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- Starring: Ricardo Darín, Héctor Alterio, Norma Aleandro.

- Director: Juan Jose Campanella

- Encoding: Region 1 - NTSC

- Format: Color

- Rated: R (Not for children)

- Release Date: Sep. 10, 2002

- Run Time: 92 min.

- Languages: Spanish (Español)

- Subtitles: English

- General: 2001 - Spain / Argentina - 124 min. - Feature, Color. 

- Genre/Type: Comedy Drama, Comedy of Manners.

- Themes: Family Gatherings, Midlife Crises, Golden Years.

Rafael piensa que las cosas deberían irle mejor: dedica 24 horas al día a su restaurante, está divorciado, ve muy poco a su hija, no tiene amigos y elude comprometerse con su novia. Además, desde hace mucho tiempo no visita a su madre, internada en un geriátrico porque sufre el mal de Alzheimer. Una serie de acontecimientos inesperados le obligan a replantearse su vida. Entre ellos, la intención que tiene su padre de cumplir el viejo sueño de su madre: casarse por la Iglesia

A family wedding brings out the best and the worst in the various parties involved in this warm but pointed comedy-drama. Rafael Belvedere (Ricardo Darin) makes his living running the restaurant ran by his father, Nino (Hector Alterio), and the combination of a stressful job and familial tensions are wearing him down to a frazzle. Rafael is divorced from his wife, Sandra (Claudia Fontan), he's all but a stranger to his daughter, Vicky (Gimena Nobile), and it's been almost a year since he last paid a visit to his mother, Norma (Norma Aleandro), who is battling Alzheimer's in a retirement home.

Rafael has a girlfriend, Naty (Natalia Verbeke), but after a long day of work and dealing with his father, she finds he rarely wants to do anything but watch old reruns on television. With Norma's health declining, Nino decides that he wants to renew their wedding vows and give his wife the nice church service he couldn't afford when he was younger; however, arranging the affair turns out to be far more complicated than either Rafael or Nino imagined, and the circumstances lead to some profound changes for father, son, and the rest of the family. El Hijo de la Novia was directed by Juan Jose Campanella, who in recent years has been dividing his time between helming feature films in his native Argentina and directing episodic television in America.

Source: All Movie Guide