Maidgethma Wonderfully offbeat film!

Baseshment I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

AutCuddly Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,

Cody One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

cosmicly This film is a down to earth story about two farm boy brothers who live with their "Old Ma" who does their cooking, cleaning and advising.The older brother, Jake (Tim Blake Nelson), is a stereotypical farmer: honest, hard working, not at all flashy, the kind of guy most women find boring.The younger brother, Josh (David Arquette), is every woman's dream: a man who needs to be MOTHERED.When their "Old Ma" dies, the guys are desperate for someone to keep house and cook for them. They head to Saint-Petersburg, Russia on a romance tour with a real life company known as A Foreign Affair.The strength of this film is that it is as honest as the character Jake. It depicts the exciting potential of romance across cultures that exist thousands of miles apart. It shows the sincere seekers of love and marriage and family life; but it also shows the gold digging women who are mainly interested in financial gain; and it also shows the lecherous guys who are less suited for a romance tour than they are for a "perverted sex tour" to Bangkok, Thailand.All in all, a film that is very well done, and genuine. One particular highlight is the character of journalist Angela Beck, excellently played by Emily Mortimer, whom some may recognize as the woman to whom Val Kilmer gives a cross containing a microchip, the newlywed wife whose unfaithful husband already has a girlfriend, in the movie "The Saint." And her name may be familiar to fans of "Rumpole of the Bailey." Emily's father John Mortimer is the author of the Rumpole stories.

zayets Tim Nelson Blake and David Arquette play two asexual brothers, who after the death of their Mother/housekeeper, decide to go on a bachelor tour to Russia to find a replacement.In Russia, the brothers meet the stereotypical, cardboard cut, vodka swigging Russian characters. The Russians are merely pushed aside in this story as second or even third class citizens while the superior Westerners go about their cherry picking.After Tim Blake has turned down every advance from gorgeous women and shown no interest in a relationship, you can't understand why he went to Russia in the first place. There are plenty of cheap illegals working as housekeepers in LA. He could have booked a trip on greyhound.Instead we are treated to a nauseating hour of Blake going through his highlighted list and his "unfunny" attempts of assigning women numbers. Emily Mortimer appears not as a Russian looking for love and a green card, but as a British investigative reporter doing a story on these tours. Her Russian is quite good and she could have played a Russian love interest. But then again, this film is not about love. It is about finding a maid. David Arquette's character turns out to be a little more human. He warms up to the Russian ladies and scores with a few. But none of the relationships are serious. It is all tongue and cheek, like a frat party. Instead of delving into the various reasons why these men and women join these tours, the film makers simply provide the superficial reasons, the American men want sex, and the Russian women want green cards. The real popularity of these tours stem in part because they offer our pill popping generation a quick fix solution for love and poverty. On the positive side, David Arquette and Emily Mortimer give good performances. Blake is credible, but his character is highly unlikable. Larry Pine does a fantastic job as the greasy tour director. For a low budget film, the cinematography is quite good.Don't waste your time with this trash. Story is weak and stupid. Offensive to women and Russians everywhere.

ArizWldcat I am a big fan of Tim Blake Nelson, and he did not disappoint in this film about a real "mail order bride" service called "A Foreign Affair". In fact, the filmmakers distributed a copy of the catalog this company puts out. Otherwise, this might seem like a fabrication, I suppose. The film was about two mama's boys (actually mama favored the younger boy) whose mama dies and leaves them helpless and unable to take care of themselves. The older one (Nelson) decides they need a wife (singular...sort of a reverse polygamy), and goes to the library to check out the mail order bride industry. (Allyce Beasley has a funny cameo as the librarian). Then he drags his reluctant brother off to Russia in search of a wife for both of them. Several of the company's real life clients appear in the film, interestingly enough. I enjoyed it immensely, and I hope this somehow finds its way into theaters.

realtigerbomb I haven't yet watched the film, as it has not been released in the uk. I have recently been on the tour, that the film was based on and I would recommend it to anyone. I took part in a documentary for local television and it was about the journey of two local guys, looking for love in St Petersburg, Russia. This will be shown on Tyne Tees Television from 21/2/03. To do it for real, was better then to act the part.