A young woman who has been in and out from rehab for the past 10 years returns home for the weekend for her sister's wedding.
09-03-2008
1h 53m
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Main Cast
Movie Details
Production Info
Director:
Jonathan Demme
Writer:
Jenny Lumet
Production:
Clinica Estetico, Marc Platt Productions
Revenue:
$16,937,968
Key Crew
Executive Producer:
Carol Cuddy
Executive Producer:
Ilona Herzberg
Original Music Composer:
Zafer Tawil
Original Music Composer:
Donald Harrison Jr.
Producer:
Jonathan Demme
Locations and Languages
Country:
US
Filming:
US
Languages:
en
Main Cast
Anne Hathaway
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As a teenager, she was cast in the television series Get Real (1999–2000) and made her breakthrough as the protagonist in her debut film, the Disney comedy The Princess Diaries (2001). Hathaway made a transition to adult roles with the 2005 dramas Havoc and Brokeback Mountain. The comedy-drama The Devil Wears Prada (2006), in which she played an assistant to a fashion magazine editor, was her biggest commercial success to that point.
She played a recovering addict with a mental illness in the drama Rachel Getting Married (2008), which earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. She went on to star in several commercially successful films, including the comedy Get Smart (2008), the romances Bride Wars (2009), Valentine's Day (2010), and Love & Other Drugs (2010), and the fantasy film Alice in Wonderland (2010). In 2012, she starred as Selina Kyle / Catwoman in her highest-grossing film, The Dark Knight Rises. Also that year, she played Fantine, a prostitute dying of tuberculosis, in the musical Les Misérables, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
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