“Rachel Getting Married,” 22 July 2009 (2008), DVD. We both really enjoyed this Jonathon Demme story about a junkie on leave from rehab who’s attending her sister’s wedding. The beautiful Anne Hathaway (Kim) stars in this story of family love and dysfunction, the difficulties of coming to terms and accepting responsibility faced by those in rehab and those in ‘the real world’. Wonderful and weird music with an odd appearance by Robyn Hitchcock. And why the saris and Indian theme?. That I didn’t get. Interesting multi-racialism, very much the work of screenwriter Jennie Lumet, Sidney Lumet’s daughter (her grandmother is Eartha Kitt) who comes from that background and, I suspect, has seen her share of rehab stories/experiences Brilliant work by Debra Winger as the cold and distant mom who still can’t accept her own role in the family tragedy and is cut off from her children. Fine work from Bill Irwin as the dad who tries but doesn’t know that everyone sees him trying too hard and not getting there (I related with him, sad to say). A lovely job by Rosemarie DeWitt as the smart, centered Rachel of the title who is smug, angry, jealous, arrogant, and loving as her train-wreck of a sister shows up and to her eyes, tries to upstage her wedding. Demme’s one of the few male directors who really does well with actresses. The men are mostly secondary characters. Bronwen really liked the Kim character, while I related more to the more boring and ‘responsible’ Rachel. See this film,