Father of the Bride

• Comedy
• Romance

A sweetly anxious comedic portrayal of paternal letting-go, *Father of the Bride* centers on a deeply conventional father’s escalating, often absurd, attempts to navigate his daughter’s unexpected marriage. The film doesn’t revel in slapstick, but instead mines humor from the painfully relatable experience of confronting change and the dissolving of lifelong family dynamics. It’s a surprisingly tender exploration of a father’s identity crisis – not through grand dramatic gestures, but through increasingly frantic, small-town wedding preparations and bewildered interactions with a polished, yet subtly undermining, wedding planner. The comedic tension arises from the clash between George’s grounded, practical world and the escalating extravagance of the wedding, ultimately presenting a surprisingly heartfelt look at accepting a daughter’s independence and discovering new definitions of family.