My Wife's Relations

1922

Comedy

5
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 73% · 2 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 73% · 250 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.6/10 10 2619 2.6K

silent film short film short

Plot summary

Buster and a woman are mistakenly married and her initially unfriendly family begins to treat him nicely when they come to believe he has a large inheritance awaiting him.

Director

Buster Keaton Photo
Buster Keaton

Top cast

Buster Keaton Photo
Buster Keaton as The Husband
Wallace Beery Photo
Wallace Beery as Photographer
Tom Wilson Photo
Tom Wilson as Brother
Kate Price Photo
Kate Price as Kat - the Wife
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
244.4 MB
1280*960
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
24 fps
12 hr 26 min
Seeds 1
453.92 MB
1440*1080
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
24 fps
12 hr 26 min
Seeds 4

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by SendiTolver 6 / 10

Horror of Marraige

In the world where people misunderstand each other perfectly Buster Keaton is accidentally wedded with intimidating woman (Kate Price) with even more intimidating brothers. Buster is not very welcome in the family and he gets bullied around until one of the brothers finds an envelope in the Buster's pocket. Inside the envelope is a letter that declares that he has inherited $100.000. Suddenly all the family starts to take care of Buster - they treat him good (well, almost) and they rent an expensive mansion. Then they discover that the letter wasn't for Buster, and all hell breaks loose.The film has some quite funny and clever moments, but they are just moments. Like usually in the Buster Keaton's movies, this time the story doesn't go nowhere and random stunts (as magnificent as they are) are just random stunts in random order. Seems bit wasted opportunity, considering the talents of Buster Keaton. Still, it is fun and entertaining enough to spend your 25 minutes.
Reviewed by dhoffman 6 / 10

An interesting situation that never quite develops

The sudden and mistaken marriage of Keaton to an unlikely bride is the incident that forms the basis for the plot. Confronted by animalistic in-laws, who would be any groom's nightmare, Keaton maneuvers through their opportunism and materialism. Somehow the pieces don't quite fit together. There are episodes that are almost very funny, but not quite. Perhaps grounded too deeply to contemporary reality, I'm never able to accept the premise that Keaton would acquiesce to this marriage without any form of challenge. Perhaps that direction in plot would have produced a greater opportunity for Keaton's brand of comedy to shine.
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