This movie is about a young woman from California who goes off to Rome for an internship. There in Rome, she falls in love and comes back to America to tell her parents and her younger brother. She unloads the information to her family at the dinner table the night she gets back. She also includes that not only did she and this guy fall in love, but that they are actually engaged! The rest of the movie is mainly about the father and daughter’s relationship and how the father has to learn to cope with the fact that his daughter is growing up.
I can relate to
this movie not because I am engaged, of course, but because of the father’s
reaction. When Annie Banks, the daughter, spills the news at the dinner table,
her father freaks out and starts yelling at her, and then he tells her that she
is NOT going to be getting married. He is not yelling at her in a mean way, but
he is just very shocked and is quite disturbed about this news, being he thinks
she is too young.
I can imagine that
my father would react the same way!
George Banks, the
father, who is played by the actor Steve Martin, has quite a sense of humor,
and so does my father. George freaks out about the cost of the wedding, and he
often would say weird comments around Annie and her fiancé Brian McKenzie…as also
I can imagine my dad might do one day.
George also starts
to act irrationally when he and his wife Nina go to meet Brian’s parents. He
starts sneaking around their house, looking in drawers and cabinets, and even
starts peeking at their checkbook (He is just curious who this family is that
his daughter is getting married into.); this results in him getting chased by
the family’s dogs and lands George in their pool, which is a hilarious scene!
There is also a
scene of George pulling hot dog buns out of the package at the grocery store
because he is upset that he has to buy a pack of twelve hot dog buns when hot
dogs only come in a pack of eight. He is worried about this minute detail
because he is stressed about the costs of the wedding. However, his actions in
the grocery store leads to his being put in jail for a couple of hours!
No, I do not
think my father would react to that extreme! However, like any father would
react to his little girl getting married, I imagine my dad might have some
hilarious reactions to the whole “daughter-getting-married” faze of life. I can
imagine he might be a little skeptical of whoever my finance might be, and I
imagine he might also worry some about the financial side of things. Also like
in the movie though, it is evident that the father and daughter love each other
deeply. And I know this also to be the case of my father and I.
This movie really is such a funny, classy,
wonderful, heart-warming movie…or at least in my opinion…I know some may
disagree with me if they were to watch it, just like some people disagree with
me about the wonderfulness of Disney World, but I think that it really is worth
at least seeing once!
Here are the two
clips that I just mentioned! They really are funny!
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