Out at the Wedding

This film is very silly, so if you are going to watch it, you need to be prepared for a ridiculous plot and some less than stellar acting (Reginald VelJohnson is good, and one wishes Mink Stole had been encouraged to camp it up a bit).

 

Basically, the main character, Alex, is a woman in love with a man. So far so uncomplicated. But Alex doesn’t seem to care much for her family, so she’s told the man that her entire family is dead. Meanwhile, she rarely sees her father and sister (her mother actually is dead). Somehow, when she goes to her sister’s wedding, her best friend accidentally tells everyone there that Alex is gay, when in fact it’s the best friend who is.

 

Alex’s sister doesn’t take kindly to being upstaged at her wedding, but she is sympathetic to the idea that Alex felt unable to tell the family about being a lesbian. Rather than let her sister believe that she ruined the wedding for no reason, Alex lets her sister continue to believe that she is gay and that she’s in a relationship with a half-black, half-Jewish woman named Dana (in fact her boyfriend is a half-black, half-Jewish man named Dana).

 

When her sister comes to visit her, she ends up hiring an actual lesbian to pretend to be this half-black, half-Jewish woman named Dana. As you can imagine, much ridiculousness ensues.

 

The whole premise is unbelievable, but if you can get past that, it’s an easy watch. Alex ends up reconciled with her family, one woman gets her man, and another woman gets her woman. Happily ever after.

 

The most I can say is that at least it’s not depressing and at least it doesn’t feature a predatory lesbian, as many gay films seem to.