{"id":13101,"date":"2008-09-16T12:49:34","date_gmt":"2008-09-16T18:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/\/?p=652"},"modified":"2008-09-16T12:49:34","modified_gmt":"2008-09-16T18:49:34","slug":"second-hand-wedding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/second-hand-wedding\/","title":{"rendered":"Second Hand Wedding"},"content":{"rendered":"

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My favorite film this trip was the delightful and heartwarming Second Hand Wedding<\/strong>.\u00a0 It’s everything one would want in comedy.\u00a0 Laughter, tears, deep true human feeling and outstanding performances.<\/p>\n

The film is set and filmed on the Kapiti Coast of New Zealand.\u00a0 School principal and devoted mum, Jill Rose (Geraldine Brophy) fanatically hunts down garage sales every Saturday morning.\u00a0 Bargains fill her house to the brim. She is obsessive, over-bearing and extremely warm-hearted, a larger-than-life Power of Love character.<\/p>\n

When Jill’s daughter, teacher Cheryl (Holly Shanahan), finally accepts a marriage proposal from her long-time car mechanic boyfriend Stew (Ryan O\u2019Kane) she’s afraid to tell her mum.\u00a0 Cheryl has avoided marriage because she’s afraid Jill will turn her wedding into a tacky bargain basement affair.\u00a0 Cheryl is a Power of Ambition character, whose most intense childhood memories are the humilations she suffered at never having anything new or trendy like the popular kids.\u00a0 Her mum always dressed her in off-beat garage sale finds.<\/p>\n

Cheryl does confide in her patient and accepting dad Brian (Patrick Wilson).\u00a0 He is a retired security guard who is a Power of Imagination tinkerer.\u00a0 His dream is rebuilding a Model T Ford in his garage.\u00a0 He dotes on Jill accomodates her mania for buying junk.\u00a0 He does keeps Cheryl’s secret, however.<\/p>\n

Gracie (Vivien Bell), is a fellow teacher who missed out on the principal\u2019s job when Jill was selected.\u00a0 She is a vengeful Power of Conscience charater who spitefully reveals that Cheryl is engaged.\u00a0 Jill is shocked to hear the news.\u00a0 She is further devastated when Gracie gleefully discloses that Cheryl is too embarrassed by Jill’s mania for bargains to include Jill in the wedding plans.<\/p>\n

Jill absorbs this brutal truth with heartbreaking misery.\u00a0 She backs off and doesn’t interfere.\u00a0 Meanwhile, Cheryl and Stew sign up for a wedding reception at a fancy but pretentious wedding hall.\u00a0 They mistakenly think the $6000 they have paid is the full cost.\u00a0 They are shocked to discover the total is actually $24,000, a sum don’t have any hope of raising.<\/p>\n

The hall manager, Daniela (Gentiane Lupi), is a deliciously nasty (Power of Will) executive who gets a fantastic come-uppance by Jill.\u00a0 Cherly is tearfully grateful and comes to her mum for further help.\u00a0 Jill saves the day and pulls off the wedding reception with her daughter’s blessing.<\/p>\n

NOTE TO BROADCASTERS:\u00a0 This family would make a wonderful engaging sit-com series!<\/p>\n

Second Hand Wedding<\/strong> is a bon-bon and a delight.\u00a0 See if you can find it on Netflix.\u00a0 It’s well worth the watch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As a frequent flyer on Air New Zealand I have the opportunity to see regional films that don’t ever make it to the US in wide distribution. My favorite film this trip was the delightful and heartwarming Second Hand Wedding. It’s everything one would want in comedy. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11959,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"nf_dc_page":"","_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[494,27,28,30,32,33,580,37,39,40,581,41],"class_list":["post-13101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movies-character-development-screenwriting-screenplay-script-blog","tag-character-types","tag-emotional-toolbox","tag-etb","tag-film","tag-laurie-hutzler","tag-movies","tag-new-zealand","tag-screenwriting","tag-scripts","tag-scriptwriting","tag-second-hand-wedding","tag-tv"],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/30710870_10211699141895539_4496568718662303744_n.jpg",960,720,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/30710870_10211699141895539_4496568718662303744_n-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/30710870_10211699141895539_4496568718662303744_n-300x225.jpg",300,225,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/30710870_10211699141895539_4496568718662303744_n-768x576.jpg",768,576,true],"large":["https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/30710870_10211699141895539_4496568718662303744_n.jpg",960,720,false],"ttshowcase_normal":["https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/30710870_10211699141895539_4496568718662303744_n.jpg",125,94,false],"ttshowcase_small":["https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/30710870_10211699141895539_4496568718662303744_n.jpg",75,56,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/30710870_10211699141895539_4496568718662303744_n.jpg",960,720,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/30710870_10211699141895539_4496568718662303744_n.jpg",960,720,false],"Image Size 500x500":["https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/30710870_10211699141895539_4496568718662303744_n.jpg",500,375,false],"woocommerce_thumbnail":["https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/30710870_10211699141895539_4496568718662303744_n-300x400.jpg",300,400,true],"woocommerce_single":["https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/30710870_10211699141895539_4496568718662303744_n-600x450.jpg",600,450,true],"woocommerce_gallery_thumbnail":["https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/30710870_10211699141895539_4496568718662303744_n-100x100.jpg",100,100,true]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Laurie Hutzler","author_link":"https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/author\/admin\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"As a frequent flyer on Air New Zealand I have the opportunity to see regional films that don't ever make it to the US in wide distribution. My favorite film this trip was the delightful and heartwarming Second Hand Wedding. It's everything one would want in comedy.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13101"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}