It's the story of a woman who is miserable and wants to make everyone else around her miserable too. Nicole Kidman plays Margot, the miserable writer who thinks she knows everything, and Jennifer Jason Leigh, who I have finally forgiven for her performance in Georgia, plays her sister who is about to get married to Jack Black. Kidman might or might not be getting a divorce from her husband in this film and so she sets out to make the upcoming marriage of her sister not happen. It sounds like a weepy chick flick but it's actually pretty good. I hated Kidman's character with the heat of 1000 suns going super nova, which means that she did a hell of an acting job. She's repulsively obnoxious in this film and when she gets her just desserts, she becomes even more of an ass. Jennifer Jason Leigh is really good in this movie and it's good to see her play the relatively normal sibling for a change. Jack Black is good as well and that's because he wasn't allowed to be the usual wacky out there Jack Black character.
But the best performances in this film were by the kids who played the teenagers. As Kidman's son on the cusp of manhood Zane Pais shines. Flora Cross plays his cousin and she shines as well. Also good in a kind of 'heel' role is Halley Feiffer. She plays the object of Pais's affection and the neighborhood bad girl who Jack Black's character dabbled around with.
This film about miserable white people was directed by Noah Baumbach. He must really know this kind terrain well because he also directed The Squid and the Whale, which is also about white folks who are miserable.
Margot at the Wedding is hard to watch at times but I recommend it.
It was directed by the late John Schlesinger, he also directed Marathon Man and Cold Comfort Farm, among many others. It stars Tom Courtney and Julie Christie. The film is about a young man in a dead end job in a northern British city in the early 1960's. In order to cope with his lot in life young Billy develops a vivid imagination. He creates a rich fantasy life which we get to see in all it's humorous detail throughout the film. But as so often is the case Billy's lies and his fantasy comes crashing down around him in the end. His employers find out about his theft, his dream of becoming a paid comedy writer gets squashed, and his two financees find out about one another. But just when Billy has the chance to escape it all by running off to London with the one woman, Julie Christie, who understands and accepts his ways, he blows it and he runs back to the life he knows. 
