The Wedding Party is a 1969 American film farce created as a joint effort by Sarah Lawrence theater professor Wilford Leach, and two of his students, protégéBrian De Palma and Cynthia Munroe. It was bankrolled by Stanley Borden, owner of American Films, De Palma's mentor and employer, who allowed De Palma to produce the film on company time. Leach went on to a successful career as a Tony Award-winning theatre director, while De Palma continued as a well-known film director.
Plot
The film focuses on a soon-to-be groom and his interactions with various relatives of his fiancée and members of the wedding party prior to the ceremony at the family's estate on Shelter Island, New York.
The film was made in 1963, with the on-screen copyright year being 1966. However, owing to a legal dispute between De Palma and Borden over the rights to the film (Borden thought it was not ready for release, and De Palma insisted on final cut), the film was not released until 1969, after one of its supporting players, Robert De Niro, had begun to draw notice for his work in off-Broadway theatre and De Palma's 1968 release Greetings.
The Wedding Party was released on Blu-Ray by Arrow Films on December 11, 2018, as part of the De Niro And De Palma: The Early Films Blu-Ray set. The set also includes the films Greetings (1968) and Hi, Mom! (1970), which are both directed by De Palma and star De Niro.
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