Margot at the Wedding (2007)
Margot is a successful but self-absorbed writer; it is suggested that she has borderline personality disorder. She brings her 11-year-old son Claude to spend a weekend visiting her free-spirited sister Pauline on the eve of Pauline’s wedding to Malcolm at their home on Long Island. Margot disapproves of Pauline’s choice of fiancé: Malcolm is an unsuccessful musician whom Margot considers “completely unattractive”. While in town, Margot will also be interviewed in a local bookstore by Dick Koosman, a successful author with whom she is collaborating on a screenplay. Dick’s teenage daughter Maisy also visits the house.
Margot and Pauline have an uneasy relationship. Margot disapproves of Pauline’s life-choices – besides marrying Malcolm, Pauline is pregnant, a fact that she has not shared with Malcolm or her pre-teen daughter Ingrid. Pauline, meanwhile, resents Margot for writing and publishing thinly-disguised stories about her life. She is also incensed when Margot shares secrets told to her in confidence – including her pregnancy. Rather than confront each other, however, Pauline and Margot take out their frustrations on Malcolm and Claude, respectively. Tensions come to a head twice. Margot’s interview goes disastrously wrong when Dick’s questions become personal. While Pauline interrogates him about emails he received from one of her 20-year-old students, Malcolm admits he kissed Maisy. Returning to the house, Pauline finds Maisy inside.
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Nicole Kidman
Jennifer Jason Leigh
Jack Black
John Turturro
Ciarán HindsMargot is a successful but self-absorbed writer; it is suggested that she has borderline personality disorder. She brings her 11-year-old son Claude to spend a weekend visiting her free-spirited sister Pauline on the eve of Pauline’s wedding to Malcolm at their home on Long Island. Margot disapproves of Pauline’s choice of fiancé: Malcolm is an unsuccessful musician whom Margot considers “completely unattractive”. While in town, Margot will also be interviewed in a local bookstore by Dick Koosman, a successful author with whom she is collaborating on a screenplay. Dick’s teenage daughter Maisy also visits the house.
Margot and Pauline have an uneasy relationship. Margot disapproves of Pauline’s life-choices – besides marrying Malcolm, Pauline is pregnant, a fact that she has not shared with Malcolm or her pre-teen daughter Ingrid. Pauline, meanwhile, resents Margot for writing and publishing thinly-disguised stories about her life. She is also incensed when Margot shares secrets told to her in confidence – including her pregnancy. Rather than confront each other, however, Pauline and Margot take out their frustrations on Malcolm and Claude, respectively. Tensions come to a head twice. Margot’s interview goes disastrously wrong when Dick’s questions become personal. While Pauline interrogates him about emails he received from one of her 20-year-old students, Malcolm admits he kissed Maisy. Returning to the house, Pauline finds Maisy inside.
