The Perfect Couple

Matt Roush says...

A lavish Nantucket wedding party becomes a crime scene in Emmy winner Susanne Bier’s enjoyably trashy and glossy adaptation of Elin Hilderbrand’s beach read, a fun post-Labor Day escape. Nicole Kidman swans around as the groom’s (Billy Howle) mother, a famous mystery novelist whose idea of security is forcing the outsider bride-to-be (Bad Sisters’ Eve Hewson) to sign an NDA. The festivities go awry when a body washes up on the beach, spoiling the “I do’s” as an investigation of the privileged toxic rich gets underway. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’s Donna Lynne Champlin nearly steals the show as the unimpressed detective poking into their messy lives. The supporting cast includes Dakota Fanning, Meghann Fahy (The White Lotus) as the flirty maid of honor and Liev Schreiber as the groom’s cad of a dad.

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