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MPAA Rating: R Content Advisory: Adult Situations, Questionable for Children, Profanity Movie Release: 2001 DVD Release: 09/10/2002 Format: DVD - Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV Audio Tracks: Spanish Subtitles: English, French SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 2 hrs 4 mins Studio: Columbia TriStar Members Wishing: 2 Genres: Comedy Drama, Comedy of Manners, Family Drama See Also: El Hijo de la Novia

A family wedding brings out the best and the worst in the various parties involved in this warm but pointed comedy-drama. Rafael Belvedere (Ricardo Darín) makes his living running the restaurant ran by his father, Nino (Héctor Alterio), and the combination of a stressful job and familial tensions are wearing him down to a frazzle. Rafael is divorced from his wife, Sandra (Claudia Fontan), he's all but a stranger to his daughter, Vicky (Gimena Nobile), and it's been almost a year since he last paid a visit to his mother, Norma (Norma Aleandro), who is battling Alzheimer's in a retirement home. Rafael has a girlfriend, Naty (Natalia Verbeke), but after a long day of work and dealing with his father, she finds he rarely wants to do anything but watch old reruns on television. With Norma's health declining, Nino decides that he wants to renew their wedding vows and give his wife the nice church service he couldn't afford when he was younger; however, arranging the affair turns out to be far more complicated than either Rafael or Nino imagined, and the circumstances lead to some profound changes for father, son, and the rest of the family. El Hijo de la Novia was directed by Juan Jose Campanella, who in recent years has been dividing his time between helming feature films in his native Argentina and directing episodic television in America. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

Ricardo Darín - Rafael Belvedere
Héctor Alterio - Nino Belvedere
Norma Aleandro - Norma Belvedere
Eduardo Blanco - Juan Carlos
Natalia Verbeke - Naty
Claudia Fontan - Sandra

Juan Jose Campanella's love story Son of the Bride comes to DVD with a widescreen transfer that preserves the original theatrical aspect ratio of 1.85:1. The Spanish soundtrack is rendered in Dolby Digital 5.1. English and French subtitles are accessible. Supplemental materials include the theatrical trailers. This is a solid release from Columbia/TriStar that should be of value to anyone with an interest in international cinema. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide