Holy Matrimony (1994 film)
Holy Matrimony is a 1994 comedy film directed by Leonard Nimoy and starring Patricia Arquette and Joseph GordonLevitt in his feature film debut. The film tells the story of a beautiful thief, hiding in a small, isolated religious community, who marries a young boy in order to retrieve a hidden fortune. It was the final feature film directed by Nimoy.
Holy Matrimony received negative reviews from critics and was a box office failure, grossing just a little over 715,000 in its limited release.The authors Rod Janzen and Max Stanton stated in their book The Hutterites in North America The film ... provides a very inaccurate portrait of Hutterites. For example, levirate marriage does not exist among Hutterites. People have to dress in a moderate way, when they are at a Hutterite colony. Its only possible for baptized members of the Hutterite community to marry at a colony. ........
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