KISS THE BRIDE GETS REVIEWED
Sean Patrick Flanery's flick gets a breif summary at Indiewire.com
On to the films: the opening-night selection was Vanessa Parise's "Kiss the Bride," rumored to be a kind of "My Big Fat Italian Wedding." It reminded me more of "Melrose Place," however. Amanda Detmer, about as blond and Anglo-Saxon as they come, stars as Danni, an Italian-American girl from Rhode Island who just wants to get married to her hunky fiancé (Johnathon Schaech) and have a normal family wedding. Unfortunately, her sisters are shallow and selfish and always trying to upstage her by showing off their new sports cars and taking off their shirts. Sister Niki (Brooke Langton) is a B grade television actress from L.A., Chrissy (Vanessa Parise) is an obnoxious businesswoman from New York. Toni (Monet Mazur) plays the punky rebel sister who is so bad-ass that she is dabbling in lesbianism with girlfriend Amy (played by Alyssa Milano) more-or-less just to shock her family. Sean Patrick Flanery, Talia Shire, and Burt Young (both "Rocky" alumni) and the older Italian-American family members seem like they could be from an entirely separate, tenable movie. If you decide to take "Kiss the Bride" seriously, you'll be disappointed. But if you accept that this is a shallow film about shallow people, to some extent, it's a brilliant satire of superficiality.
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