Film: You’re cordially invited  (Amazon Prime)
Cast: Reese Witherspoon, Will Ferrell, Geraldine Viswanathan, Meredith
Hagner, Celia Weston, Jimmy Tatro, Keyla Monterroso Mejia, Leanne
Morgan
Director: Nicholas Stoller
Rating: 2/5
Runtime: 109 min

Writer/Director Nicholas Stoller’s “You’re Cordially Invited” is a rehashed comedy for the most part, but there’s a modicum of warmth to make it just about bearable.

Jim (Ferrell), a widower whose only daughter Jenni (Geraldine Viswanathan) tells him that she has gotten engaged to her boyfriend Oliver (Stoney Blyden). Both are very young and for Jim whose life has revolved mainly around Jenni since her mother died, makes a big hoo-ha over the unexpected engagement. Finally he succumbs to emotion and agrees to sponsor the wedding which is to happen at Palmetto House, a venue on a tiny, remote island where Jim wed Jenni’s mother decades earlier.