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Plot

My Brother's Wife was adapted from A. R. Gurney's off-Broadway play The Middle Ages, but if you dig back a little you'll find a kernel of the plotline in Phillip Barry's 1928 play Holiday. John Ritter plays the flamboyantly nonconformist member of a staid Boston family. When he sees his future sister-in-law (Mel Harris), it's love at first sight. But neither act upon their impulses--not throughout the 1960s, the 1970s or the 1980s. The film finally catches up with Ritter and Harris at a family funeral, 27 years after their first meeting. Made for television, My Brother's Wife betrays its theatrical roots by confining most of its action to a single sitting room.
MPAA Rating:
Genre(s):
Romance
Run Time:
96min.
DVD Release Date:
09/26/2006
Director(s):
Jack Bender
Keywords:
black-sheep,family,funeral,sister-in-law,star-crossed-lovers
Language:
English