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05/13/06
La Mujer de mi Hermano (2006)
21 %
Reviews Counted: 39 Fresh: 8 Rotten:31 Average Rating: 4.3/10
Consensus:
No better than an R-rated "telenovela," with the requisite love triangle involving uncommonly attractive players and banal plotlines.
Runtime: 1 hr 33 mins
Synopsis: An international cast of beauties brings cosmopolitan flavor to what could have been a typical melodrama. Adapted from the best-selling novel by Peruvian author Jaime Bayly, LA MUJER DE MI HERMANO (English translation--MY BROTHER'S WIFE) is a soap-operatic tale, complete with... [More]
Genre: Foreign Films
Starring: Barbara Mori, Christian Meier, Angelica Aragon, Bruno Bichir, Angelica Aragon
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05/06/06
Here's a 'steamy' soap opera that's never very steamy, and if you set your expectations low, this movie is only too happy to meet them.
05/05/06
It's a gorgeously mounted soap, with enough third-act surprises to justify its reputation (it was a huge hit in Latin America).
05/05/06
With one-dimensional characters stuck in a plot that gives them nothing noteworthy to do, only the most superficial aspects remain to be admired: the attractive cast, their attractive clothes and the attractive houses in which they live.
05/05/06
Soapy, sappy, silly and sluggish, La Mujer de Mi Hermano (My Brother's Wife) is one of those issue movies that wants to cram every hot topic it can think of into a melodramatic situation.
05/05/06
Debut director Ricardo de Montreuil only cares about filming pretty people in the most hackneyed positions imaginable.
05/05/06
The movie knows exactly what it's doing, and does exactly what it intends, without making one false move.
05/04/06
Stars actors from all over South America and was shot in Chile by a Peruvian director, yet what it most closely resembles is a Mexican soap opera.
05/03/06
if a movie ever needed a gratuitous shot of a breast or a bare a** it's La Mujer de Mi Hermano
04/29/06
90 minutes of wheezing emotional flare-ups, played with such straight-faced sobriety that I wanted to slap these people and tell them all to lighten up
04/20/06
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