The Wedding Dress

This movie is in the fine tradition of a good Hallmark Hall of Fame movie...though it was produced by CBS not Hallmark. I'm a sucker for a good love story, and this one did it for me...with a box of kleenex being required to make it through the ending. If you're not one who likes to pay attention to a whole movie, then don't bother with this one, cause the story keeps changing, each segment following the journey of a wedding dress and the lives it touches, and changes forever. The only thing that disappointed me about this movie is that I did not tape it when it was on.

This movie does have many stories in them, but I found it interesting how they dovetail together. It is a movie well worth watching. Tyne Daley has certainly handed down her acting skill to her daughter (especially when she plays her own daughter). I enjoyed it and found myself "feeling good" when it ended. I watch for enjoyment, not necessarily for reality.

I happened to turn on the TV the other night and catch this gem of a movie. While it's outline may seem overly sentimental they manage to pull it off. With a solid performance by a couple of American TV-stables this movie succeeds in the difficult (and very misused) genre of romantic comedy. The plot weaves effortlessly between the different characters never spending too much time in one place and, thankfully, never overemphasizing the atmosphere. While not likely to win the Golden Palms this is certainly a worthwhile movie, so if you happen to catch it, don't change channels, it beats Jay Leno any day!

I was watching TV, when my zapping took me to this movie.The pivot of the story is a wedding dress, that could not be worn, because the bridegroom died right before the wedding day. The dress was forgotten of, only to 'reappear' many years later, when many stories start rotating around its reappearance. Narration is simple, but smooth and delightful. Acting is pleasant and casting well chosen. I saw only a bit of it at the beginning, then I moved to another channel. I turned to it again later before switching my TV off. Now I regret not having seen it thoroughly. No comments and no date were written in my TV magazine, therefore it was hard for me to make up my mind; furthermore actors are not well-known outside the USA; I am asking myself why the movie was so underestimated. No trash, no vulgar dialogs, no gruesome passages: without these ingredients a movie is not a movie?

This was a Hallmarky TV movie that would have been a tepid time waster but for the sweet shine of Kathryne Dora Brown as Zoey. I loved the beginning of the movie and I marked time to the end, hopeful that she would reappear.

It didn't occur to me until almost the end of the movie that she might be Tyne Daly's real daughter but when I saw the resemblance to Daly and Georg Brown, I was surprised I hadn't known all along. I have to say that this is one "child of" who could easily make it on talent without connections.