Polish Wedding
Polish Wedding is a 1998 American comedydrama film written and directed by Theresa Connelly and is also a thenunknown Kristen Bells film debut in her uncredited role. It was screened at the Sundance Film Festival on January 16, 1998 and Berlin International Film Festival on February 12. It was released in the U.S. on July 17. It takes place within the Polish American community of Hamtramck, Michigan the girlhood home of director Theresa Connelly at some time between the 1950s and 1970s. Virtually all characters are Polish Americans, though the actors playing them are mostly of other ethnic origins.
Members of the Polish American communitywho? have pointed out that the film presents correct aspects of Polish culture. Connelly has in the course of her life also used the name Theresa Panek, which more clearly indicates her Polish origins. A Procession of the Virgin and selection of an actual virgin to lead it does not happen in the Polish Roman Catholic Church, but the procession in the movie bears many similarities to the May Crowning tradition in the Roman Catholic Church.
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