a simple-minded circle jerk about exploitation, peopled by characters without the least bit of originality, vitality or appeal
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03/08/05
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Mail Order Wife (2005)
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Reviews Counted:32
Fresh:20
Rotten:12
Average Rating:6/10
Consensus: The setup for Mail Order Wife is clever, but the movie is only moderately funny, and it stumbles badly in the third act.
Theatrical Release:Mar 11, 2005 Limited
Synopsis: Andrew Gurland is a New York City filmmaker interested in making a documentary about an average guy and his marriage to a mail order bride. Andrew finds the perfect subject for his film and decides... [More]
Starring: Eugenia Yuan, Adrian Martinez, Andrew Gurland, Deborah Teng
Director: Andrew Gurland
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Reviews for Mail Order Wife
The filmmakers maintain the illusion of low-budget cinema verite to the extent that audiences may be unsure whether to laugh or shudder...
04/18/05
Coaxes its fair share of laughs from an audience sure to be squirming in their seats in discomfort, while the film's outrageous ending almost makes the slow ramp-up worthwhile.
03/26/04
More an exercise in sustaining a style than a satisfying emotional experience. The men are all self-centered boors, and the women, it turns out, aren't much better. There's nobody in this movie to root for or care about.
04/08/05
Mail Order Wife is a con. A good con, it's true, but like all cons it leaves a sour taste once the trick is revealed.
04/23/05
has a knack for sniffing out our dark areas without pity
10/07/05
Unpredictable and hugely entertaining.
07/28/05
Top CriticMail Order Wife is astonishingly cruel, and I say that in a good way.
03/13/05
It took gifted hucksters to make this movie.
03/30/05
Top CriticA movie that rewards your intelligence and curiosity.
07/28/05
[A] hilarious black comedy... all about puncturing balloons of self-importance...
03/07/05
A very funny and perfectly creepy study of objectification and romantic obsession.
03/31/05
Captures the conventions and pretensions of fly-on-the-wall docus with wicked accuracy.
03/18/05
Top CriticAs a documentary, unethical, disturbing, and completely irresponsible, but as black comedy...
05/07/05
Strange, often silly mockumentary.
04/02/05
Top CriticThe result, a dissection of the complicated dynamics of sexual and economic exploitation, is pitiless and occasionally inspired.
03/11/05
You know you're in trouble when baseballer-turned-ratfink Jose Canseco isn't the sleaziest thing in your movie.
05/06/05
Like a Farrelly Brothers movie, Mail Order Wife tries to be both politically correct and incorrect at the same time. The results are entertaining, but may cause uneasy mixed feelings.
04/02/05
A caustic comedic commentary on how men handle love, as well as how they're led around by the head of their genitalia, Mail Order Bride should not be missed.
03/25/04
Analogous to an overly long episode of Punk’d in which the moviegoing audience is the punkee.
02/17/05
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