Out At The Wedding (2007)

Out at the Wedding (2007) ~ Reginald VelJohnson, Charlie Schlatter, Mink Stole, and Mike Farrell

GENRE: Comedy | Romance

PLOT

Out At The Wedding is a comedy cocktail with a splash of southern
comfort and a twist!

Transplanted Southerner, Alex Houston (Andrea Marcellus), has
found life as a successful wine importer in Manhattan to be a
pretty fabulous life. Laughs come in spades from her best gay pal
since childhood, Jonathan (Charlie Schlatter) and love is found
in the package of Dana (Mystro Clark), a dreamy bi-racial airline
pilot. When he unexpectedly proposes to her the day she's to
leave town for her sister's wedding, life gets complicated.
Having assumed her southern family would never accept her ethnic
boyfriend, she's never told them he exists. In turn, she's led
Dana to believe her entire family is dead. Now, don't judge her
too harshly, it was sort of a mix up that turned into genocide.
Making an excuse to leave town, she takes Jonathan as her date to
the wedding and figures once she gets through the weekend, she'll
come clean to everyone.

Once back in South Carolina, it's a minefield of emotion as she
deals with her distant father (Mike Farrell), her overly
exuberant sister Jeannie (Desi Lydic) and all the relatives and
friends of her past who can't believe she's still single.
Especially curious is Alex's dim high school sweetheart who
misunderstands a conversation with Jonathan and starts spreading
a rumor at the reception that she's gay. When an inebriated Alex
gives a thinly veiled speech about her interracial relationship
at the wedding, everyone mistakenly thinks it's a big coming out
speech. After unsuccessfully trying to set everyone straight so
to speak, her right wing family has a decidedly left wing
response and the lie actually brings them all closer.

As the two sisters build a relationship they've never been able
to cultivate before, Alex can't bring herself to fess up she's
straight. When Jeannie comes back from her honeymoon and wants to
come to New York and meet Alex's lesbian love “Dana,” Jonathan
comes up with an idea to “hire” a girlfriend. That's when things
really start to get complicated!

Out At The Wedding is about relationships. It's about the thin
line between trust and truth and the incredible comic lengths we
go to avoid both. But essentially the film is a love story
between two sisters, who desperately want to be friends, but only
know how to be family.