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Mail Order Bride (2003 film)

2003 American film

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 10, 2026
Entity authorityQ139694417 ↗
Source-derived summary

Mail Order Bride is a 2003 American comedy film written by Doug Bollinger, Robert Capelli Jr. and Sergei Konenkov, directed by Capelli and Jeffrey Wolf and starring Danny Aiello, Ivana Miličević and Capelli.

Plot

Cast

Danny Aiello as Tony Santini

Robert Capelli Jr. as Anthony Santini

Ivana Miličević as Nina/Butterfly

Slava Schoot as Ivan

Artie Lange as Tommy

Reception

The film has a 29% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on seven reviews.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Mail Order Bride (2003 film)” as 2003 American film. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Mail, Order and Bride.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2003—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Mail, Order and Bride providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Mail Order Bride (2003 film)”, the useful work is to connect “2003 American film” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 10, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q139694417. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2003.

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This entry incorporates text from “Mail Order Bride (2003 film)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.