“Eloise is our half sister, which means we can half ass the relationship,” we’re advised in the trailer for Claire Scanlon’s “The People We Hate at the Wedding.” The Prime Video comedy stars “The Good Place” alumna Kristen Bell as Alice, who, alongside along with her mom (Allison Janney, “Lou”) and brother Paul (Ben Platt. “Dear Evan Hansen”), voyages to England to attend the marriage ceremony of her well-to-do half-sister, Eloise (Cynthia Addai-Robinson, “The Rings of Power”). But the alternative for the estranged members of the family to reconcile falls flat as tensions mount in the week main as much as the ceremony.
“The family’s many skeletons are wrenched from the closet, and the unlikely reunion gives everyone the motivation to move their own lives forward,” the movie’s synopsis teases. “The People We Hate at the Wedding” guarantees to be a relatable marriage ceremony comedy “for anyone with a slightly dysfunctional family (everyone), or anyone who’s been forced to attend a wedding they tried to avoid (also everyone).”
“You know how at every wedding there are those people who everyone talks about after?” Janney’s character asks her kids whereas they’re all detained in a holding cell. “We’re those people this time.”
Bell just lately starred in “The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window,” a Netflix collection spoofing homicide mysteries. Janney was final seen in Anna Foerster’s “Lou,” an motion pic which sees the Oscar-winning “I, Tonya” actress serving to a determined mom (Jurnee Smollett, “Birds of Prey”) discover her kidnapped daughter.
A veteran in the comedy style, Scanlon gained an Emmy in 2013 for her enhancing work on “The Office.” “The People We Hate at the Wedding” follows her 2020 movie sequel to “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt,” “Kimmy vs the Reverend,” an interactive story that follows the cult survivor performed by Ellie Kemper.
Written by siblings Lizzie Molyneux-Logelin and Wendy Molyneux, each recognized for his or her work on “Bob’s Burgers,” “The People We Hate at the Wedding” launches on Prime Video November 18.
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