Main Cast: Steve Martin, Diane Keaton, Kimberly Williams, Kieran Culkin, George Newbern
Release Year: 1991
Country: US
Run Time: 105 minutes
MPAA Rating: PG
Plot
Steve Martin stars in this remake of the 1950 Vincente Minnelli classic as shoe executive George Banks, whose happily married existence hits a bump when he greets his daughter Annie (Kimberly Williams), home from a semester studying in Europe. She tells her father that she is engaged to be married. When the shocked George asks to whom, she says his name is Bryan (George Newbern) and that he is an "independent communications consultant." George is even more shocked when he finds out what the wedding will cost (when George goes through the card file for invited wedding guests and is told someone is deceased, George chirps, "He died? That's great!"). As George is ignored during the mad preparations for the wedding, he wistfully looks back to all the good times he has had with Annie and sadly looks forward to the time when he loses his little girl. ~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide
Martin Short - Franck Eggelhoffer; Peter Michael Goetz - John MacKenzie; Kate McGregor-Stewart - Joanna MacKenzie; Robert Bauer - 2nd Waiter; Christine Beliveau - Bridesmaid; Gibby Brand - David; Peter Cooper - Usher; David Day - Usher; Morgan Dox - Bridesmaid; Martha Gehman - Andrea the Florist; Carmen Hayward - Grace; Ira Heiden - Stock Boy; Scott Hogan - Usher; Tom Irish - Ben Banks; Sarah Rose Karr - Annie at Seven; Eric Kay - Usher; Frank Kopyc - Dan the Field Engineer; Marissa Lefton - Annie at Three; Chauncey Leopardi - Cameron; Elisa Mandell - Bridesmaid; Irving Meyers - Guest at Reception; Patricia Meyers - Guest at Reception; Annie Meyers-Shyer - Flower Girl; Hallie Meyers-Shyer - Flower Girl; Peter Murnik - Patrolman; David Pasquesi - Hanck the Caterer; Barbara Perry - Female Factory Worker; Richard Portnow - Al the Tux Salesman; Kevin Shaw - 3rd Waiter; Mark Steen - 1st Waiter; Mina Vasquez - Marta; Thomas Wagner - Police Officer; Natasha Wieland - Bridesmaid; B.D. Wong - Howard Weinstein; Amy Young - Annie at Twelve; Bruce A. Block - Photographer; Eugene Levy; April Ortiz - Olivia; Steve Tyrell - Bandleader; Ed Williams - Reverend; Donna Isaacson
Credit
Erin Cummins - Art Director, John Dexter - Art Director, Bruce A. Block - Associate Producer, Donna Isaacson - Casting, Shirley Kirkes - Choreography, Cindy Williams - Co-producer, Susan Becker - Costume Designer, Rosemarie Fall - Costume Designer, K.C. Colwell - First Assistant Director, Charles Shyer - Director, Richard Marks - Editor, James Cruikshank - Executive Producer, Sandy Gallin - Executive Producer, James Orr - Executive Producer, Alan Silvestri - Composer (Music Score), Brad Wilder - Makeup, Sandy Veneziano - Production Designer, John Lindley - Cinematographer, Paul Deason - Production Manager, Carol Baum - Producer, Nancy Meyers - Producer, Zvi Howard Rosenman - Producer, Charles Shyer - Producer, Geoff Hubbard - Set Designer, Cynthia McCormac - Set Designer, Mark Poll - Set Designer, John Dexter - Set Designer, Allen Hall - Special Effects, Charles D. Knight - Sound/Sound Designer, Darin Knight - Sound/Sound Designer, Charlie Croughwell - Stunts, Rock Walker - Stunts, Debbie Evans - Stunts, Robert Jauregui - Stunts, James Cruikshank - Screenwriter, Nancy Meyers - Screenwriter, James Orr - Screenwriter, Charles Shyer - Screenwriter, Cheryl Smith Dimont - Art Department Assistant, Edward Streeter - Book Author, Frances Goodrich - From Screenplay by, Albert Hackett - From Screenplay by
The film inspired a series of Hallmark commercials that featured the smiling faces of the happy couple and sneak-peeks at the backs of numerous greeting cards. This film is number 92 on Bravo's "100 Funniest Movies".
George Banks (Steve Martin) is an upper-middle-class owner of an athletic shoe company in San Marino, California, whose 22-year-old daughter Annie (Kimberly Williams) has decided to marry a man (George Newbern) from an upper-class family from Bel-Air, despite knowing each other only three months. George can't think of what life would be like without his daughter and becomes slightly insane (especially when he finds out the wedding will cost over $100,000), although his wife (Diane Keaton) tries to make him happy for Annie. When the wedding takes place at their home, along with a foreign wedding planner named Franck (Martin Short) taking over the ceremony, George tries to handle the fact that his daughter has grown up and has a life of her own.
