The basic story revolves around an orphanage in India that is in danger of going broke and the actions needed to keep it afloat. These efforts are filtered through a number of family secrets and coloured by how people deal with grief and betrayal. Things unfold layer by layer by layer.

The stats of the new version look promising with a cast that includes heavyweights like Julianne Moore, Michelle Williams and Billy Crudup. The location for securing the needed funding has been changed to New York City and this emphasises the different worlds by contrasting Western opulence with the simplicity of India.

It’s in the human interaction when things go astray. The acting in this really lets it down. Moore is unusually shrill and over the top and Williams is disengaged and flat. There are a few scenes that work and engenders real pathos but they are sadly in the minority. Unfortunately mark this one down as lost in translation.

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As if driven by an inescapable force, Isabel (Michelle Williams) has devoted her life to running an orphanage in a Calcutta slum. With funds running dry, a potential donor, who requires she travel from India to New York, to deliver a presentation in-person, contacts Isabel. At first balking at the demand of an uncommitted philanthropist, she relents, and travels to a city she deliberately hasn’t returned to in over two decades.

Once in New York, Isabel lands uncomfortably in the sites of the orphanage’s possible benefactor, Theresa Young (Julianne Moore), a multi-millionaire media mogul. From the glittering skyscraper where she runs her successful business, to the glorious Oyster Bay estate, where she lives happily with her artist husband, Oscar Carlson (Billy Crudup), 21-year-old daughter, Grace (Abby Quinn), and eight-year-old twins, Theo and Otto, Theresa’s life couldn’t appear to be more perfect. But appearances are only skin deep, and Isabel and Theresa have more in common than meets the eye.

While Isabel thinks she’ll soon be returning to her beloved orphanage, Theresa has other plans. She insists Isabel attend Grace’s wedding at the family’s estate. The joyful event becomes a catalyst for a revelation that upends the lives of both women, and the people who love them most.

With the same quiet depth and intensity found in Ordinary People and Terms of Endearment, After the Wedding celebrates the complex, transformative power of the most primal of human connections, as well as the ever-expanding definition of what makes a family.

Based on the Academy Award nominated film by Susanne Bier, After the Wedding stars: Academy Award winner Julianne Moore (Bel Canto, Gloria), Academy Award nominee Michelle Williams (Venom, I Feel Pretty), Billy Crudup (Where’d You Go, Bernadette), Abby Quinn (Bumblebee, Good Girls Get High), and Alex Esola (Orange is the New Black, The Young Pope).

After the Wedding is releasing in Australian cinemas October 24, 2019.

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Competition will be drawn October 11 2019, winners will be notified by mail.