Rachel Getting Married" is a contemporary drama that takes place during a “long” weekend when a wedding is celebrated. The film makes its leading actress, Anne Hathaway, shine like a star. She plays Kym, a former model leaving rehab to attend her sister Rachel’s wedding (Rosemarie Dewitt). A sensitive character, Kym is in desperate need of love, attention and support by her loved ones but because she need s it so much, she manages to push them away. Her beautiful soul is incapable of fitting harmoniously in this world we live in, but not in a bad way.

The comedy drama from Oscar-winning director Jonathan Demme puts Hathaway in a totally new, but positive light. She finally confirmed what everybody had been expecting from her: a great deal of talent, charm and brightness. Just like her role model, Meryl Streep, with whom she starred in "The Devil Wears Prada," Hathaway is challenging herself. She chose "Rachel Getting Married" because the script had "one of the greatest conflicts I've ever encountered. Granted, I am young," Hathaway allows.

It is a story about caring, tolerance and love. When coming to her sister’s wedding, Kym brings a long history of personal crisis and family conflict along with her. The wedding party's cast of friends and relations have all gathered for an idyllic weekend of feasting, music and love.

The picture also features Bill Irwin as the girls' eternally nervous father and Debra Winger as their remarried mom, still emotionally absent even in her presence at the wedding. Demme at his best, in films like "Melvin and Howard" and "Something Wild," has a wonderfully unstressed way of unveiling his characters. He lets the audience decide what to make of the people onscreen. And the way he did it this time succeeded in hitting the bull’s eye.