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Mail Order Wife

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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.
Mail Order Wife

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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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Ned Martel New York Times 04/02/2005
2/5
Strange, often silly mockumentary. Go to Full Review
Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly 03/30/2005
B
It took gifted hucksters to make this movie. Go to Full Review
Ruthe Stein San Francisco Chronicle 03/25/2005
3/4
Co-directors Huck Botko and Andrew Gurland, who appear as earnest documentary filmmakers of the same name, pull it off by never winking at the audience or signaling in any fashion that this isn't a true story. Go to Full Review
Film Threat 12/06/2005
3/5
Chris Cabin Filmcritic.com 10/07/2005
3.5/5
has a knack for sniffing out our dark areas without pity Go to Full Review
Chris Hewitt St. Paul Pioneer Press 07/28/2005
3/4
A movie that rewards your intelligence and curiosity. Go to Full Review
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06/09/2015 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. See more 03/07/2013 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. See more 04/25/2012 watch this, i dont wanna ruin anything See more 06/10/2011 uhhhhm, ROFLMFAO!!!! lolCOPTERS!!!! See more jake s 09/16/2010 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. See more 02/11/2010 This movie just plain sucks.It tries to pass itself off as a real life documentary but it's not. See more Read all reviews
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Movie Info

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
Avram Ludwig, Kendall Morgan, Andrew Weiner, Nina Yang Bongiovi
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