WRITER/director Justin Zackham cribbed this staccato confection of clichés from a 2006 French film.

It observes the shenanigans as a divorced couple prepares to host the wedding of their adopted son from Colombia. Their biological son is single. Their newly-pregnant biological daughter has left her husband.

Robert de Niro and Diane Keaton waltz with ease through the story’s collection of ups and downs, not the least of which is the need to conceal from the groom’s straight-laced mother that he has, since the divorce, made an extra-marital relationship with the caterer (Susan Sarandon) who must perforce allow her predecessor to resume marital bedroom privileges.

For me, this antidote to more serious stuff (see above) caused me to do something that I have done at few American movies billed as comedies. I laughed. Quite a lot.

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