Polish Wedding (1998) on Netflix
PG-1319981h 45mComedyDramaRomance
Jadzia runs a Polish American household in Hamtramck: five children, a baker husband, a secret lover. Her daughter Hala is pregnant by a neighborhood police officer, who is pressed to marry her.
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Plot summary
Jadzia is the matriarch of a Polish American family in Hamtramck, Michigan, with five children, four of them sons. Her eldest, Ziggy, is married to Sofie, a Syrian American who cleans houses alongside Jadzia, and the couple has a baby at home. Jadzia married Bolek, a baker, after becoming pregnant at fifteen; the marriage holds, but she also keeps a long-running secret relationship with Roman. Her only daughter, Hala, dropped out of high school and is expected to help around the house. Hala catches the eye of Russell Schuster, a neighborhood police officer who knows her brothers Kaz and Witek. The attraction is mutual, and when Hala becomes pregnant, the family presses Russell to marry her.
Cast
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Polish Wedding (1998)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Kristen Bell appears in the film in an uncredited role, and this obscure 1998 comedy-drama is actually her film debut.
- Writer-director Theresa Connelly set the film in the real Polish American community of Hamtramck, Michigan, because it was her own childhood hometown.
