Product ReviewsFather of the Bride (DVD, 2003)

All around good 1!

My favourite performance of Spencer Tracy's from all the work he did in thirty-seven years in the movies - here he plays harassed father Stanley Banks struggling to cope with the comedy of his daughter Kay's wedding. Kay is played by the young and beautiful Elizabeth Taylor, who had just been married for the first time in real life; and her intended is played by Don Taylor, an actor I haven't seen in anything else, and can't really remember doing anything of interest in this. The family is completed by Joan Bennett as Tracy's wife, and Rusty (later Russ) Tamblyn as their youngest child.

Although the movie does play up the comic potential of the wedding situation - the dad dreams of losing his trousers as he walks down the aisle, for example - it also has moments of poignancy, especially in the last few sequences where the parents dance together in the post-party mess of their once-pristine house. This kind of thing puts the movie above the ordinary, and is exactly what was missing in the Steve Martin remake years later.

And don't let me forget Billie Burke and Moroni Olsen as the groom's parents - really funny!Read full review...

Good Movie

This is a good older movie. I had seen the 90's version and really enjoyed it. This was a good original.

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Doesn't live up to the sequel

Definitely not as good as the sequel. Maybe I would have appreciated it more if I had seen it before the sequel, which is better all around.

Movie

This is one of the great classic movies we have loved for a long time!

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Father of The Bride DVD

The best actors. A true classic.I love this movie!!!

Recommend highly for clean entertainment

Love Spencer Tracy

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Love this classic.

Rewatch this often.

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Love this movie

Love this movie

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Classic

Love it

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father of the bride

love the movie, now I have the original, and the new. thx

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