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.

NYCityBoy When I started watching this movie, I assumed it was some low budget movie used to fill space on a second rate cable channel. I was so off... so wrong. This movie is hilarious, sweet, profound, gentle, realistic, and thoughtful. Men, women, girls, and boys alike would this movie.The journey of the two brothers (who couldn't be more different from each other personality-wise) to Russia to find brides is so funny in a soft, gentle sort of way. I found it didn't trivialize or work with stereotypes regarding this process. The one flaw (if it is that) is that the movie is really from the perspective of the two brothers (until the very end). They are so naive in so many ways, and this perspective highlights it.Such a wonderful movie. Sometimes sad, but not in a depressing way. More like "ahh... that's just life" kindasorta way.I'd actually go as far as to say that it is one of the best movies I've seen in months. No joke. (And I watch a lot of movies).Watch this movie.

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.

byrony Tim Blake Nelson and David Arquette are brothers and farmers. When their mother dies, Nelson decides they should go find a wife "for cooking and cleaning but not for sex." They travel to St Petersburg Russia on a "romance" tour to find a wife. There they run into Emily Mortimer who's filming a documentary on these introduction services. The three leads are excellent with particular kudos to Nelson who delivers an honest performance as the older brother desperately trying to find a wife to take back. Arquette makes a nice turn as a mama's boy becoming a lothario and Mortimer is wonderful as the observer who becomes a part of the story. A very pleasant surprise of a movie. The Russian sequences were shot over two weeks during an actual romance tour.