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      My Wife's Relations

      1922 30m Comedy List
      Reviews 76% 250+ Ratings Audience Score Buster is mistakenly married to a large Polish woman with four gorilla-like brothers. Read More Read Less

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      sean l Buster Keaton was often one to draw creative inspiration from his personal life. Frequently his love life, which was stormy and dramatic. Here's one such example: he married his first wife in 1921, and within a year he produced this short film, about a well-meaning sucker who's torn from his happy livelihood by a sudden marriage and an abhorrent set of greedy, oafish in-laws. The fictional version involves four large, bumbling brothers, as contrasted by his real bride's two sisters (all successful actresses), but it doesn't take much effort to read between the lines. In this case, unfortunately, the personal connection doesn't result in many laughs. Buster is unjustly abused and exploited, despite his best efforts to make nice and blend in. Even when those good intentions don't backfire, his craftiness occasionally trumping his overwhelming bad luck, he's barely given a pat on the head before catching the persona non grata tag again and the whole dance begins anew. It all culminates in a desperate chase, as many of Keaton's capers seem to, this one through a posh mansion and across the crowded roadways just outside. That's the sizzle of the film, another example of the expressive star's knack for repurposing everyday objects in acrobatic new ways, but it's brief and inconclusive. Satisfying climaxes sometimes seem optional in these brief comedies, but this one ends far more abruptly than most. Almost as if its star hadn't yet found an answer to his own similar, private entanglement. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review Audience Member Not my favorite, but some good moments of Keaton outsmarting those around him. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/23/23 Full Review Audience Member Keaton mistakenly get married to a horrid woman and must deal with her brothers as well living under the same roof. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/15/23 Full Review Audience Member While a decent film, My Wife's Relations didn't deliver as many laughs as many of Keaton's other shorts. Still, seeing Buster try to live with his new family is amusing. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/20/23 Full Review eric b The humor is mostly just slapstick pratfalls and punches, but it's still funny. Not much cleverness in play, beyond the initial premise that sets up Buster accidentally marrying an incompatible stranger. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review sarfaraz a Buster Keaton, is as always the one who cannot stop his intelligent take-on even itsy-bitsy issues, and turn them into comedy-filled entertainment. This was a truly a film I enjoyed to the greatest deal, full of humor. It is rather humorous to see him suffering under the mean family of his wife, which is too cute. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Harriette Underhill New York Tribune Slapstick comedies are not the least bit amusing to us. We used to hope that we should reform, but now we're sure we never shall. Sep 12, 2019 Full Review Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews Buster Keaton has a ball mocking a loveless marriage. Rated: B+ Oct 19, 2011 Full Review Read all reviews

      Movie Info

      Synopsis Buster is mistakenly married to a large Polish woman with four gorilla-like brothers.
      Director
      Buster Keaton
      Screenwriter
      Buster Keaton
      Genre
      Comedy
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Nov 5, 2016
      Runtime
      30m
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