Paul is also in a relationship with the unpleasant Dominic (out actor Karan Soni), who spends much of the movie trying to convince Paul to have a three-way. Goulding (Tony Goldwyn) has been avoiding Donna for years because he's been led to believe that she disapproves of him being gay. Paul, who works at a therapy center run by self-help guru Dr. Now a widower living in Indianapolis, Donna has a strained relationship with Alice, an architect who works as an assistant (and side piece) to married tech wizard Jonathan (Jorma Taccone). The wedding is that of Eloise (Cynthia Addai-Robinson), Donna's daughter from her first marriage to serial cheater Henrique (Isaach De Bankolé). The hated people of the title are the three lead characters mother Donna (Allison Janney, whose comedic gifts are wasted here), daughter Alice (Kristen Bell), and gay son Paul (out actor Ben Platt). One thing that can be said with certainty is that it's a comedy lacking in laughs, unless you consider vomit to be funny. Not having read the book, it's difficult to say how faithful Wendy Molyneux and Lizzie Molyneux-Longlin's adapted screenplay is to the source material. Based on the novel by gay writer Grant Ginder, the best way to describe the painfully unfunny movie version of "The People We Hate at the Wedding" is to say that it's one of those movies that makes you feel less horrible about your own family.
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