After the Wedding Dvd

After the Wedding is a 2019 American drama film written and directed by Bart Freundlich. It is a remake of the 2006 film of the same name by Susanne Bier. It stars Julianne Moore, Michelle Williams, Billy Crudup, and Abby Quinn.

The film had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 24, 2019, and was released in the United States on August 9, 2019, by Sony Pictures Classics.

Plot

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Isabel (Williams), co-founder of an orphanage in India, travels to New York to meet a potential benefactor, Theresa (Moore), who is about to sell her company and seeking a worthy charity to donate to. Isabel is reluctant to travel to New York due to her responsibility at the orphanage and leave a boy whom she raised. Despite her frustration at having to travel halfway across the world, Isabel agrees to the meeting, which falls the day before Theresa’s daughter Grace’s (Quinn) wedding. Theresa invites Isabel to the wedding as a courtesy for her coming all this way to meet with her.

At the wedding, Isabel is surprised to see Theresa’s husband is her former flame, Oscar. During Theresa’s wedding toast, she also discovers that Grace is in fact Isabel’s own daughter by Oscar, who was supposed to have been given up for adoption. Isabel learns that after the couple parted ways, Oscar secretly returned and raised Grace himself, before meeting and marrying Theresa years later.

Though denying she knew Isabel’s identity beforehand, Theresa pushes Isabel to get to know Grace and reacquaint with Oscar, and finds repeated excuses to extend Isabel’s stay. She even makes her (ever growing) donation contingent on Isabel remaining in New York.

Eventually, it transpires that Theresa is dying of cancer—a secret she has kept from her entire family. Her efforts with Isabel have been to install her as a new mother figure for both Grace and Theresa’s own eight-year-old twin boys.

By the film’s conclusion, all the secrets are out and the characters come to an understanding before Theresa’s passing. Isabel briefly returns to her orphanage, inviting the boy she rescued and raised from infancy to join her in New York.

Cast

Julianne Moore as Theresa Young, Oscar’s wife and Grace’s mother, a millionaire and benefactor whom Isabel must meet
Michelle Williams as Isabel Anderson
Billy Crudup as Oscar Carlson, Theresa’s husband and Grace’s father
Abby Quinn as Grace Carlson, Theresa and Oscar’s daughter
Will Chase as Frank