A Simple Wedding is an easy going romantic comedy
Director: Sara Zandieh
Writer: Sara Zandieh, Stephanie Wu (Screenplay)
Starring: Tara Grammy, Christpher O’Shea, Peter Mackenzie, Maz Jobrani, James Eckhouse, Rita Wilson, Shohreh Aghdashloo
Plot: A young Iranian-American woman goes to great lengths to appease her parents and their need to see her settled down.
Runtime: 1 Hour 28 Minutes
There may be spoilers in the rest of the review
Story: A Simple Wedding starts when Iranian American woman Nousha (Grammy) sees her engagement ended by his future husband’s family. Keaving her down, but relieved about the wedding not happening.
Nousha looking to move on with her life meets Alex (O’Shea) leading to sparks flying, but Nousha has one problem, her parents. Who aren’t going to make marrying an American easy, determined to have a wedding in their traditional Persian ways.
Thoughts on A Simple Wedding
A Simple Wedding is a romantic comedy that will show the addition pressure piled on daughters from an Iranian background. When it comes to marriage, traditions and following family expectations.
This will see how the changes in the world will create different expectation in marriage from each culture. While the mix will only end up making things more complicated for both of them. It will show that you need to understand yourself before you can let someone else into your life. The performances will get the laughs along the way. With this movie being focused more on getting the point that times keep changing over, than a romance story that feels completely natural.
