After The Wedding (2019)

The co-founder (Michelle Williams) of an orphanage in India, which is in dire need of funds, travels to New York to meet with the wealthy CEO (Julianne Moore) of a major company with the hopes she will make a sizable donation to the orphanage. While the benefactor won't commit right away, she invites the visitor to be a guest at her daughter's wedding. It is there that she meets the woman's husband (Billy Crudup) whom she had known in her youth and with whom she shares a dark secret. A remake of the 2006 Oscar nominated Danish film which was nominated for a foreign language film Oscar and directed by Bart Freundlich. The film makes a gender switch for the three leads. In the Danish films, the Moore and Williams roles were male and the Crudup role was female. I haven't seen the Danish original but despite some good acting, this film seems contrived and overly convoluted. It's so obvious where the movie is going and I was hoping I was wrong but it goes exactly where you think it's going. Normally, I have zero problems with downer movies but this one can't seem to find a heartbeat. Crudup is fine but he can't match the dynamic duo of Williams and Moore. With Abby Quinn and Will Chase.