The Catered Affair

1956
Approved
1h 34min

CALIFICACIÓN DE IMDb

7.4/10

3.9 k

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At breakfast, Jane announces that she and Ralph are getting married the next week. All Jane and Ralph want is a small wedding with the immediate family and no reception, because Jane's parents are poor and Jane and Ralph can borrow a car for their honeymoon. But at dinner that night, all Ralph's parents talk about are the big weddings they gave their daughters, and everything escalates. Suddenly it's a big wedding breakfast with hundreds of guests. The problem is that for 12 years, Tom has been saving money to buy his own cab and license, but now that he can, all of that money is going towards a wedding that neither he nor Jane nor Ralph really want.

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Comedy Drama Romance

Jane Hurley comunica a sus padres Tom y Agnes que va a casarse con Ralph Halloran, Agnes empieza a planear una gran boda, a pesar de que Jane y Ralph no la desean y Tom no puede permitírsela... Leer todoJane Hurley comunica a sus padres Tom y Agnes que va a casarse con Ralph Halloran, Agnes empieza a planear una gran boda, a pesar de que Jane y Ralph no la desean y Tom no puede permitírsela.Jane Hurley comunica a sus padres Tom y Agnes que va a casarse con Ralph Halloran, Agnes empieza a planear una gran boda, a pesar de que Jane y Ralph no la desean y Tom no puede permitírsela.

Dirección
- Richard Brooks
Guionistas
- Gore Vidal
- Paddy Chayefsky
Elenco

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CALIFICACIÓN DE IMDb

7.4/10

3.9 k

TU CALIFICACIÓN

Dirección
- Richard Brooks
Guionistas
- Gore Vidal
- Paddy Chayefsky
Elenco

Ver la información de producción en IMDbPro

Premios
- 2 premios ganados en total

Trivia
Craggy-faced Ernest Borgnine was 39 when this film came out, only 15 years older than his film daughter Debbie Reynolds, who was 24. His wife in the film, Bette Davis, was 48.

Errores
(at around 30 mins) Ralph (Rod Taylor) and Jane (Debbie Reynolds) are sitting next to each other in front of the window. In the next moment, Uncle Jack (Barry Fitzgerald) then appears in the room, but now Ralph is sitting at the opposite end of the table away from Jane, and Uncle Jack takes the seat where Ralph had been.

Citas
Agnes Hurley: You're going to have a big wedding whether you like it or not! And if you don't like it, you don't have to come!

Versiones alternativas
Also shown in a computer colorized version.

Conexiones
Featured in AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Bette Davis (1977)

Bandas sonoras
Cailín Deas Crúite na mBó (A Pretty Girl Milking Her Cow)
Traditional 18th-century Irish ballad

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Opinión

Opinión destacada

9/10

Touching, nuanced

An unjustly neglected "kitchen sink" movie from the fifties, with fine performances by all and intriguing New York locations.

Bette Davis and Ernest Borgnine portray the very much working-class parents of a young woman who is about to get married, and just wants a quick ceremony with no reception. But the mother, guilty about "not giving her daughter anything" over the years, pushes for an expensive "catered affair" that her husband cannot afford, and would use money he planned to devote to buying a taxicab license.

Davis' brassy performance has received the most attention, but Borgnine's subtle, nuanced portrayal of the father is what really sustains this movie. Barry Fitzgerald provides comic relief as a "oirish" uncle. Altogether a charming and touching film that is very much a slice of life of NYC in the fifties. Like the other Chayefsky scripts of this era, it explores themes that would have been unpalatable or mawkish for any other writer.