Fresh
This ostensibly lighthearted film about Spencer Tracy's Kafkaesque attempts to bring off his daughter's wedding is one of the bleakest films of a bleak decade.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Father of the Bride
You're invited... to a hilarious wedding!
1950 · 1h 32m · Not Rated
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Directed by
Vincente Minnelli
Overview
Proud father Stanley Banks remembers the day his daughter, Kay, got married. Starting when she announces her engagement through to the wedding itself, we learn of all the surprises and disasters along the way.
Director and cast
- Vincente Minnelli Director
- Spencer Tracy as Stanley T. Banks
- Joan Bennett as Ellie Banks
- Elizabeth Taylor as Katherine 'Kay' Banks
- Don Taylor as Buckley Dunstan
- Billie Burke as Doris Dunstan
- Leo G. Carroll as Mr. Massoula
- Moroni Olsen as Herbert Dunstan
- Melville Cooper as Mr. Tringle
- Taylor Holmes as Warner
- Paul Harvey Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
90%
Tomatometer
Rotten
On the critical side: Minnelli could have timed many of the scenes so that laughs would not have stepped on dialog tag lines.
Variety Staff, Variety
Fresh
Thoroughly enchanting comedy about the trials and tribulations a middle-aged family man faces when the daughter he dotes on decides to get married.
Geoff Andrew, Time Out
Fresh
A honey of a picture of American family life.
Bosley Crowther, New York Times
Fresh
Under Vincente Minelli's crisp direction, the fun rarely lets up.
TIME Magazine
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