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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Movie Info
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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
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