An otherwise all-star cast feels somewhat suffocated under Richard Linklater’s film interpretation of a New York Times Best Seller.
After the Wedding (2019), starring Michelle Williams, Billy Crudup, and Julianne Moore, is a remake of the 2006 Danish film by the same name, about a woman who travels from India to New York in search of funds for her orphanage.
While Frank Langella shines in this indie, the rest of the film can’t seem to find its footing and is more underwhelming than anything else.
In the early 1970s, Stanford University Professor Phillip Zimbardo gathered twenty-four university students, split them up half and half as either guards or prisoners, and placed them in a makeshift prison in the basement of one of Stanford’s academic buildings.