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Widescreen format [aspect ratio: 1.85:1]; Interactive menus; Scene selection; Original theatrical trailer; Languages: English Dolby Surround; Subtitles: English, Spanish
Full Product DetailsSide #1 -- Polish Wedding
0. Scene Selection
1. Main titles [2:53]
2. The Pzoniak Family [2:12]
3. Sensitive Creatures [5:24]
4. The Other Man [3:24]
5. The Family Friend [2:42]
6. Hala's Guard [1:22]
7. The Virgin Queen [1:50]
8. In a Family Way [6:25]
9. A Reason to Marry [6:11]
10. Waiting Like Dogs [6:10]
11. My Clock Stopped [3:46]
12. A Baby [3:00]
13. To Be Complete [1:03]
14. To the First Baby... [4:28]
15. Business with Russell [5:56]
16. Smoking in the Basement [3:04]
17. A Cleaning Woman [4:09]
18. The Pzoniak Posse [2:17]
19. What Have You Done To Me? [4:56]
20. Making Up [4:13]
21. The Festival [6:12]
22. The Pregnant Virgin [2:08]
23. One Year Later [2:15]
24. End titles [5:03]
Theresa Connelly makes her directorial debut with her own screenplay, a semi-autobiographical romantic comedy-drama, set in working-class Detroit, about a large Polish-American family run by matriarch Jadzia Pzoniak (Lena Olin). Her four boys obey her, but adolescent Hala (Claire Danes) is rebellious and independent. Although happily married to bakery worker Bolek (Gabriel Byrne), Jadzia engages in an almost-open affair with Roman (Rade Serbedzija). Hala sneaks off for late-night trysts with her handsome neighbor Russell Schuster (Adam Trese), resulting in her pregnancy. After her parents learn the news, Russell is forced to marry Hala, and a big Polish wedding is planned. Shown at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival. Bhob Stewart, All Movie Guide