{"id":111624,"date":"2012-12-14T04:52:48","date_gmt":"2012-12-14T11:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/?p=111624"},"modified":"2012-12-13T19:54:10","modified_gmt":"2012-12-14T02:54:10","slug":"cheerful-weather-for-the-wedding-movie-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/2012\/12\/14\/cheerful-weather-for-the-wedding-movie-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheerful Weather for the Wedding Movie Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Title: Cheerful Weather for the Wedding<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Director: Donald Rice<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Starring: Felicity Jones, Luke Treadaway, Elizabeth McGovern, Mackenzie Crook, Fenella Woolgar, Zo\u00eb Tapper, Julian Wadham, Sophie Stanton, Ellie Kendrick, Olly Alexander, James Norton<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A very mannered but deadly dull period piece drama of partially upended, stuffy social customs in which things like, &#8220;Dolly, dearest Dolly!&#8221; are earnestly exclaimed, &#8220;Cheerful Weather for the Wedding&#8221; is a ruinous vehicle for the incandescence of Felicity Jones. What could on the surface be something lively and spry, a la Oliver Wilde, is instead neither a spirited tale of romantic competition nor a hand-wringing story of fated love. It just lays there, at once familiar and inert.<\/p>\n<p>The story centers around Dolly Thatcham (Jones), an English bride-to-be who spends a good bit of her wedding weekend holed upstairs in her family&#8217;s country mansion, taking swigs of rum. This is the source of no small consternation to her tightly wound mother (Elizabeth McGovern), who knows nothing of Dolly&#8217;s dalliance the previous summer with the dashing Joseph Patten (Luke Treadaway), who&#8217;s shown up to&#8230; well, it&#8217;s not yet quite clear what. While Kitty (Ellie Kendrick), Dolly&#8217;s younger sister, wanders about complaining about the lack of suitable suitors in her life, Joseph tries to make inroads into stealing a bit of private time with Dolly, to suss out whether she still might have feelings for him.<\/p>\n<p>Director Donald Rice, working from a script co-written with Mary Henely Magill, adapts Julia Strachey&#8217;s 1932 novel of the same name with a slavish devotion to the literal that borders on suffocation. It certainly doesn&#8217;t help that Dolly&#8217;s betrothed, Owen (James Norton), is a complete nonentity, both as sketched and rendered; ergo, there&#8217;s no sense of proper balance or dramatic tension in Dolly&#8217;s affinity for these two men. But Rice and his technical crew also trade in the most obvious shorthand, crafting warm-hued flashbacks that stand in stark contrast to the chilly formalism of the movie&#8217;s setting proper.<\/p>\n<p>The lead performances are okay &#8212; Jones has a quietly expressive face, and Treadaway a handsomeness that shades and elevates the motivations of an otherwise hopelessly mopey character &#8212; but the movie&#8217;s entire backdrop, in both its setting and supporting cast of characters, is fruitlessly bland. Some family members chirp and backbite, others wander around in a haze. Viewers, meanwhile, might wish that the conversation turned to &#8220;Cheerful Weather,&#8221; if only so then there would be something interesting being talked about.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Technical: C<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Acting: C+<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Story: D<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Overall: D<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Written by: Brent Simon<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/cheerful-weather.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/cheerful-weather.jpg\" alt=\"Cheerful Weather for the Wedding Movie Review\" title=\"Cheerful Weather for the Wedding Movie Review\" width=\"600\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-111742\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title: Cheerful Weather for the Wedding Director: Donald Rice Starring: Felicity Jones, Luke Treadaway, Elizabeth McGovern, Mackenzie Crook, Fenella Woolgar, Zo\u00eb Tapper, Julian Wadham, Sophie 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