It stars Nicole Kidman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jack Black, John Turturro, and Ciarán Hinds.

The film is about the familial storm that arises when Margot, a writer, comes to visit her sister Pauline on the eve of the latter's wedding.

She brings her 11-year-old son Claude to spend a weekend visiting her free-spirited sister Pauline on the eve of the latter's wedding to Malcolm at their home on Long Island, New York.

While in town, Margot is interviewed in public in a local bookstore by Dick Koosman, a successful author with whom she is collaborating on a screenplay.

After the car runs off the road due to malfunctioning brakes, Pauline defecates in her skirt and removes her soiled underwear.

[3] During filming, Kidman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Zane Pais, and Jack Black lived in a house together in order to perfect the roles of a dysfunctional family.

The website's critics consensus reads, "Despite a great cast, the characters in Margot at the Wedding are too unlikable to enthrall viewers.

"[9] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 66 out of 100, based on 37 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews.

Margot at the Wedding, less sharply focused than its predecessor, explores similar territory in an equally allusive and indirect way.

"[11] Todd McCarthy of Variety wrote, "Kidman is the rawest as the most dangerously neurotic and manipulative of the bunch, Leigh the most prone to mood swings, while Black, whose character is not yet a family insider – more luck to him – works in a mode of emotional opaqueness that itself may mask the man's intense neuroses.