Rating: PG13
Genre:
Comedy Drama
Theatrical Release: 05/07/2004(USA
Release Date: 07/06/2004
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD5.1
Run Time: 92 Minutes
Flags: Adult Situations, Adult Language, Adult Humor, Sexual Situations
Distributor/Studio: Universal Studios
Two men look for a wife -- just one will do, thank you -- in this offbeat
comedy.
Jake (
Tim Blake Nelson) and
Josh (
David Arquette) are two brothers who live and work in a vegetable farm somewhere in the Midwest, where they're looked after by their
Ma (
Lois Smith), who cooks, cleans, and keeps the guys company. When
Ma dies,
Jake and
Josh find they're a bit lonely all by their lonesome, and more importantly, they're not much good at everyday domestic activities, so they decide to do the sensible thing -- one of them will get married so they'll have someone else to talk to and handle things in the kitchen and the laundry room. Woefully naïve, socially clumsy, and less interested in romance than day-to-day practicalities,
Jake and
Josh decide to head out on a matchmaking tour to St. Petersburg, Russia, where they're promised introductions to hundreds of women over the space of two weeks, in hopes that they'll find an understanding, old-fashioned wife who doesn't mind having a third wheel around at all times.
A Foreign Affair was shot on location in St. Petersburg in the former Soviet Union, and in Chihuahua, Mexico, which stood in for the United States.
~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
