Polish Wedding is a 1998 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Theresa Connelly and is also (a then-unknown) Kristen Bell's film debut in her uncredited role. It was screened at the Sundance Film Festival on January 16, 1998 and Berlin International Film Festival on February 12. It was released in the U.S. on July 17. It takes place within the Polish American community of Hamtramck, Michigan - the girlhood home of director Theresa Connelly - at some time between the 1950s and 1970s. Virtually all characters are Polish Americans, though the actors playing them are mostly of other ethnic origins.