Our Family Wedding (2010)

"...thanks to several appealing performances this rote exercise turns out better than most.  Marjorie Baumgarten, Austin Chronicle
"A breezy, uncomplicated, unapologetically broad comedy.  Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com

Editor's Note Forest Whitaker and Carlos Mencia headline this culture-clash comedy centered on the conflict between two headstrong fathers whose children are about to be married. With just two weeks to go before the big day, the disagreeable dads struggle to put aside their differences long enough to plan the perfect wedding. America Ferrera, Regina King, and Fred Armisen co-star.

	Regina King
	America Ferrera
	Carlos Mencia
	Lance Gross
	Forest Whitaker
	James Lesure - Co-Star
	Warren Sapp - Co-Star
	Shannyn Sossamon - Co-Star
	Diana-Maria Riva - Co-Star
	Hayley Marie Norman - Co-Star
	Vivek Shah - Co-Star
	Noel G - Co-Star
	Anjelah Johnson - Co-Star
	Skylan Brooks - Co-Star
	Joseph Mencia - Co-Star
	Matt Sauter - Co-Star
	Paul Costa - Co-Star
	Joaquin Pastor - Co-Star
	Jacqueline Mazarella - Co-Star
	Gordon E. James - Co-Star
	Gina Rodriguez - Co-Star
	Gabriel G. Alvarez - Co-Star
	Mimi Michaels - Co-Star
	Fred Armisen - Co-Star
	Joseph Vassallo - Co-Star
	Alejandro Patino - Co-Star
	Shondrella Avery - Co-Star
	Charles Grisham - Co-Star
	Sterling D. Ardrey - Co-Star
	Tonita Castro - Co-Star
	Carlee Avers - Co-Star
	Charlie Murphy - Co-Star
	Lupe Ontiveros - Co-Star
	Sy Richardson - Co-Star
	Brett A. Jones - Stunt Coordinator
	Julio Macat - Director of Photography
	Pauletta Lewis-Irwin - Hairstylist
	Barry Cole - Music Director
	Rick Famuyiwa - Screenwriter
	Scott Rogers - Stunt Coordinator
	Beverly Jo Pryor - Makeup
	Franklin Vallette - Assistant Director
	Jenny Hinkey - Production Manager/UPM
	Wayne Conley - Story
	Wayne Conley - Screenwriter
	Debra Denson - Makeup Designer
	Natasha Allegro - Hairstylist
	Handmade Digital Incorporated - Visual Effects Designer
	Transcenders - Composer
	Malcolm Spellman - Screenwriter
	Eddie Garcia - Choreographer
	Gia Marie Grosso - Set Decorator
	Caroline Aaron - Co-Star
	Castulo Guerra - Co-Star
	Anna Maria Horsford - Co-Star
	Ella Joyce - Co-Star
	Rick Famuyiwa - Director

Hollywood Reporter
"[T]here's a sweetness to the silliness that's likely to find a warm welcome..." 03/03/2010

Boston Globe 6 of 10
Our Family Wedding is another Hollywood fast-food sandwich. But instead of two squirts of ketchup someone actually took the time to lay some fresh tomato on that greasy bun. The movie tricks out the Guess Who's Coming to Dinner formula for a hyperrracial, upper-middle class 21st-century Los Angeles. Lucia and Marcus (America Ferrera and Lance Gross) have come home from New York to tell their families they're engaged. Will her folks freak out because he's black? Will his father have a fit because she's a Chicana? Honestly, who cares...The movie doesn't. The racial barriers are strictly procedural. Hours before they meet at a dinner, Lucia's dad (Carlos Mencia) tows the illegally parked car of Marcus's father (Forest Whitaker). They take umbrage via racial shorthand -- "I'm not your bro'' -- and it's not terribly sincere. At some point the men go for tuxedo fittings, and when Whitaker gets a load of Mencia's spiffy alabaster number, he almost has a tantrum: How come he gets the white one?...I like the way this movie tries to escape the box it's been crammed in both by the filmmakers and the studio marketing department. When its characters are actually connecting with each other, Our Family Wedding feels authentic. The trouble is that Famuyiwa wastes a lot of time with pratfalls and slapstick. No movie needs Forest Whitaker being humped by a Viagra-crazed goat. It also could survive without the obligatory family sporting-event sequence (softball, this time) and the broad stereotypes that drown the later scenes...Famuyiwa doesn't work much (his last movie was 2002's buppie romantic comedy Brown Sugar). But he has a knack for the way people relate to each other. The affection here is true and, where blacks and Hispanics in the movies are concerned, distressingly rare. It would be exciting to see him use that warmth and joy to help pull romantic comedy out Hollywood's dumpster. - Wesley Morris