Cheerful Weather for the Wedding is a 2012 British comedy-drama film, directed by Donald Rice and starring Felicity Jones, Luke Treadaway, and Elizabeth McGovern. Adapted from the 1932 novella Cheerful Weather for the Wedding by Julia Strachey of the Bloomsbury Group, the film is about a young woman on her wedding day who worries that she's about to marry the wrong man, while both her fiancé and her former lover grow increasingly anxious about the event. The film premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival on 20 April 2012.

Plot

Today is Dolly's (Felicity Jones) wedding day, and her family is arriving at the manor house with all the cheerfulness, chaos and petty grievances that bubble to the surface at such gatherings. Trouble soon appears with the arrival of Joseph (Luke Treadaway), Dolly's lover from the previous summer, who throws her feelings into turmoil. To her mother's (Elizabeth McGovern) exasperation, his presence threatens to upset the design she had for her daughter's future. Dolly, for her part, just can't decide whether to run away with Joseph or start a new life in Argentina with her husband to be.

Cheerful Weather for the Wedding (film)

Cast

Felicity Jones as Dolly Thatcham

Luke Treadaway as Joseph Patten

Elizabeth McGovern as Mrs. Thatcham

Mackenzie Crook as David Daken

Fenella Woolgar as Nancy Daken

Eva Traynor as Annie

Zoe Tapper as Evelyn Graham

Paola Dionisotti as Mrs. Whitstable

James Norton as Owen

Sophie Stanton as Millman

Elizabeth Webster as Betty

Kenneth Collard as Whitstable

Ellie Kendrick as Kitty Thatcham

Ben Greaves-Neil as Jimmy Daken

Luke Ward-Wilkinson as Robert

Olly Alexander as Tom

Joanna Hole as Miss Spoon

John Standing as Horace Spigott

References

External links

Movie trailer

2012 films

British comedy-drama films

Films based on British novels

2012 comedy-drama films

2010s English-language films

2010s British films

Cheerful Weather for the Wedding (film)