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Quotes Jadzia Pzoniak : Marrying my husband was no mistake. User reviews 71 Review. Top review. Sadly I was quite disappointed in most aspects of this film.

Polish Wedding was a film that was not quite popular, but I wanted to see it to make my own assumptions. The story is supposed to be about a blue -collar Polish family in Detroit whose members are all struggling with their love and hatred for each other. The mother played by Lena Olin, is self obsessed - caring only for her control of her children and love affair. The father is a tired baker, who sees the holes in his family but is reluctant to face them.

Claire Danes plays their 'free spirit' of a daughter, who wanders alleyways at night with strange boys and ends up pregnant. The film technique and art direction is a contrasting mix of urban ugliness and natural beauty. There are some notably beautiful scenes for which I must give some credit. Aside from this one point of merit, the rest of the film falls short of what I expected.

First of all, the characters are really unrealistic. Being part Polish, I found the accents to be contrived and the whole feel of the family to be unfamiliar.

The characters were interesting at first, but due to lack of development, become increasingly boring as time goes on. I tried, with great effort, to see where the title becomes relevant in this film, but there is no hint of a wedding in this film - Dane's character just waltzes to the boys house in a wedding gown - actually convinced she will get married????

I think this film might have been a real jewel if the story had moved a little more quickly and if the characters had not been so flat and un-dynamic. Anyone with a hint of Polish in their blood might even find this film more offensive that self-relevant. It casts a bad picture onto a people with a far more interesting family tradition than is seen in this artificial construction. But that is not enough even for this drudge through minor drama.

Watch for Danes to be more and more the broken or threatened innocent, like in Terminator 3. Good performances, but otherwise I didn't like it that much vchimpanzee 7 July In the Greek family, the bride was plain and overweight but made herself over, hoping to get a man before her biological clock ran out.

In this movie, the bride looked hot even with a minimum of makeup The Greek family ran a restaurant. In this movie, the father worked nights in a bakery but it is never made clear whether he owned it. The Greek wedding was a major production involving hundreds of guests.

The Polish wedding I don't want to give away too much, but weapons were involved. I think they were baseball bats, but I'm not sure. The scene where those were used--that was memorable. I liked the performances of the actors playing the groom's parents, brief though they were. Claire Danes did a wonderful job as the only daughter out of five children.

She showed a real talent for sultry behavior, and her evil laugh early in the movie was something worth seeing. Lena Olin delivered an outstanding performance, effectively showing a wide variety of emotions, and her accent was beautiful. Gabriel Byrne had his moments as the father. I had a hard time enjoying the movie, though, except when it was funny.

Some of the humor was naughty, but that was okay. It seemed well done. The main problem with the movie was that there were good parts but nothing overall that made them fit together as a whole. It was fun at times, anyway.

LeonardKniffel 29 April Nobody in the city of Hamtramck, Michigan, where it was filmed, seemed to like this comic-tragic movie-except me and my journalist friend Walter Wasacz, who covered the shoot for the local newspaper in People found it disrespectful and vulgar; we found it magical and honest. Maybe it was seeing the ordinary shops and streets and the magnificent St. Florian church on the big screen, or maybe it was the authentic performances of Lena Olin, Clare Danes, and Gabriel Byrne.

More than anything, for me, it is the complex musical score that captures a fleeting time and place so wonderfully. Each time I watch the film and the camera pans Hamtramck at night, I see the little house where my late mother lived, and think to myself, "Perhaps she was asleep, right there, that night, as the cameras rolled. DukeEman 29 October We enter the lives of another dysfunctional family. This time in Detroit, USA.

This is like no other suburban family or a Simpson one at that. This is a Polish family doing it the hard way. Mother thinks she's Queen and fit for an affair. Daddy works the nightshift, missing out on the sordid family activities. Daughter sends out a sexual scent that has the local cop sniffing at the front door; and the five brothers are servant to their Queen mother. Interesting characters done justice by the performers but the structure of the script and how it was told is the major draw back.

A big shame because this could have been entertaining if it wasn't so clumsy. Venal old-world comedy about getting knocked up before getting married. TheVid 25 April In spite of a cast headed by the voluptuous Lena Olin, this rather bleak comedy, concentrating on a lower-class Detroit family's sexual dilemmas, is pretty hard to take as anything more than a pathetic portrait of the maternal instinct as a sexual weapon.

The woman's touch is overtly present throughout, but the sexual politics of this flick are decidedly shady. I wouldn't put much faith in the final outcome, either. I am pretty much sure there is not much of POLISH culture or family lifestyle in this movie but one thing is damn sure and very true according to many websites and including some of my friends in poland. Its a good movie with some good performance, and very beautiful ladies in it. MarioB 9 September My girlfriend rent this movie at the video shop.

Because she says she loves Claire Danes. Claire who? She answers that I don't know anything about movies. So we strated to watch this. After 15 minutes, I had enough! Bad acting, no sparkles and a lot of stereotypes about Polish people like the music.

So I decided to go out, drink some coffee. At the restaurant, I met and old friend. So we talk and have fun for 30 minutes. I decided to go to the video shop near by and rent an another movie. Something from Europe. Anything for everywhere, except Hollywood.

After that, I came back to the house, where my girlfriend still watching Polish Wedding. She looks like a zombie. I ask her if she had a good time. She says she don't know. I watch another 10 minutes with her: stereotypes and bad acting.

So she decide to stop the machine and watch Le Jaguar. We laugh and have a good time. Two days later, she tells me that Polish Wedding was a real bad movie, and she strats singin' Bad to the bone, the song of bluesman George Thorogood. By the way, who is Claire Danes? Did you hear the one about the Polish filmmaker who Polish Wedding is an amatuerish effort. Whereas a film like 'In the Company of Men" succeeds through an innovative idea, strong acting performances and passionate filmmaking, Polish Wedding has none of this.

Claire Danes is wonderful on-screen, yet miscast in most every film she's played. Gabriel Byrne continues a succession of non-descript performances in non-descript films. Good idea dressing up Lena Olin as a janitor, cleaning toilets in full makeup.

There's a nice screaming baby sequence in the 1st ten minutes that will drive you away quicker than the poorly used musical score. Big time. What the hell? My sister and I looked at each other and thought ,"What the hell was that? The title sounded like a funny romantic comedy like "Moonstruck". What it actually was was, well, I can't put my finger on. It WAS pointless and plotless, I'll tell you that.

It looked like a look at a dysfunctional polish family at first, but then it evolved into a more and more bizarre story. I love weird movies, and I was blown away by the astonishingly bizarre film "Pi". But "Polish Wedding" was too weird for me.

It doesn't make any sense. The climax is one of the most bizarre ones I've seen in a film. The daughter, the "pregnant virgin", who is supposed to crown the Virgin Mary, takes the crown and wears it own her own head, shouting out "It's my crown! Is this weird enough? The mother stands up for her daughter, and as the daughter walks out, still wearing the crown, all the people she passes by, make the sign of the cross.

I didn't get that, or what it meant about the Virgin Mary if anything at all? I sat through Terrence Malick's 3 hour film "The Thin Red Line", but this hour and a half film seemed longer and more tedious. I would've spent my time doing something else, but my sister wanted me to watch it with her, so I stayed.

Still, I'd run like hell if I heard I had to watch it again. I do get bored with films sometimes, but I've never had the urge to walk out on one. I did here. Here's a good bit of advice; save your money and spend it watching something else. Scoopy 19 March What the????

Why are these characters supposed to be Polish, and why does the story take place in the present? Join for a free month. Make your movie list and get Blu-rays and DVDs conveniently delivered to you with free shipping both ways. Most of our subscribers receive their discs within two business days. Rent this movie. In this tale about a large Polish-American family living in Detroit, Claire Danes stars as Hala Pzoniak, a woman torn between her family's wishes and her heart's desire as she faces marriage to the neighborhood cop -- who is the father of her child.

The family's sassy and hardworking matriarch, Jadzia Lena Olin , strong-arms the reluctant groom, all while also having an affair behind the back of her suspecting husband Gabriel Byrne.

Director Theresa Connelly.