Cheerful Weather for the Wedding (film)

2012 British film

Donald Rice
Mary Henely-Magill

Based onCheerful Weather for the Wedding
by Julia StracheyProduced byTeun HilteStarring

Felicity Jones
Luke Treadaway
Elizabeth McGovern

CinematographyJohn LeeEdited byStephen HarenMusic byMichael Price

Production
companies

Goldcrest Films^[1]
Yellow Knife^[1]
BFI^[1]

Distributed byUniversal Pictures

Release date

20 April 2012 (2012-04-20) (Tribeca)

Running time

93 minutesCountryUnited KingdomLanguageEnglishBox office$170,922

Cheerful Weather for the Wedding is a 2012 British comedy-drama film, directed by Donald Rice and starring Felicity Jones, Luke Treadaway, and Elizabeth McGovern. Adapted from the 1932 novella Cheerful Weather for the Wedding by Julia Strachey of the Bloomsbury Group, the film is about a young woman on her wedding day who worries that she's about to marry the wrong man, while both her fiancé and her former lover grow increasingly anxious about the event. The film premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival on 20 April 2012.^[2]

Plot

Today is Dolly's (Felicity Jones) wedding day, and her family is arriving at the manor house with all the cheerfulness, chaos and petty grievances that bubble to the surface at such gatherings. Trouble soon appears with the arrival of Joseph (Luke Treadaway), Dolly's lover from the previous summer, who throws her feelings into turmoil. To her mother's (Elizabeth McGovern) exasperation, his presence threatens to upset the design she had for her daughter's future. Dolly, for her part, just can't decide whether to run away with Joseph or start a new life in Argentina with her husband to be.

Cast

Felicity Jones as Dolly Thatcham
Luke Treadaway as Joseph Patten
Elizabeth McGovern as Mrs. Thatcham
Mackenzie Crook as David Daken
Fenella Woolgar as Nancy Daken
Eva Traynor as Annie
Zoe Tapper as Evelyn Graham
Paola Dionisotti as Mrs. Whitstable
James Norton as Owen
Sophie Stanton as Millman
Elizabeth Webster as Betty
Kenneth Collard as Whitstable
Ellie Kendrick as Kitty Thatcham
Ben Greaves-Neil as Jimmy Daken
Luke Ward-Wilkinson as Robert
Olly Alexander as Tom
Joanna Hole as Miss Spoon
John Standing as Horace Spigott^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Adams, Mark (26 April 2012). "Cheerful Weather for the Wedding". Screen International. Retrieved 30 October 2023.
^ ^a ^b Holden, Stephan (2008). "Cheerful Weather For The Wedding (2012)". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Archived from the original on 1 February 2008. Retrieved 27 August 2013.