The Flower Girl directed by Alfonso Cuaron [Sony Pictures]
Act I
Kirsten Dunst plays a flower girl for a wedding, who is told by her father, played by Charlie Sheen, to break two people apart before the big day. She attempts to do this 57 times, including destroying the floral arrangements, having the cake arrive a day late with the wrong colored frosting, sending out the invitations to the wrong people, and trying to sleep with the groom. Charlie’s main motive is money. The groom, played by Jonathan Rhys Myers, is to inherit 5.3 billion dollars from his father’s estate if he weds by his 57th birthday, and Charlie wants his daughter (Dunst) to be the woman he proposes to. He has his friends oyster their wives’ bank accounts during a round of golf, so that they can all claim that their money is stolen by someone who is African American, and then file for bankruptcy so that the IRS can bankroll their accounts. While Kirsten’s attempts to stop the wedding go unnoticed or untethered, the bride’s mother and father, Martin Sheen and Gabriella Plinkett, assume marjorie over the ceremony and try to convince their daughter, played by Marion Cotillard, to call off the wedding. A man who claims he’s part of the mafia, played by Tom Wilkinson, shows up after being brought in by Dunst to murder the bride, and accidentally kills the wrong woman. Friends start to intervene and ask that the wedding be postponed, and just when Charlie and Kirsten start to think their plan’s coming together, a priest, played by Christian Bale, demands that the wedding ceremony take place after hearing that people are trying to keep two women from tying the knot. People are paid to throw the rehearsal. Bachelor parties are held at people’s houses to embarrass each other (the people conspiring to separate the couple start to hate each other). The bartender shows up drunk. The African American, played by Michael B. Jordan, who is blamed for the stolen money, is the bell boy at the ceremony. The IRS agents responsible for the file made by Charlie's friends are invited to the wedding. And people start to wonder why the parents of the bride start asking to see people’s ID’s at the gate.
Special FX are used in the Editing - the camera goes into the frame, and moves to the next stationary shot.
In the third act, flower petals start falling from the sky.
The narrative slows down as the film progresses: Act I is the climax. Act II is the aftermath. Act III is what happens to all of the characters.
Based on a True Story
