The Wedding (1998)

Directors

Charles Burnett

Cast

Eric Thal, Halle Berry, Lynn Whitfield

The story

In 1953, Shelby Coles returns to Martha's Vineyard and the Coles family home, in a section of town known as 'The Oval', to wed her white fiancé, jazz pianist and composer Meade Howell. While her black high-society parents initially accept the pair, even arranging the wedding to be held at the mansion, they have growing misgivings as to the pair's ability to withstand the racial prejudice of the time, only made stronger after Meade admits that his own middle-class parents will not be attending the wedding because of their prejudice against their daughter-in-law-to-be. Through frequent flashbacks throughout, we see the racial, societal and…

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