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Another Kind of Wedding

2018 Canadian film

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 18, 2026
Entity authorityQ113114774
Source-derived summary

Another Kind of Wedding (also titled Someone Else’s Wedding) is a 2017 Canadian comedy-drama film written and directed by Pat Kiely and starring Kathleen Turner, Kevin Zegers, Jessica Paré, Jacob Tierney, Jessica Parker Kennedy, Luke Kirby, Wallace Shawn and Frances Fisher.

Cast

Kevin Zegers as Kurt

Jessica Paré as Carrie

Kathleen Turner as Barbara

Jessica Parker Kennedy as Louisa

Wallace Shawn as Albert

Frances Fisher as Tammy

Luke Kirby as Misha

Jacob Tierney as Matthew

Production

Filming began in Montreal in December 2016.

Release

The film was released in theaters and on demand on May 11, 2018.

Reception

The film has a 60% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on five reviews.

Noel Murray of the Los Angeles Times gave the film a positive review and wrote, "At its best, Another Kind of Wedding understands how hard it can be for families to look past their own burdensome self-mythology, to see each other again as just people."

Tiffany Tchobanian of Film Threat awarded the film two and a half stars out of five.

Editorial summary

“Another Kind of Wedding” enters the record as 2018 Canadian film. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Another, Kind and Wedding can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2017, 2016, 2018—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Another, Kind and Wedding.
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Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 18, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q113114774. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2017, 2016 and 2018.

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This entry incorporates text from Another Kind of Wedding” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.