There hasn't been so much flimsy fun spun round a film marriage since Bette Davis's Wedding Breakfast. Alan Alda is the harassed father, set to stage a grand affair for daughter Molly Ringwald, even though all she wants is a quiet wedding at the registry office. Strange man, Alda: he has wild dreams which end with him wrestling with, or trying to throttle his hapless wife (Madeline Kahn). But then his whole family, a traditional American mix of Jews and Italians, is a little mad. Ringwald is at fashion design college and wears clothes that make her look, as her future in-laws term it, 'like an explosion in a dress factory'. Second daughter Ally Sheedy is a cop. 'So glad you brought your gun,' remarks mother. 'You never know who's going to break in.' She falls for the dim gangster offspring (Murder One's Anthony LaPaglia) of daddy's shady business associate (Burt Young). There's lots of gently wisecracking dialogue, courtesy Alda himself, before Betsy is finally married off in a second-class tent (provided by Young) that is rapidly succumbing to a rainstorm of tropical proportions.

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