Mail Order Wife

R

Released Sep 24, 2004

1h 31m

Comedy

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61%

31 Reviews

Tomatometer

68%

1,000+ Ratings

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A filmmaker (Andrew Gurland) documents the lives of a chubby doorman (Adrian Martinez) and his mail-order bride (Eugenia Yuan) from Burma.

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Critics Consensus

The setup for Mail Order Wife is clever, but the movie is only moderately funny, and it stumbles badly in the third act.

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Audience Member

Don't expect an easy ride the whole way through, it has very dark moments,but it is more than worth it. Having seen a Gurland short- it appears race is a preoccupation and here he and Botko pan out to bring gender roles into the picture. The result is laugh out loud funny. The cast are all excellent & it is truly a fantastic example of Indie Cinema, yYu wade through a lot of crap to find films like this, but what a reward when you do.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/21/23

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Great acting but I don't really know what I feel about the rest of it. I didn't find it funny in the least, probably because I have some knowledge of what mail order brides actually experience and it's not a really funny subject. Also, I don't know what we're supposed to take away from this movie-that all men are pigs or that women are manipulating bitches? I think the filmmakers took on a grim subject but failed to stir any emotion in me other than discomfort and ambivalence.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

02/23/23

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Audience Member

watch this, i dont wanna ruin anything

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/19/23

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Audience Member

uhhhhm, ROFLMFAO!!!! lolCOPTERS!!!!

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

01/21/23

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jake s

A very well done darkly comic mockumentary. So, well done in fact, that if someone didn't tell you that going in, you might mistake it for a real report from "60 Minutes" or something and miss all the humor, because gags are delivered so dry & quick.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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Audience Member

This movie just plain sucks.It tries to pass itself off as a real life documentary but it's not.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

01/26/23

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Huck Botko

Director

Robert Capelli Jr.

Director

Adrian Martinez

Adrian

Eugenia Yuan

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Andrew Gurland

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Deborah Teng

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Marrit Ingman

Austin Chronicle

Rated: 3.5/5

Apr 23, 2005

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Ned Martel

New York Times

Strange, often silly mockumentary.

Rated: 2/5

Apr 2, 2005

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Owen Gleiberman

Entertainment Weekly

It took gifted hucksters to make this movie.

Rated: B

Mar 30, 2005

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Film Threat

Rated: 3/5

Dec 6, 2005

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Chris Cabin

Filmcritic.com

has a knack for sniffing out our dark areas without pity

Rated: 3.5/5

Oct 7, 2005

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Chris Hewitt

St. Paul Pioneer Press

A movie that rewards your intelligence and curiosity.

Rated: 3/4

Jul 28, 2005

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Synopsis

A filmmaker (Andrew Gurland) documents the lives of a chubby doorman (Adrian Martinez) and his mail-order bride (Eugenia Yuan) from Burma.

Director: Huck Botko, Robert Capelli Jr.
Producer: David Bartis, Bo Hyde, Doug Liman, Gary Rubin, Bobby Sheng
Screenwriter: Huck Botko, Andrew Gurland
Distributor: Dada Films
Production Co: Cherry Road Films LLC
Rating: R (Disturbing Sexual Material|Language)
Genre: Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Sep 24, 2004, Original
Release Date (Streaming): May 6, 2017
Box Office (Gross USA): $62.4K
Runtime: 1h 31m