Another wedding/dysfunctional family drama but one that, thankfully, delivers a deliciously multi-tiered cake, full of brilliant human observation and characters that might be flawed but are nevertheless sympathetic.

US Private Lynndie England suffered from depression and her mental condition, coupled with an overly compliant personality, made her a heedless participant in abuse of Iraqi inmates at Abu Ghraib prison, a psychologist told her military trial.

Defence lawyers appealed for leniency for Private Lynndie England at a hearing to determine her punishment in the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal, saying the reservist was oxygen-deprived at birth, speech-impaired and had trouble learning to read.