Mail Order Bride

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4.4 User Score:

Overwhelming dislike

Based on 6 critic reviews
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Movie Info

Genre(s): Comedy | Crime | Romance

Written by: Doug Bollinger
Robert Capelli Jr.
Sergey Konenkov

Directed by: Robert Capelli Jr.
Jeffrey Wolf

Release Date:
Theatrical: November 21, 2003
DVD: February 22, 2005

Running Time: 84 minutes, Color

Origin: USA

Summary

RATING: R for language and some sexual content

Starring Danny Aiello, Robert Capelli Jr., Ivana Milicevic, Artie Lange, Slava Schoot, Raymond Serra, Marilyn J. Papa, and Jackie Martling

When New York's top mob boss Tony Santini (Aiello) discovers several of his men have been scammed by a Russian Mail Order Bride who's escaped back to Russia with their cash, he decided to send the troublesome nephew Anthony to Russia to bring back the girl and the money.

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What The Critics Said

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...

Village Voice Nat Johnson

The hapless goodfella-in-training is as unsuccessful at fulfilling his uncle's wishes as the star and co-director, Robert Capelli Jr., is at delivering punchlines.

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TV Guide Maitland McDonagh

This amateurish comedy features some amazing sequences shot in Moscow. But everything else about it is second rate.

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The Hollywood Reporter Frank Scheck

Ultimately unable to overcome both its amateurish qualities and its overly familiar elements.

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Variety Ronnie Scheib

Dismally unfunny cross-cultural farce posits stupidity as the universal language.

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New York Post Megan Lehmann

As if the witless cultural stereotypes weren't bad enough, misogyny is rampant -- bare-breasted women abound, yet the protagonist remains fully clothed while having a bullet removed from his butt.

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The New York Times Stephen Holden

Might have generated a laugh or two had it not forced the actors into uncomfortable extremes of caricature.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this movie is 4.4 (out of 10) based on 9 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Sam gave it a0:
Hey! look at the theatrical release date for the movie, and the DVD and video release date Tina P. and Jim P.! It says it came out on 2003 and 2005, what does that tell ya? It tells me that when it a few months after it came out in theaters, the people that made it thought "Oh s..t, we made that sucky movie and we still have to put it on video an DVD, I just forgot all about it since it easily the worst movie I've ever made and the worst movie I've ever seen, let's just put it out and get done with it for christ's sake!"

kurt gave it a0:
Worst movie ever made? possibly rather eat the film than watch it.

Dave W. gave it a1:
The movie's only redeeming feature is the vast sense of relief you will feel when you walk out.

Armando S. gave it a6:
The performances were uniformly good-the premise was believable and there was a fair amount of humor-definitively a black comedy.

Tina P. gave it a 9:
I thought this movie was hysterical. I laughed from begining to end. I thought Robert Capelli jr has absolutely charming and terrific. I would like to see more of him.

Jerrad H. gave it a 2:
Ummm...how can this only have a metascore of 6 if all four reviews given are at least 10? [Ed: See Scoring Explained page... raw averages are normalized]

Jim T. gave it a 10:
This had to be the best movie of the year!