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ACTOR
Adrian MartinezRoland UruciAndrew GurlandEugenia Yuan
DIRECTOR
Huck Botko,Andrew Gurland
SYNOPSICS
Mail Order Wife (2004) is a English,Mandarin,Cantonese movie. Huck Botko,Andrew Gurland has directed this movie. Adrian Martinez,Roland Uruci,Andrew Gurland,Eugenia Yuan are the starring of this movie. It was released in 2004. Mail Order Wife (2004) is considered one of the best Comedy movie in India and around the world.
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Have fun tricking your friends
Refer your friends to the interview(s) in which Gurland refers to this film as a "documentary" in production, then watch their jaws hit the floor as you all witness perhaps the most memorable use of PostIt Notes and a Cadillac El Dorado ever committed to film. Despite the clearly stated genre of "narrative feature" in the SXSW program, I somehow got suckered into missing the fact that this is a mockumentary. The contrast between the doorman's anachronistically furnished and dimly lit Queens hovel and the filmmaker's bright, Crate and Barrel-esque (Manhattan?) flat creates a palpable sense of class warfare that really sells the "reality" of this film to the duped viewer. The scene in the doctor's office was the only one that I almost didn't believe, but it was done so well that I still bought it. I loved every hilarious and painful minute of this film. Within its genre, I give it a 10/10.
Still Laughing
The best movies are the ones you know nothing about. I was lucky, I got around to watching this movie in Nov 2010 and had no clue what it was about. When I realized it was a documentary, I gave it ten minutes to see if the content was interesting enough for me to stick around. About a half hour into it I was disgusted by what I was watching and emotionally committed despite the bells going off in my head trying to warn me something was not quite right. Then the brilliance of the film reaches out and smacked me in the head. I never laughed at myself as hard as I did when "the gotcha moment" came. It happened a little over the halfway point for me, perhaps a little earlier for some folks, a little later for others and from the looks of it, by some previous reviews not at all for the wrapped too tight around the handle crowd. As I go back over the movie, I can't believe how stupid I was to fall for any of it and I laugh at myself all over again. Stnding O fellas, you got me.
Highly Recommended!
I recently was able to to see this film in NYC and found it highly entertaining. I would say it has a sort of "Curb your Enthusiasm" feel and I say this because I found myself laughing out loud, but almost feeling guilty for having done so. The people involved in this "mockumentary" all have their own strengths, weaknesses and motivations that really sell the plot and their performances. The characters are quite believable and the acting is spot-on (the celebrity cameo scene is one of the highlights of the film imho). For anyone looking for an offbeat comedy with enough emotion and heart to bind the story together, this is a must-see!
This film was wonderful
I was immediately engrossed in the film. It was a great story and the actors were believable as real people filming a documentary. It is one of those movies that you think about for days after wards and discuss the many rich details with people who've also seen it. The fullness of the characters, the humor, the sadness -- just that slice of life's realities reminded me of another great sleeper film called "Simply Ballroom." (Though the stories are very, very different.) The entire there clapped when Mail Order Wife ended and you could tell that people loved it by their comments and smiles. I wish this film had gotten more press and hope that it becomes more well known when it gets to video.
"...a remarkably smart and weird film..."
IT takes guts to make yourself look as ugly as Andrew Gurland does in the totally original but rather nasty mockumentary "Mail Order Wife." At first, this black-as-tar comedy looks like a traditional (though disturbing) documentary that Gurland is making about Adrian (Adrian Martinez), a schlub from Queens who gets a Burmese mail-order bride. But the story veers off in unexpected directions. Adrian turns out to be a depressingly unpleasant person, and after he ties up his bride, Lichi (Eugenia Yuan), to make a porno video, she runs away to the only other American she knows Andrew Gurland himself. Then things get really crazy. The fictional Andrew lets Lichi sleep on his couch, and then in his bed. His girlfriend leaves him. For a moment, it looks as though he and Lichi might fall in love. But that would be way too sincere for this movie, and it turns out that Lichi isn't as naive as she seems. The film twists and turns from there, each new development more surreal than the last, to a bizarre moment near the end when steroids-whistleblower Jose Canseco shows up to lend Andrew his yacht. "Mail Order Wife" is a remarkably smart and weird film, even if it's sad and sometimes difficult to watch, with jokes designed to make you cringe.