Film: After the Wedding [] Teatro Santa Ana at La Biblioteca

Film: After the Wedding

Tue, Apr 27, 1pm

Teatro Santa Ana
Reloj 50

$70pesos

Isabel Andersen, co-founder of an orphanage in India, must travel to New York to meet a potential benefactor, milionaire CEO Theresa Young. Isabel is unwilling to travel due to her responsibilities at the orphanage and because she does not want to leave Jai,(Vir Pachisia) a boy whom she raised who she found on the street when he was at age 1.He is the closest child in the orphanage to Isabel, and doesn’t want Isabel to leave,but Theresa insists on an in-person meeting. Reluctantly, Isabel agrees and goes to the meeting, which takes place the day before the wedding of Theresa’s daughter Grace. Theresa invites Isabel to the wedding as a courtesy and Isabel feels obliged to attend.

At the wedding, Isabel is surprised to see Theresa’s husband is her teenage sweetheart Oscar Carlson, now a renowned visual artist. During Grace’s wedding toast, she discovers that Grace is not Theresa’s biological daughter, but is Oscar’s. Isabel soon realizes that Grace is in fact her own daughter by Oscar, whom they had given up for adoption as teenagers. Isabel returns to the house the day after the wedding to confront Oscar and learns that after giving the baby up for adoption, he changed his mind within the 30-day grace period and reclaimed the infant Grace without informing her. Isabel then forces Oscar and Theresa to also inform Grace, who had always been told her biological mother had died.

Theresa encourages Isabel to get to know Grace and reconnect with Oscar, and eventually decides to dramatically increase her donation to the orphanage, thereby forcing Isabel to extend her stay in New York. Eventually, Theresa makes her donation, as well as a newly established fund in Isabel and Grace’s name, contingent on Isabel moving to New York permanently.

Mistrustful of Theresa’s real motives, Isabel angrily confronts her and learns that Theresa is dying. Theresa admits she has known about Isabel’s link to Oscar and Grace all along and arranged the whole charade to install Isabel as a new mother figure to both Grace and Theresa’s own eight-year-old twin boys. Oscar discovers his wife’s illness around the same time and eventually tells Grace, who is already struggling with doubts about her recent marriage and the news that Isabel is her biological mother.

Theresa dies soon after and the family scatter her ashes. Isabel then returns to India for a visit to the orphanage and Jai. The movie ends with Jai and his friends playing football in the orphanage.