White Wedding is a South African romantic comedy

Romantic Comedy

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. It tells the story of a road trip adventure embarked by a groom and his best friend as they race across South Africa

South Africa

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 to attend a wedding.
This film was South Africa's official submission to the 82nd Academy Awards

82nd Academy Awards

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 for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

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White Wedding will be released in the U.S. on September 3, 2010 by Dada Films and The Little Film Company.

Plot

Elvis (Kenneth Nkosi) leaves Johannesburg Park Station for Durban

Durban

Durban is the largest city in the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal and the third largest city in South Africa. It forms part of the eThekwini metropolitan municipality. Durban is famous for being the busiest port in South Africa. It is also seen as one of the major centres of tourism...

 where his best friend, Tumi (Rapulana Seiphemo) will drive them to Cape Town

Cape Town

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 to attend his wedding to Ayanda (Zandile Msutwana). As fate has it, nothing goes according to plan as the two friends trek across the country, meeting eccentric characters along the way and all at Ayanda's expense who awaits nervously in Cape Town

Cape Town

Cape Town is the second-most populous city in South Africa, and the provincial capital and primate city of the Western Cape. As the seat of the National Parliament, it is also the legislative capital of the country. It forms part of the City of Cape Town metropolitan municipality...

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Cast

• Kenneth Nkosi as Elvis
• Rapulana Seiphemo as Tumi
• Zandile Msutwana as Ayanda
• Jodie Whittaker
  Jodie Whittaker
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   as Rose
• Mbulelo Grootboom as Tony

Reception

The film was both a moderate critical and commercial success in South Africa and it received mixed reviews internationally. Picktainment.com said, "What White Wedding lacks in exposition, it gains in its honest portrayal of a country still lacerated by racial differences." It grossed R

South African rand

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1.1 million in the box office in its first week of opening and had accumulted R4.2 million in a seven week run.