Writer-director Robert Altman aims his satiric gaze at the madness of matrimony in A Wedding (1978). Using Altman's signature techniques—a huge ensemble cast (there are forty-eight featured characters), overlapping dialogue, and an eye for the absurd—Altman assembles Carol Burnett, Lillian Gish, Lauren Hutton, and Desi Arnaz Jr. (among many others) as participants in a high society nuptial that rattles multiple skeletons in each … Become a Mr Skin Member and get the full review