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Holy Matrimony

Play trailer Poster for Holy Matrimony PG-13 1994 1h 33m Comedy Play Trailer Watchlist
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A Hutterite's widow (Patricia Arquette) weds her 12-year-old brother-in-law (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) to stay in the religious colony.

Critics Reviews

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Jonathan Romney Guardian 03/02/2024
Arquette is screechily obnoxious and the whole thing's an unfunny, unholy mess indeed. Go to Full Review
Stephen Amidon Financial Times 03/01/2024
This sappy hymn to family values should offend nobody -- except people who like good cinema. Go to Full Review
Geoff Brown The Times (UK) 03/01/2024
Leonard Nimoy's film is not as distasteful as the plotline suggests, but it still leaves the stomach churning. Go to Full Review
Jeff Simon Buffalo News 02/29/2024
0/5
With luck, Disney studios reached absolute bottom with this movie. Go to Full Review
Steve Persall Tampa Bay Times 02/13/2021
C
Holy Matrimony would be a better film had Nimoy and his writers not allowed a Hollywood-style crisis to intrude on Havana and Zeke's relationship. Go to Full Review
David Nusair Reel Film Reviews 06/17/2015
1/4
...a hopelessly misguided comedy that just never manages to find its footing... Go to Full Review
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Steve D 02/19/2023 One of the most uncomfortable and unfunny films ever made. See more 07/05/2021 A disgusting premise, a terrible script and awful, awful direction make this a contender for worst film of all time. See more 04/12/2014 Despite an uneven plot, Holy Matrimony delivers enough laughs along with the charming performances between Patricia Arquette and Joseph Gordon-Levitt. See more 02/13/2014 ★ (out of four) Painfully bad film that makes a miserable attempt at being a comedy. It has no funny moments and the plot is unbelievably patched together. Who thought this thing up? To make things worse, it is directed by Spock himself...Leonard Nimoy! Havana (Patricia Arquette) and her boyfriend Peter (Tate Donovan) are short on cash so they decide to rob a carnival. They steal the loot and hightail it to canada where they hide out with Peter's family in a Hutterite community, much like the Amish. Settling in Peter and Havana get married. Peter stashes the money in a secret place, but then persihes in a car accident. Hutterite law says that when a spouse dies then the bride must then marry the husband's brother. Problem is Zeke (Joseph Gordon-Levit) is only twelve years old. Havana agrees because Zeke is the only person who knows where Peter hid the dough. Can you believe that plot. Several producers actually read this script and thought it was a good idea for a movie. This explains a lot about the quality of many of the films in Hollywood. [IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v48/Zeppo1/HolyMatrimony_zps1687f185.jpg[/IMG] See more 08/11/2013 not funny, not a great drama. just an okay one-time watch movie. Joseph Gordon-Levitt did a great job and proved he would be a star See more 11/27/2012 Very bad movie, but bad movies from the 90's still find ways to be watchable. See more Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis A Hutterite's widow (Patricia Arquette) weds her 12-year-old brother-in-law (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) to stay in the religious colony.
Director
Leonard Nimoy
Producer
William Stuart, David Madden, Diane Nabatoff
Screenwriter
David Weisberg, Douglas Cook
Production Co
Aurora Productions LLC, Hollywood Pictures, PolyGram Filmed Entertainment, Interscope Communications
Rating
PG-13
Genre
Comedy
Original Language
English
Release Date (Streaming)
Oct 4, 2018
Box Office (Gross USA)
$616.9K
Runtime
1h 33m
Sound Mix
Surround, Stereo