Betsy's Wedding / Holy Matrimony

Betsy’s Wedding (1990)

For bride-to-be Betsy Hopper (Molly Ringwald), it's the biggest day in her life. But for her harried father Eddie (Alan Alda, who wrote and directed)--so desperate to impress his little girl's well-off new in-laws-to-be--it's a day loaded with one comic catastrophe after another. Hilarious, heartfelt look at marital misadventures also stars Joe Pesci, Ally Sheedy, Madeline Kahn, Catherine O'Hara, Anthony LaPaglia, and Joey Bishop. 94 min. C/Rtg: R

Holy Matrimony (1994)

After robbing a carnival, criminal couple Havana and Peter (Patricia Arquette, Tate Donovan) flee to Canada to hide out in the Hutterite community where he was raised. They marry and try to abide by the colony's strict religious code, but a bad situation for Havana gets worse when Peter dies, and she gets remarried--to his 12-year-old brother (Joseph Gordon-Levitt)--in a bid to find out where Peter hid their loot. Dark farce co-stars Armin Mueller-Stahl, John Schuck, Courtney B. Vance; Leonard Nimoy directs. 93 min. C/Rtg: PG-13

Widescreen; Soundtrack: English; theatrical trailers.