Mr. Wrong
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| Directed by | Nick Castle |
| Produced by | Marty Katz |
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Chris Matheson Kerry Ehrin Craig Munson |
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| Music by | Craig Safan |
| Cinematography | John Schwartzman |
| Edited by | Patrick Kennedy |
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| Distributed by | Buena Vista Pictures |
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96 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $19 million |
| Box office | $12.8 million |
Mr. Wrong is a 1996 American romantic/black comedy film starring Ellen DeGeneres and Bill Pullman. DeGeneres still mentions it occasionally in her talk show, The Ellen DeGeneres Show. It was a critical failure and a box office bomb.
The film begins with Martha Alston (DeGeneres) in a wedding gown incarcerated in a Mexican prison. The investigators call her Mrs. Crawford and listen to her explain why she committed murder on her wedding day.
Some months earlier, at her younger sister's wedding, Martha is pestered by her family about when she'll get married. At work, she rejects a date with a younger coworker, Walter (John Livingston). Disappointed by her dull Valentine's Day , she goes home to in front of the TV, where, inundated by romantic imagery, she is prompted to get out of the house.
Martha goes to a bar where she drops her quarter in front of the jukebox. She bends down to get it when a man shows up and selects the same song she would have chosen. He is Whitman Crawford (Pullman), and they instantly hit it off. They go back to his house and have sex. He says he's a poet and an investor. He reads her one of his poems.
Martha introduces Whitman to her family and he impresses them. But by the time she meets his mother (Plowright), Martha has become convinced he is not "Mr. Right" at all. Whitman at this point is revealed to be a crafty, devious, narcissistic, sociopath who hides behind a charming nice-guy persona that fools everyone he comes into contact with. To make matters worse, Whitman's ex-girlfriend, Inga (Joan Cusack) (who is nearly as crazy and sociopathic as Whitman), and her accomplice, Bob (Brad William Henke), begin harassing Martha who decides to break up with Whitman. Inga refuses to believe that Martha has dumped Whitman. Whitman also refuses to believe he has been dumped and he begins stalking Martha and trying to woo her back in increasingly ridiculous ways. Martha soon becomes frustrated and desperate after the manipulative Whitman tells her whole smitten and obilivious family that they are engaged to be married. He even buys off her private investigator () that she hires to make a background check on him. All of Martha's attempts to expose Whitman as the sociopath that he is to her friends and family is met with disbelief and skeptisim from everyone due to his skill of lying and manipulation. Whitman goes as far as to abduct Martha to Mexico to marry her there.
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