Taglines: The wedding picture doesn’t always tell the whole story.
Betsy’s Wedding movie storyline. Offbeat fashion student Betsy Hopper and her strait-laced investment-banker fiancé, Jake Lovell, just want an intimate little wedding reception, but Betsy’s father, Eddie, a Long Island construction contractor, feels so threatened by Jake’s rich WASP parents that he blows the ceremony up into a bank-breaking showpiece, sending his wife, Lola, into a financial panic.
Pressure from Betsy’s extended family to include their joint Jewish and Italian-Catholic heritage in the ceremony doesn’t do much to assuage the title character’s worries, nor does the lovelorn bitterness of her older sister, Connie, who’s single, her parents assume, because she has the audacity to pursue the unfeminine profession of police officer. With all of his funds tied up into the money pit of a house he’s building, Betsy’s dad has to turn to his crooked brother-in-law, Oscar, for financial assistance, and soon a soft-spoken but menacing young mobster named Stevie Dee is supervising Eddie’s construction project.
Betsy’s Wedding is a 1990 American romantic-comedy film written, directed by and starring Alan Alda. It co-stars Alan Alda, Molly Ringwald, Joey Bishop, Madeline Kahn, Anthony LaPaglia, Catherine O’Hara, Joe Pesci, Ally Sheedy, Julie Bovasso and Camille Saviola.
Betsy’s Wedding (1990)
Directed by: Alan Alda
Starring: Alan Alda, Molly Ringwald, Joey Bishop, Madeline Kahn, Anthony LaPaglia, Catherine O’Hara, Joe Pesci, Ally Sheedy, Julie Bovasso, Camille Saviola
Screenplay by: Alan Alda
Production Design by: John Jay Moore
Cinematography by: Kelvin Pike
Film Editing by: Michael E. Polakow
Costume Design by: Mary Malin
Set Decoration by: Barbara Kahn
Music by: Bruce Broughton
Distributed by: Buena Vista Pictures
Release Date: June 22, 1990
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