Mary Chaffee

All the cliches about the lives of the spoiled rich are trotted out, relied on perhaps because the writers had no first-hand experience with real trust-find babies to draw on? Or maybe… to elicit in the viewer a sense of smug satisfaction: “I may not be rich, but I’m a better person than these entitled louts.” Likewise, the bride-to-be and her family are presented as more ‘genuine’ because less well off - just ordinary folks, gauche enough to wash a plate after using it (to the disdain of the family’s cartoonish housekeeper). The high point (if there was one) comes after a series of debacles and the obligatory murder, when Greer, the family matriarch and mainstay, declares that she is finished with the whole scene and decamps to London. And then, just when it was getting interesting, the movie ends.