Excellent adaptation.

Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

Funny, strange, confrontational and subversive, this is one of the most interesting experiences you'll have at the cinema this year.

I discovered this movie because one of my friends' last name is Sposato, and upon entering his name into Wikipedia he found this movie about a Sposato family set in Westerly, coincidentally our home town. I saw that Sean Patrick Flanery, one of my favorite actors, was in it, and I decided to rent this movie from Netflix. Altogether, I was not impressed. First of all, Sean Patrick Flanery is one hundred percent Irish, in case you couldn't tell, and he simply cannot pull off a character named Terranova. It just can't be done. While the movie was allegedly filmed in Westerly, Rhode Island, my friends and I recognized only one setting, and that was a brief three-second drive through down town. The portrayal of an Italian-American family was poorly done. No self respecting Italian with grandparents that came from Italy would call said grandparents "Grandma" and "Grandpa." The behavior of three of the four sisters would not be acceptable in an Italian-American home. Also, the general characterization and plot were poorly developed. Most of the characters were lifeless and flat, and the climax was so obvious it was like the script said, "Insert horribly cliché climax here." While the movie had some funny bits, some romantic bits, and some clever Italian bits, all in all it was not very impressive.

I was home sick for the day, and this movie was on cable. Sounded mildly interesting, so I caught it about 20 minutes in. (To date, I've still never seen the first 20 minutes.) I was immediately held by what was happening on-screen, and I never looked back. This movie swept me away. I loved every minute of it, and I'm not easy to please. The acting was really quite refreshing and surprising, as I'd seen most of the cast in other roles. This movie proved to be a nicely-done reminder of exactly why I liked them so much (ie. Brooke Langton in The Replacements, Amanda Detmer in Saving Silverman, and Talia Shire...c'mon..."ADRIAN!"). I'm currently searching my DVR for upcoming showings so I can record it and see what I'm missing. Do yourself a favor, be sick from work and catch this one. You won't regret it if you've got a heart and a brain.Note: I'll return and give this movie a 10 if proved worthy.

I had the unfortunate experience of watching a screener version of this movie. Not that long into an already bad film, I was so distracted by the performance of one the sisters, that it made everything else fade into insignificance. The "actress" who plays one of the leads -- a have-it-all high powered exec, who comes home for her sister's wedding -- does such a terrible job that it literally makes you wonder how this woman was cast in the first place. However, If you keep watching there is an answer (which is the only satisfying conclusion to watching this film until the end): in the credits, you realize that the actress is also the writer/director, and all of a sudden Vanessa Parise's unwatchable performance makes sense (it doesn't bode well for the people who worked on this film that no one told her the nasal valley girl thing just doesn't work for this role).Too bad -- the rest of cast is decent; Alyssa Milano, Talia Shire, Burt Young, Jonathan Schaechter, Brooke Langton -- though you can see that they don't know what to do with the clichéd script (let's not get started on the script). And what's with the soundtrack? Like Parise's acting, it's just amateur and self conscious. I would almost recommend this film just as a lesson in what-not-to-do-in-your-first-film Guide.

Kiss the Bride is a special film because it is excellent on different levels. First, it's just fun to watch. The story immediately caught my interest and then managed to hold it without falter throughout the whole film. I had to know what was going to happen to each character. The side stories, interesting and honest family relationships, and personal struggles of each character gave this movie depth. By the end, I wanted to see another Vanessa Parise film about each member of the family.On another plane, Kiss the Bride made me analyze human nature, families, and most of all the relationship between what we are as individuals and what we are as parts of a family. Each sister strives to achieve her personal goals while at the same time she works hard at eliciting a certain reaction from her family. The feelings and displays of anger, misunderstanding, frustration, fear, and ultimately love that this individual/family struggle call forth are so honest and true that many times I was deeply touched.The gorgeous setting in the beach side town of Watch Hill, RI made this film even better. The costuming was perfectly done as well. It aided in the development of each sister's distinct personality right from the outset. The director captured the constant motion, energy, and culture of this Italian-American family with scenes of gorgeous meals, impromptu songs sung by family members, and emotionally heated discussions. All of these characteristics made the mood palpable.I laughed a lot in this movie and shed some tears as well. The story and the characters were very real to me and I could relate my life as a thirty year old strongly to those of the sisters in Kiss the Bride. Vanessa Parise has a gift for bringing out those confusing and conflicted feelings we all have about ourselves and our loved ones.