Review of After the Wedding

I liked this film for the most part because of the actors. Their motivations and reactions to situations left me stumped. Michelle's character reacts with such anger that Billy raised their child in a wonderful, caring, elite family was mystifying. The daughter's anger at learning the woman who gave her up and disappeared was still alive was also. Julianne's character at least had some logic to it. She was trying to find a good mother for her kids and partner for her husband, and also trying to heal them both. The kicker was when Michelle's character realizes that neither her daughter nor the orphan she cared for really needed her, after she had thought of herself as some savior saint. That said I can understand the hate given here by many. I think I felt most sorry for the groom!