The father of a young woman deals with the emotional pain of her getting married, along with the financial and organizational trouble of arranging the wedding.The father of a young woman deals with the emotional pain of her getting married, along with the financial and organizational trouble of arranging the wedding.The father of a young woman deals with the emotional pain of her getting married, along with the financial and organizational trouble of arranging the wedding.
- Nominated for 3 Oscars
- 5 nominations total
- Tommy Banks
- (as Rusty Tamblyn)
- Moving Man with Screen
- (uncredited)
- Usher
- (uncredited)
- Man in Dream Sequence
- (uncredited)
- Miss Bellamy
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaSpencer Tracy wanted Katharine Hepburn for his screen wife, but it was felt that they were too romantic a team to play a happily domesticated couple with children, so Joan Bennett got the part.
- GoofsWhen the Banks are driving to meet Buckley's parents, Ellie says they are looking for the house numbered 394. When they get to the destination, the number on the house is 709.
- Quotes
Stanley T. Banks: Who giveth this woman? "This woman." But she's not a woman. She's still a child. And she's leaving us. What's it going to be like to come home and not find her? Not to hear her voice calling "Hi, Pops" as I come in? I suddenly realized what I was doing. I was giving up Kay. Something inside me began to hurt.
- ConnectionsEdited into Hollywood: The Dream Factory (1972)
Although the movie does play up the comic potential of the wedding situation - the dad dreams of losing his trousers as he walks down the aisle, for example - it also has moments of poignancy, especially in the last few sequences where the parents dance together in the post-party mess of their once-pristine house. This kind of thing puts the movie above the ordinary, and is exactly what was missing in the Steve Martin remake years later.
And don't let me forget Billie Burke and Moroni Olsen as the groom's parents - really funny!
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- Gross US & Canada
- $8,838,592
- Runtime1 hour 32 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1