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Article: Rachel Getting Married.(Movie review)
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- The Christian Century
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- December 2, 2008
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Rachel Getting Married.
Directed by Jonathan Demme.
Starring Anne Hathaway, Rosemarie DeWitt, Tunde Adebimpe and Debra Winger.
Screenwriters love structure: it gives them something to focus on as they plow ahead in their storytelling or to retreat to if they get off track. Familiar structures include the road movie (looking for answers), the journey film (home to Ithaca) and the sit-by-the-fireplace flashback ("Let me tell you about Heathcliffe").
Then there is the "gang's all here" sequence, as in the opening of The Godfather, where we meet the key players and discover some of their concerns; or in the closing of Hamlet, where ...