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SYNOPSIS:
Jean Rubin, a Women and Literature teacher at the community college,
has three months to plan her twenty something daughter Lara's
wedding to Gus, a young man from an extended Charleston family.
Laurence Duvall, owner of Fashionista, the Scottsdale society paper
that everyone reads, is harassing Jean. In his weekly column,
"RUMORS and innuendoes", Laurence known as The Mouth, attacks
anyone, including Jean, with sarcasm and venom. The wedding plans
proceed through a series of funny, smart e-mails between Jean and
her daughter. While the events unfold like a desert flower on
steroids, Jean manages a prissy florist who absconds with her
deposit, a bride who insists on wearing red shoes, the groom's
father's designer obsessed, sassy third wife, a
rabbi who leaves to start a casino, five Amazon blonde bridesmaids,
her paranoid elderly parents, and Philomena, the neurotic wedding
planner. Jean's husband, Maury, escapes the chaos
by watching interminable hours of the golf channel.
As Laurence's vitriolic diatribes accelerate, Jean receives support
from her two closest friends: April, a wealthy, gorgeous busybody,
and Glee, a plastic surgery slave addicted to therapy. April, a
neighbor of Laurence's, walks her Lhasa Apsos just to question
Carmen, his housekeeper. Glee finds solace in The Rock, a cult-like
group facilitated by a sex therapist who can't stay married.
Days before the wedding, with family members converging, Laurence is
found dead. No one is upset and everyone is a suspect. The police
question Jean and her friends. Is the killer Coleman, Laurence's
love puppy, who stands to inherit a house full of antiques and
millions of dollars? Or is it one of the nouveau riche types The
Mouth slimed in his column?
It all comes to a rollicking conclusion amidst the elaborate
rehearsal dinner, the even more posh wedding with the murderer's
arrest. |
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