Betsy's Wedding

Jun 22, 1990

1h 34m

★ 5.7

The wedding picture doesn't always tell the real story.

Overview

Offbeat fashion student Betsy Hopper and her straight-laced investment-banker fiancé Jake Lovell just want an intimate little wedding reception, but Betsy's father Eddie, a Long Island construction contractor, feels so threatened by Jake's rich WASP parents that he blows the ceremony up into a bank-breaking showpiece, sending his wife Lola into a financial panic.

Genres

Comedy

Romance

Production Companies

Betsy's Wedding

Touchstone Pictures

Silver Screen Partners IV

Martin Bregman Productions

Betsy's Wedding Trailers

Cast

Eddie Hopper

Alan Alda

Eddie's Father

Joey Bishop

Lola Hopper

Madeline Kahn

Stevie Dee

Anthony LaPaglia

Gloria Henner

Catherine O'Hara

Oscar Henner

Joe Pesci

Betsy Hopper

Molly Ringwald

Connie Hopper

Ally Sheedy

Georgie

Burt Young

Grandma

Julie Bovasso

Harry Lovell

Nicolas Coster

Nancy Lovell

Bibi Besch

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