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.
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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. For her part, Dolly just can't decide whether to run away with Joseph or to start a new life in Argentina with Owen (James Norton), the staid diplomat who is her husband to be.
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