Rachel Getting Married (2008)

Anne Hathaway fully deserved her Oscar nom for this performance. She perfectly captured the essence of her character, a young girl getting out of rehab just in time for her sister's wedding. When sparks fly, it happens believably. It's well acted and well written... but then the last half of the film happens. A good chunk of the final 45 minutes is an extended wedding dance scene (why was this important to the plot again? Or the characters? Or the setting?) and then a bizarre anticlimactic ending. The climax of this movie happens an hour and fifteen minutes in, and then nothing happens for the last 45 minutes. So... the first half is well worth watching. The second half is a disappointment. 3 stars.