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Given to misogynistic outbursts that border on the psychotic, Maxwell Bright (Patrick Warburton) is as unlikable as movie heroes come, yet director David Beaird insists there is Zen within this modern Neanderthal.
Sam Sweet, L.A. Weekly
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After a series of bad relationships, a man orders a mail order bride and receives more than he bargained for.
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You have to wonder what David Beaird, writer-director of the execrable The Civilization of Maxwell Bright, was thinking when he created his abusive, misogynistic title character.
Los Angeles Times
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