Holy Matrimony

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Holy Matrimony

PG-13

1994

1h 33m

Comedy

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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.

Jonathan Romney

Guardian

Arquette is screechily obnoxious and the whole thing's an unfunny, unholy mess indeed.

Mar 2, 2024

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Stephen Amidon

Financial Times

This sappy hymn to family values should offend nobody -- except people who like good cinema.

Mar 1, 2024

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Geoff Brown

Times (UK)

Leonard Nimoy's film is not as distasteful as the plotline suggests, but it still leaves the stomach churning.

Mar 1, 2024

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Jeff Simon

Buffalo News

With luck, Disney studios reached absolute bottom with this movie.

Rated: 0/5

Feb 29, 2024

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Steve Persall

Tampa Bay Times

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.

Rated: C

Feb 13, 2021

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David Nusair

Reel Film Reviews

...a hopelessly misguided comedy that just never manages to find its footing...

Rated: 1/4

Jun 17, 2015

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Steve D

One of the most uncomfortable and unfunny films ever made.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

02/19/23

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Audience Member

A disgusting premise, a terrible script and awful, awful direction make this a contender for worst film of all time.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

07/06/21

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Audience Member

Despite an uneven plot, Holy Matrimony delivers enough laughs along with the charming performances between Patricia Arquette and Joseph Gordon-Levitt.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/23/23

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★ (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]

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

02/09/23

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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

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

02/27/23

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Very bad movie, but bad movies from the 90's still find ways to be watchable.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

01/28/23

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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: PolyGram Filmed Entertainment, Aurora Productions LLC, Interscope Communications, Hollywood Pictures
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