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It's a remake of a 1950 movie starring Spencer Tracy. Never ever getting witnessed it, I don't actually know what the authentic movie is like. But I do know some of the items that took place in the United States in between 1950 and 1991. A sampling: Hormonal birth manage! The Feminine Mystique! Title VII! Legal abortion! Title IX! A girl on the Supreme Court! 3 seasons of Murphy Brown!

But you'd never ever guess from this movie. There are two key themes:

one. Steve Martin freaking out more than losing control in excess of his daughter to her husband-to-be.

2. Steve Martin freaking out about how highly-priced the wedding is.

Since losing handle over a lady and losing 1000's of dollars imply that Steve Martin is losing his manhood, and therefore losing what helps make life worth residing.

Maybe surprisingly, I have much less to say about the very first theme. It's played so arch that I feel it efficiently crosses around into productive parody. I surely laughed out loud when Steve Martin envisions his 22-12 months-previous daughter as an adorable 7-year-previous as she describes how fantastic and brilliant her fiancÃ© is. It's a minor much less funny when you contrast his "you're nonetheless my baby" remedy of his grown woman daughter with his interaction with his 10-year-previous Culkin son, whom he regards as a peer. He does not trust his adult daughter to decide whether she desires to wear a jacket, but he trusts his little boy son to re-park dozens of guests' vehicles throughout the reception.

Disturbing, but nevertheless I uncovered myself substantially additional rankled about the "dear lord the charge of weddings!" plotline. Now, I realize from individual practical experience that even individuals with privilege can/need to/do fear about their wedding ceremony funds. But I even now consider it is type of offensively off-placing that the masses are asked to relate to the wedding spending budget panic of the driver of that Aston Martin and proprietor of that property:

The initial 10 minutes of the movie outline how cozy Steve Martin's lifestyle is: He's got a laughably improbably prosperous sneaker production enterprise, with the whitest, least-sweatshop-esque factory in the historical past of athletic footwear. He's received the aforepictured Aston Martin and large home with a white picket fence in picturesque San Marino, California (Southern Californian cities named just after European microstates: undoubtedly dead middle middle class, suitable?). He's sent his daughter to Rome to study for her Masters in architecture, but she nevertheless lives at dwelling when she isn't overseas.

Nevertheless will this spouse and children find the money for a wedding ceremony?!?!

Perhaps they could ask the groom's family members for help? They do reside in Bel Air immediately after all. They are, by Steve Martin's estimation, rich individuals. But he also thinks that it is really offensive for them to offer to aid shell out for the wedding ceremony. He's the father of the bride, right after all! How dare they take away his issues like that?

Or perhaps they shouldn't employ Martin Short's wedding planner, Franck, of ambiguous European origin and not-so-ambiguous sexuality. Gay wedding planners = immediate comedy! They can identify materials! They wear turtlenecks! They pronounce "cake" like "cock!" And they integrate new costs into weddings, like tulip beds, live swans, and Chiavari chairs.

What actually comes about is that Steve Martin is advised by Diane Keaton, his much better 50 %, that all his money panic is taking minor pieces of his daughter's happiness away. So he shuts his mouth and lets the income fly, returning to his core obsession of losing his small lady. And then the wedding reception is so chaotic he doesn't even see his daughter off. But she calls from the airport to tell her dad she still loves him.

Moral of the story? You can invest in your daughter's adore. Even right after she has a husband. Rich white men of the entire world, chill out! It's all excellent.

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