12 minutes to destroy a marriage? This bride's wedding night goes OFF the rails.
Seconds after the wedding, a bride is stunned to learn that her new husband fudged nearly everything about his past, but his revelations force her to come clean about a few shocking secrets of her own.
Writing
Dialogue escalates from white lies to nuclear revelations flawlessly.
Acting
Westfeldt's controlled spiral from bridezilla to something darker.
Director
Timothy Michael Cooper
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Timothy Michael Cooper made this as a proof-of-concept for a feature that never materialized, leaving this deliciously compact nightmare as the definitive version.
The title 'Lemon' slang for a defective purchase — the film treats marriage as consumer fraud with escalating warranty disputes.
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