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Kimberly Williams

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Father of the Bride The Rewatchables
Father of the Bride

Sequel, Prequel, Limited Series, or All-Black Remake

A well-funded continuation about the original couple as grandparents and Annie’s family

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Father of the Bride The Rewatchables
Father of the Bride

Apex Mountain

Mainstream Steve Martin, Kimberly Williams, San Marino, father-daughter movies, and wedding movies

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  • Steve Martin's late-1970s comedy peak is distinguished from a possible mainstream-dad peak beginning with this film. — Bill Simmons
  • The movie is argued to enable Martin's later Oscars-host and America's-dad roles. — Bill Simmons
  • Diane Keaton is rejected because Annie Hall and Something's Gotta Give offer stronger career peaks. — Bill Simmons
  • Kimberly Williams receives a yes based on her defining role. — Bill Simmons
  • Father-daughter movies receive an unqualified apex verdict. — Bill Simmons
  • San Marino receives an emphatic yes. — Bill Simmons
  • Dads receive a tentative but explicit probably-not verdict. — Bill Simmons
  • Wedding movies receive an apex case because this film builds an entire happy story around the wedding. — Amanda Dobbins
  • The film is credited with helping start a 1990s wave including Four Weddings and a Funeral, The Wedding Planner, and The Wedding Singer. — Amanda Dobbins
Father of the Bride The Rewatchables
Father of the Bride

What’s Aged the Best?

Kieran Culkin, Kimberly Williams, San Marino, the basketball scene, the overwhelmed father, changing marriage norms, and the hot-dog arithmetic

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  • Kieran Culkin's small reactions are newly funny because the child performance anticipates his later Roman Roy mannerisms. — Bill Simmons
  • The child performance plays the role simply and still nails the few kid-scene-stealing moments. — Bill Simmons
  • Kimberly Williams is delightful and immediately believable as Steve Martin's daughter. — Bill Simmons
  • Williams and Martin create father-daughter chemistry even in quiet basketball movement. — Amanda Dobbins
  • The movie defined Williams so strongly as Annie that the panel had difficulty imagining an obvious next role for her. — Bill Simmons
  • San Marino is praised as an unusually pleasant, beautiful Southern California setting. — Bill Simmons
  • The basketball scene is unusually convincing for a movie father-daughter game. — Bill Simmons
  • The montage shows enough continuous movement to suggest that Steve Martin made at least one trick shot himself. — Bill Simmons
  • An overwhelmed father struggling to afford a wedding remains a durable comic plot. — Amanda Dobbins
  • The wedding-planning escalation still feels accurate because small decisions rapidly add expense and complexity. — Amanda Dobbins
  • The film is presented as marking the baby-boomer generation's move away from countercultural ideas of marriage. — Bill Simmons
  • The hot-dog and bun mismatch remains relatable because mismatched package quantities still create needless arithmetic. — Amanda Dobbins
Father of the Bride The Rewatchables
Father of the Bride

Most Rewatchable Scene

The family dinner where Annie announces her engagement

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  • The opening direct-to-camera monologue works despite the panel's usual skepticism about narration because Steve Martin sells the writing. — Bill Simmons
  • The narration lets George express fears he cannot tell his family until the end. — Bill Simmons
  • Annie's marriage announcement is rewatchable for Steve Martin's horrified reaction to his twenty-two-year-old daughter getting engaged. — Bill Simmons
  • The flashback that replaces Annie with her seven-year-old self captures a parent's inability to see a child as an adult. — Bill Simmons
  • Diane Keaton's growing happiness during the announcement contrasts with Martin's panic and makes the family dynamic visible. — Bill Simmons
  • The dialogue about Paul Simon tickets and an independent communications consultant supplies specific comic detail. — Amanda Dobbins
  • Brian's first meeting with George works because the son-in-law is pleasant and unthreatening enough to leave the story centered on the family. — Amanda Dobbins
  • Cutting the wedding list is funny because its ruthless logic includes crossing off a guest who died. — Bill Simmons
  • Kimberly Williams sells Annie's disproportionate anger during the blender fight. — Bill Simmons
  • George helping resolve the blender fight shows that love for his daughter overrides his resistance to the marriage. — Bill Simmons
  • Steve Martin opening the feared gift box only to find a blender gives the scene a physical-comedy payoff. — Amanda Dobbins
  • The childhood montage into the basketball scene combines Darling with a sentimental father-daughter memory. — Amanda Dobbins
  • The final family-dinner choice establishes every central relationship and lets each actor react differently to the engagement. — Bill Simmons
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Father of the Bride

1991