Article: something for all the family Margot at the Wedding The Accidental Husband

The acrid whiff of family dysfunction can be detected from the outset of Margot at the Wedding (15), when a long-haired boy, Claude (Zane Pais), locks himself in a train lavatory in order to let loose a long-suppressed scream. With him on the journey is his mother Margot (Nicole Kidman, above left, with Pais), a precisely elegant writer with a razor-sharp talent for selecting the word that will inflict the deepest wound on those she loves the most.

Mother and son are on their way to the wedding of Margot's sister, Pauline (Jennifer Jason Leigh). The sisters have in common a willowy frame and long brown hair, but Margot is the more judgmental and successful of the two. There is a palpable, ...