Main Cast: Bette Midler, Dennis Farina, Paula Marshall, Gail O'Grady, David Rasche
Release Year: 1997
Country: US
Run Time: 105 minutes
MPAA Rating: PG13
Plot
In this Carl Reiner-directed romantic comedy, Bette Midler stars as a movie star named Lilly, who has had a fairly successful career which is now on the downturn. Years after a terrible divorce, she meets up again with her ex-husband Dan (Dennis Farina) at the wedding of their daughter Molly (Paula Marshall). Molly is marrying a young and promising politician, Keith Marks (Jamie Denton), and the wedding is a formal affair. Lilly and Dan have each remarried, and each despise the other's new spouse. Dan has taken up with the young bombshell who ruined the marriage, Rowena (Gail O'Grady). Lilly is wedded to their former marriage counselor, Alan (David Rasche), a psychobabble-spouting shrink. Lilly and Dan engage in a huge shouting match at the reception, and they are shooed outside, where their argument leads to a passionate reunion in a sports car. Impulsively, they run away together. Keith, seeking damage control to avert a possible political scandal, enlists Molly's help, and she hires a papparazi photographer, Joey (Danny Nucci), who has spent several years stalking Lilly with his camera and selling candid photos to celebrity magazines. Molly and Joey find Molly's parents at a hotel, but Lilly locks them in a room together so that she and Dan can have one old last romantic evening. Molly and Joey find themselves uncomfortably attracted to each other, leading to more romantic trouble. ~ Michael Betzold, All Movie Guide
Alicia Keywan - Art Director, Nancy Mayor - Casting, Robert de Mora - Costume Designer, Myron Hoffert - First Assistant Director, Carl Reiner - Director, Richard Halsey - Editor, Tom Joyner - Executive Producer, Patrick Williams - Composer (Music Score), Timothy R. Sexton - Musical Direction/Supervision, Sandy Veneziano - Production Designer, Steve Mason - Cinematographer, Leslie Dixon - Producer, Bonnie Bruckheimer - Producer, Bruce Carwardine - Sound/Sound Designer, Leslie Dixon - Screenwriter
Molly De Mora (Paula Marshall) invites her divorced parents (Bette Midler and Dennis Farina) to her wedding reception, where they see each other for the first time in 14 years. A shouting match between the two ensues. Following this, their spark is rekindled during the wedding reception. Over the next few days they fall in love again and run off together, thereby upsetting the newlyweds' honeymoon and their respective (current) spouses. If the scandal was made public it would be more controversial than usual, since the bride's husband hopes to stand for election to Congress. After searching for her parents and getting to know Joey Donna (Danny Nucci) who she hires to help her find them, Molly decides that her parents deserve a chance to be together and gives them her honeymoon to Hawaii. When Keith objects to her decision, an unexpected surprise is revealed. Knowing now that her marriage was a mistake, Molly runs off with Joey as her parents run off to Hawaii.
