"Catie's Mom Gets Married", a Modern Day AARP-crowd Cinderella story about a divorced former airline hostess who raises two lovely daughters, changes career paths, becomes a nurse, and finally relocates a source of love and acceptance, in her mid seventies, with a retired businessman and politician who's name appears on numerous pieces of historical legislation. Of course, any good movie has to include a conflict. Enter the daughter who wishes the marriage not take place at all, seemingly doing all she can to throw a spanner in the works. The groom, in the role of prince, is torn between his new love and his devotion to the actively dissenting daughter.
Can harmony be achieved? Does it have a happy ending? Can Catie's Mom somehow triumph, and win over the trust of the unhappy daughter? Or will the daughter succeed in stopping the wedding, can she turn the day into a trainwreck?
We pick up the story one week before the date of the wedding.
Like, right now.
This moment. Right here.
C's mom is scheduled to get married on Sunday next week. This is her story. Truly storybook, isn't it? The wedding hasn't even happened yet, and I have already christened this M-A's Cinderella Wedding. I can hardly wait to see how it all plays out. Oh, I"m SOO hoping for a triumph, but the train-wreck is threatening at every turn of events. It's a nail-biter of a story and great theater. If only it weren't real life... because real feelings could get hurt; real damage could be done.
All that more compelling, it is...in the movies we can generally expect a happy ending to a Cinderella story. Here, though, we can't guarantee the happy ending...
Mind if I borrow your fingernails? Mine are chewed to the quick.
Can harmony be achieved? Does it have a happy ending? Can Catie's Mom somehow triumph, and win over the trust of the unhappy daughter? Or will the daughter succeed in stopping the wedding, can she turn the day into a trainwreck?
We pick up the story one week before the date of the wedding.
Like, right now.
This moment. Right here.
C's mom is scheduled to get married on Sunday next week. This is her story. Truly storybook, isn't it? The wedding hasn't even happened yet, and I have already christened this M-A's Cinderella Wedding. I can hardly wait to see how it all plays out. Oh, I"m SOO hoping for a triumph, but the train-wreck is threatening at every turn of events. It's a nail-biter of a story and great theater. If only it weren't real life... because real feelings could get hurt; real damage could be done.
All that more compelling, it is...in the movies we can generally expect a happy ending to a Cinderella story. Here, though, we can't guarantee the happy ending...
Mind if I borrow your fingernails? Mine are chewed to the quick.
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