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Released
1990 · FILM

Betsy's Wedding

The wedding picture doesn't always tell the real story.

Directed by
Written by
Runtime
94 min
ComedyRomance

Synopsis

Betsy Hopper, an offbeat fashion student, and her fiancé Jake Lovell, a straight‑laced investment banker, plan only an intimate wedding reception. Betsy's father Eddie, a Long Island construction contractor, feels threatened by Jake's affluent WASP parents and expands the ceremony into an extravagant event that strains the budget, causing his wife Lola to experience a financial panic.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 18

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Michael E PolakowShot by Kelvin PikeScored by Bruce BroughtonDesigned by John Jay Moore

Box Office

1990 · Box office

Grossed $19.7M worldwide

Worldwide gross

$19.7M

Worldwide gross$19.7M

Opening weekend: $4.7M 24% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $6.9M35% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,048 theaters

Also known as

  • Familienehrede
  • Boda pasada por aguaes
  • Le Mariage de Betsyfr
  • Il matrimonio di Betsyit

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