A Very Sordid Wedding

A Very Sordid Wedding

Marriage. Family. Equality. Texas

Directed by Del Shores

Produced by Buffalo Gal Pictures, Beard Collins Shores Productions

2017109 min5.3 / 10

A comedic ensemble piece that uses small-town Texas politics and family dynamics to explore the collision between tradition and social progress around marriage equality.

Del Shores' follow-up to "Sordid Lives" revisits Winters, Texas for a showdown between the gradually liberalizing locals and the new fundamentalist preacher in the wake of the Supreme Court's marriage equality decision.

Questions people ask

  • Is A Very Sordid Wedding violent? Barely. Less violent than 76% of films.

  • Is A Very Sordid Wedding easy watching? Somewhat. More comforting than 71% of films.

  • Is A Very Sordid Wedding sad? Not especially. Less sad than 67% of films.

  • Is A Very Sordid Wedding scary? Not especially. Less frightening than 65% of films.

  • Does A Very Sordid Wedding end with hope? Somewhat. More hopeful than 62% of films.

These describe how the film comes across, measured across the whole film and compared with other well-known films. They are not a content list — nothing here was counted or checked scene by scene, so for age-suitability or specific content use a classification board or a dedicated content-warning service.

21/ 100

Cinnamon Score

How much this film gives you that nothing else will, and whether it delivers.

Conventional, and it does not land.

Rarity88

How unlike any other film this one feels

Surprise5

How much more it delivers than it promises

Love5

How much audiences actually like it

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Like A Very Sordid Wedding

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Same Mood as A Very Sordid Wedding

Nearest on what's most distinctive about this one.

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Similar, pushed toward heavier and more intense.

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Similar, pushed toward warmer and easier.

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Same territory, far fewer people have seen it.

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