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Released
2013 · FILM

The Big Wedding

Divorced parents Don and Ellie must convincingly reunite for their adopted son’s wedding when his ultra‑conservative biological mother shows up, forcing them to juggle a fake romance while confronting old wounds before the ceremony falls apart.

“It's never too late to start acting like a family.”

Directed by
Justin Zackham
Written by
Justin Zackham, Jean Stephane Bron
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
90 min
ComedyDramaRomance
Streaming on
  • Prime Video

Synopsis

To the amusement of their adult children and friends, long-divorced couple Don and Ellie Griffin are forced to play the happy couple for the sake of their adopted son's wedding after his ultra-conservative Catholic biological mother unexpectedly decides to fly halfway across the world to attend. With all of the wedding guests looking on, the Griffins are hilariously forced to confront their past, present, and future—and hopefully avoid killing each other in the process.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 23

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 Jonathan CornShot by Jonathan BrownScored by Nathan BarrDesigned by Andrew Jackness

Box Office

2013 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.6× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$21.8M

Budget$35.0M
Worldwide gross$21.8M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $7.6M — 35% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $10.3M — 47% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 2,633 theaters

Also known as

  • Big Weddingde
  • La gran bodaes
  • Un grand mariagefr

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