The movie is apparently set in the present.
(Actually, it's Castle Hill, in Ipswich, Mass., built by the Crane family of Chicago, whose toilets you may have admired.) Connor is attending the wedding only to warn against it he has a horror of getting hitched and extols a lifetime of unrestrained promiscuity. Connor appears on the eve of the wedding of his younger brother Paul ( Breckin Meyer), who lives in the mansion of their late Uncle Wayne ( Michael Douglas), a structure designed roughly along the lines of Versailles.
