Polish Wedding

1998 "Sometimes the further you stray, the closer you are to home."
5.5| 1h45m| PG-13| en
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The film centers on a big Polish family. Jadzia is the mother and the ruler of the Pzoniak family (she has five children). Though she's happily married to Bolek, she is also having a long-time affair with Roman. Her young daughter Hala is having an affair with neighbour cop Russell and becomes pregnant by him. Russell is pressed hard to marry Hala.

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Fox Searchlight Pictures

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Diagonaldi Very well executed
Stevecorp Don't listen to the negative reviews
Solidrariol Am I Missing Something?
Dana An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.
ProffUnicorn This film is not funny, it is not entertaining. It is not at all enjoyable. The movie is just dull and boring, The movie is senseless, and an insult to anyone of Polish Heritage as well as everyone who expected to see a decent movie. It makes no sense at all and rambles on and on insulting Poles and then it finally ends. When it ended I thought to myself, that was it? At last its over, but where was the story? None of the characters made any sense at all. There was no intelligence in this film what so ever. One really wonders why it was made. I was totally disappointed by this film, as there many really excellent Polish films that have been made. This is not one of them.
Gordon-11 This film is about a Polish family in America who have to deal with many problems, including the wife's affair and the daughter's disgrace."Polish Wedding" is said to be a comedy, but in fact it is really boring. Throughout the film, women are portrayed to be in power. Lines like "How can women come from men? In fact it's the other way around", or scenes like Hala saying to Schuster "Kiss my feet" or "You can't kiss me unless I say so" are just plain turn off. I am not against feminism, but this film looks more like a feminist propaganda. The scene where Hala and Schuster talk about boldness is meant to be romantic, but turns out to be ridiculous and unwatchable.It lacks suspense to be a thriller. It lacks pace to be a drama. It lacks jokes to be a comedy. It lacks romance to be a date film. Avoid this very bad film!
joeg-14 It is quite obvious that whoever is responsible for this film knows absolutely nothing about the culture of Poland or the Catholic Church. Some of the scenes bordered on sacrilege. A priest man-handing a young woman during a May procession honoring the Virgin Mary....I mean get real !!! This movie is a complete fantasy and NOT a good one. Don't waste your time or money on this turkey.I have to say also that the process to even comment on this disaster of a film is so ridiculous that it is set up to actually NOT provide comment. Since the film in my opinion is anti-Catholic bigotry at it's worst I can understand why they would want to do that.
Turambar-3 If you have a sense of humor and are over the age of 30 you'll probably understand and love this film as much as I did. It'd be hard to beat the quality of the cast unless one was filming a movie about American football or Kabuki theatre, and the script lives up to their quality.Gabriel Byrne is excellent as a hard-working Polish father who finds refuge from his family in his bakery. Lena Olin is perfect as the beautiful mother with five children who makes one last desperate and menopausal escape attempt from what she sees as her Catholic prison sentence. Claire Danes is their funny, chaotic, excessively hormonal and headstrong daughter who sets out to lose her virginity just as she is selected to lead the community's Catholic procession as the Virgin Mary. The rest of the cast has earned accolades in other works and they're equally credible here. All of the characters somehow succeed in winning the viewer's affection, and all of them are human. There's a pleasant craft about this film along with a pleasing and sardonic sense of humor. I've seen it three times now over several years, and it always draws me in.