the one she never had. But Tracy doesn't want to ruin himself, and tries to keep the wedding as cheap as possible though it doesn't quite come to this. The movies is fun, charming and just as magical as a Tracy film can be. Tracy never acted really but impersonnated his values and morals through passionnate characters that believed in what they were saying and stucked to it. And in this particular performance, he's more vulnerable, than we've seen before, showing the real depth of what a father goes through when is daughter gets married. Because as he says in the film, A son doesn't mean the same to a father than a daughter. And that's what the movie is all about. The relationship between a father and a duaghter, in between the constant love of a mother.