Review of The Wedding Plan

The main character is a twit, of course, but she learns in the process of the film and arrives where she should. By dumb luck or God's Providence? The Rabbi consulted early couldn't care less, he's concerned with her state of belief if she fails in her crackpot determination. Ask Job. The script -- and obviously, WATCH HER EYES EVERY MOMENT, the character -- is exploring that life-transforming decision all married people come to, who should she marry! She goes from a failure, a man who can tell her he doesn't love her, to at the end a man who abandons his own loveless marriage in order to marry her. God's will? Ask that well-meaning but doctrinaire Rabbi. What matters to us is that she attends every moment to her own feelings and her own desires, even her own misperceptions of those desires, and she's such a superb actress that we can too! Like a good Talmudic study, case by case through decision after decision and option after option, until the unexpected actually happens and proves itself. A film for the sentimental but also any highly perceptive intellectual -- it can satisfy both kinds. That it's the man's certainties that determine her fate and feelings at the beginning and at the end -- apparently -- is another issue I won't enter.