(05) Rachel Getting Married

Directed by Jonathan Demme
Starring Anne Hathaway, Rosemarie DeWitt, Bill Irwin and Debra Winger
114 mins.
Rated R

While Anne Hathaway's performance in Jonathan Demme's (The Silence of the Lambs) latest film as Kim, difficult, forward, recently out of rehab and attending her sister's wedding, it's not the highlight performance. Much like Tom Cruise (who is better) was snubbed in favor of Dustin Hoffmann's more showy performance in Rain Man, I can't help but feel the same thing is going to happen here between Hathaway and DeWitt. While Hathaway gets all the heavy scenes, it's DeWitt who manages to make what could come across as a basic "bitchy sister pissed at druggie younger sister for showing up to wedding" actually manages to make her character one of the most sympathetic in the film.