FATHER'S LITTLE DIVIDEND

Stanley Banks and his wife Ellie find out that their daughter Kay, newly married, is now pregnant. Not ready to be a grandfather, Stanley keeps quiet while everyone else fawns over the mother-to-be. Ironically, his silence makes him the person Kay turns to the most for help.

In Father of the Bride, Spencer Tracy had his work cut out negotiating the comic chaos surrounding his daughter’s impending nuptials. The patter of tiny feet incites a new existential crisis for the curmudgeonly patriarch in this frolicsome sequel, spryly directed by the great Vincente Minnelli.