Rachel Getting Married (2008) Anne Hathaway Kym Debra Winger Abby/ Abby Bill Irwin Paul Tunde Adebimpe Sidney Anna Deavere Smith Carol Rosemarie DeWitt Rachel Mather Zickel Kieran Beau Sia Wedding Czar Tamyra Gray (II) Singing Friend Darrell Larson 12-Step Group Leader Michelle Federer 12-Step Reader Molly Hickok 12-Step Veteran Big Jim Wheeler 12-Step Meeting Josh Broder 12-Step Meeting Bruce Bennetts 12-Step Meeting Paul Sparks 12-Step Meeting Daniel Wolff (II) 12-Step Meeting Jill Dalton 12-Step Meeting Joseph Alessi 12-Step Meeting Jordan Cael 12-Step Meeting Tiffany Little Canfield 12-Step Meeting Barry Eastmond Wedding Drummer Brooklyn Demme Wedding Guitarist Carol-Jean Lewis Sidney's Mom John Anthony Sidney's Dad Directed by: Jonathan Demme Produced by: Ilona Herzberg, Carol Cuddy, Jonathan Demme When Kym returns to the Buchman family home for the wedding of her sister Rachel, she brings a long history of personal crisis and family conflict along with her. The wedding party's abundant cast of friends and relations have gathered for an idyllic weekend of feasting, music and love, but Kym -- with her black-comic one-liners and knack for bombshell drama -- is a catalyst for long-simmering tensions in the family dynamic. ========== "Rachel Getting Married" is a about the return of an estranged daughter to the family home for her sister's wedding. Kym's reemergence throws a wrench into the family dynamics, forcing long-simmering tensions to surface in ways both hilarious and heartbreaking. ========== Kym is released from rehab for a few days so she can go home to attend her sister Rachel's wedding. The home environment is always challenging for a recovering addict, no less so when the visit if only for a few days. While the sisters feel genuine affection for one another, there is tension in their relationship. Rachel feels that her father dotes on Kym far too much and Kym is upset to learn that Rachel has selected a friend to be her maid of honor. Their father is genuinely concerned about Kym's well-being but doesn't see the stress the relationship is causing. Both women also have to deal with their selfish mother who is clearly more concerned with her own well-being ahead of that of her children. Underlying the family's dynamic is a tragedy that occurred many years previously and for which Kym is held by some to be responsible. ========== Rachel and Sidney decide to get married, and Rachel's friend, Emma, is to be the maid of honor. Arrangements for a traditional Indian service are made. However, much to Emma's chagrin, she is replaced by Kym, Rachel's substance-abusing sister who appears shortly before the engagement. It is on the day of the formal engagement that Rachel and the rest of the family will realize that involving Kym may have been a huge mistake, the past will be re-visited and skeletons will start surfacing from hitherto closed and forgotten closets.