This week’s “My Mother’s Wedding” stars Kristin Scott Thomas alongside Scarlett Johansson, Sienna Miller and Emily Beecham in a semi-autobiographical mother-daughter story that also serves as this British Dame’s directing debut.

The film begins on the eve of the third wedding for the twice-widowed Diana (Scott Thomas) who must combat her three daughters’ resistance to her impending nuptials. Diana’s first husband, the father of the girls, was a Royal Navy air pilot who died in a flying accident when they were young. She married his best friend, also a Royal Navy air pilot, who also died in a flying accident.

In reality, Scott Thomas was five when her Royal Navy pilot father Simon Scott Thomas died in a flying accident. When she was 12 her stepfather Simon Idiens, also a Royal Navy air pi

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