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Title: I was sorry to see it end
Review: Director Jonathan Demme nails the pain of the dysfunctional family, taking you into the depth of it. Hand-held camera weaves us through the events surrounding Rachel's wedding, a colorful, homey extravaganza. The couple itself is colorful, Rachel's white to Sydney's black. The wedding theme is East Indian, with saris, ragas, belly dancers, and a blue elephant cake. But central to the celebration is that Rachel's sister Kym gets out of rehab to attend the event. If you know rehab, you know the main thing is to avoid triggers that might rekindle your dependency on alcohol, drugs, sex, you name it. High on Kym's trigger list are home and family, and here she is in the thick of both. In lesser hands, this might have turned into soap opera, but the script, direction and acting are excellent. I was sorry when the film ended.
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