Jonathon Demme has described this movie as a home movie and that a great description. It has a lot of great, real moments, some awkward interactions which people which didn't happen, and is also a little too long at parts. While I did shift in my seat at times, the film is nonetheless riveting when it's on and is one of the better films of the year. The script is honest but not cloyingly so. The moments are troubling rather than agonizing. Jenny Lumet's script is superb with one moment in particular that is completely priceless.

In my last post (about Sex Drive), I wrote about well made films that don't connect and aren't as enjoyable. Rachel Getting Married is not one of those films, for me at least. It's definitely an art film and doesn't have broad appeal and I could see many people really not connecting with the characters and their struggles. I did. It's a film that, in the end, is touching because, along the way, it wasn't trying to be so. Anne Hathaway does a great job playing the anti-hero and Rosemarie DeWitt is superb as the wronged (but possibly wrong) sister.

I don't think this movie is one that people will remember for years to come but that doesn't mean that it isn't one of this year's finest.