Mr. Demme’s updated version, starring Denzel Washington, Meryl Streep and Liev Schreiber, takes place during the Persian Gulf war. Mr. Demme may be best remembered for two films from the 1990s that were, at the time, his career’s biggest anomalies. “Music was my first love, movies came second,” Mr. Demme once told the long-defunct New York newspaper The SoHo News. Mr. Demme and Ms. Hawn clashed over the film’s editing, and the result was a movie generally seen as unsatisfying. Among the wedding guests are several character actors who make appearances in other Demme films, so there’s a family within a family on the screen.

Source: New York Times April 26, 2017 16:39 UTC