Kristin Scott Thomas makes her directorial debut with 'My Mother’s Wedding'

LOS ANGELES — In making “My Mother’s Wedding,” Academy Award nominee Kristin Scott Thomas said she set out to draw upon a career that has spanned from the worlds Racine and Chekhov to the charm of Richard Curtis and the emotional depth of Anthony Minghella.

“My Mother’s Wedding” is a heartfelt story centering on three sisters coming together … on, you guessed it… their mother’s wedding — her third wedding after being twice-widowed. As the family gathers over a weekend to celebrate, mother and daughters revisit their past and confront the future.

“It’s [the film] a little slice of life in a family full of women,” Thomas told Spectrum News. “People who don’t have sisters should go and find out what it is like to have sisters, and people who do have sisters will recognize an awful lot of wh