Black Tie

Set in an Adirondacks hotel on the eve of a wedding, this engaging comedy explores the subset of humanity that Mr. Gurney has been writing about with warmth and humor throughout his career. "Black Tie" is insightful and touching in its depiction of a man welcoming back that ghost many of us have to banish consciously from our minds as we grow older, the voice of a parent (or grandparent) that becomes an internal barometor of the propriety of our behavior, whether we like it or not.