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Three sisters, Wanda, Sonja and Michelle are showing a home movie of good times when they were children on holiday in Portugal, where their father owned a hotel, called Hotel Paraiso. The women are in their thirties, but although they are all married, they haven't really settled down, and there is a certain rivalry between them as will as sisterly affection.
Their father has died, and he left the hotel to them all equally, unless the younger brother, Nino, marries before he is 33 years old. Dad suspected that he was gay, you see. Just before the deadline, Nino announces that he has found a bride and is going to marry her. The sisters had promised themselves a share in the hotel, and now they might lose everything. So now they will stop at nothing to sabotage the wedding, and thwart Nino's efforts to inherit.
They meet the bride-to-be, called Bo, and she is a pleasant and pretty young woman, and they find it difficult to dislike her. The wedding is to be a civil ceremony in the hotel in Portugal, and they all go there a few days beforehand to organise things, which incidentally gives the women an opportunity to sleep with one another's partners. But in the meantime, we are shown that Nino still carries a torch for his boyfriend, Felix. Felix is a television chef, and Nino manages to get in to the location where Nino is filming for a television show. Nino has gone dressed as a woman (though a shave might have been a good idea). But nothing much is made of this, and Nino leaves after a moment, without speaking to Felix.
The wedding day comes, and Nino has increasingly got nerves. The ceremony starts, and just as Nino is about to say, "I do", Felix arrives in a taxi; Nino doesn't go ahead with the marriage. Everyone is distraught, except the three sisters, who open the champagne to toast the success of their sabotage. Their mother recovers and goes looking for Nino. He has found Bo to apologise and, sweet thing that she is, she has forgiven Nino and is helping him with his makeup.
The sisters are still celebrating, but a serious moment arises when they see a sort of flashback vision; it is themselves on the beach there in Portugal many years ago; and they have put a dress on Nino, who was then about twelve.
Well, the planned dinner and dance goes ahead, but with Nino in Bo's wedding dress -- rather improbably it fits -- and Bo is still in forgiving mood, and everyone seems to live happily ever after.
The title is a pun on the word zus which means sister. Zus & zo means something like Just Like That. The film is also known as Hotel Paraiso.
HF February 2006
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