Richards Wedding
6.4 /10 1 Votes
Director Onur Tukel Distributed by Devolver Digital Duration Country United States | 6.2/10 Editor Onur Tukel Genres Comedy, Drama film Writer Onur Tukel Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date June 1, 2012 (2012-06-01) Cast Josephine Decker (Phoebe), Dustin Guy Defa (Taco), Randy Gambill (Louis), Jamie Dobie (Deedee), Thomas J Buchmueller (Simon)Similar movies Dustin Guy Defa appears in Richards Wedding and Summer of Blood |
Storm clouds gather as talkative friends (Onur Turkel, Jennifer Prediger, Darrill Rosen) reunite for a wedding in Central Park.
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Richards Wedding is a 2012 comedy/drama film written, edited, and directed by Onur Tukel. Among the films ensemble cast are actors Josephine Decker, Randy Gambill, Lawrence Michael Levine, Jennifer Prediger, and Tukel himself.
RICHARD'S WEDDING is an ensemble comedy that explores how the most enduring friendships require a mixture of envy, love and ridiculous egomania disguised as self-contempt. Alex and Tuna are on their way to Richard and Phoebe's wedding, to be reunited with a group of old friends. As they make their trek from Brooklyn to Central Park, they're joined by an ever-increasing number of friends with their own set of misgivings, self-righteousness, and violently annoying iPhone Apps.
Cast
Media
The film was released on VOD through Devolver Digital.
Similar Movies
Dustin Guy Defa appears in Richards Wedding and Summer of Blood. Moving Malcolm (2003). Sally Marshall Is Not an Alien (1999). A Novel Romance (2011). Septien (2011).
Critical response
The film received a generally mixed response from critics. David DeWitt of The New York Times called the film "a slice of the John Cassavetes, John Sayles and Richard Linklater life" and added "Richard’s Wedding is modest in umpteen ways, and if your cinematic diet craves the substantial, be forewarned. But the film’s DIY ethos has a heart, which makes the script’s small talk about humanity not so small after all." Ronnie Scheib of Variety added, "Turkel constantly undermines the feel-good with the ridiculous and vice versa, vacillating between infantile insults and professions of affection, a duality that ultimately wears thin. Still, if the message sometimes veers uncomfortably toward sententiousness, it reaches its comic apogee in Alex’s born-again ex-junkie cousin Louis (Randy Gambill), now an online-ordained minister. Proffering thought-provoking questions about the nature of friendship and demanding crack with equal sweetness, his helpfulness and obliviousness run neck and neck."
Conversely, Michael Atkinson of the The Village Voice viewed the film very unfavorably, calling it "A handheld New York indie that dallies in the queasy DMZ between hipster-narcissism and a self-satisfied critique of hipster-narcissism". Kenji Fujishima of Slant Magazine gave the film a more mixed 2 out of 4 stars, saying "Richards Wedding may be admirably nervy in some ways, but in the directors preference for above-it-all contempt over tough-minded empathy, the film ends up seeming little more than an 89-minute hatefest, with no special insights into human nature to make the endeavor worthwhile."
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