The Groomsmen
Blue-collar Paulie prepares for fatherhood and his forthcoming wedding to Sue by hanging out with his groomsmen. A week before the big day, he and his four attendants wrestle with issues related to friendship and maturity.
10 November 1977, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
9 August 1976, Columbia, Missouri, USA
22 July 1964, Bogotá, Colombia
27 February 1966, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
7 April 1975, Chicago, Illinois, USA
23 August 1970, Verona, New Jersey, USA
18 November 1944, Suffolk County, New York, USA
August 21, 1962 in Port Chester, New York, USA
April 22, 2009
Writer/director Ed Burns adds a droopy fourth chapter to his Irish-American working class films...
September 21, 2006
A standard big-weekend-where- friends-gather-and- everyone-has- a-secret movie.
August 10, 2006
The Groomsmen may be low-cal Cassavetes or Secrets and Lies for mooks, but Burns knows his turf. The marvel is that after seven films he's still finding fresh grass.
August 19, 2006
Its realistic portrayal of an almost extinct small-town dynamic between friends and family is not to be missed.
July 14, 2006
The problem is that Burns -- who insists on writing all his own material -- isn't a very good writer.
August 25, 2006
Traffics in such familiar territory as sibling rivalries, generational estrangements and broken dreams. But it slowly, sometimes too slowly, connects with the viewer.
July 14, 2006
Instead of whimsy there's nastiness, and instead of promising newcomers there's a cluster of formerly hot actors gone cold.
July 26, 2006
In a film of minor ambition, [the characters are] all worthy company.
March 01, 2007
Secure in its indie identity and wholly entertaining, The Groomsmen deserves hordes of filmgoers seeking quality alternatives to the bigger summer pictures.
August 07, 2006
Ed Burns repeats himself in his familiar territory about people who are young and stupid.
August 25, 2006
This is the movie I believe Burns has been trying to make since The Brothers McMullen, 11 years ago.
August 23, 2006
It appears that as a filmmaker Burns is having as much difficulty maturing as his characters do.
