The Civilization of Maxwell Bright is a 2005 romance film starring Patrick Warburton, Marie Lan Matiko and Jennifer Tilly that has seen success on the arthouse movie circuit. It has won awards at the WorldFest Houston, New York VisionFest, Florida Film Festival, Boulder International Film Festival, and Beverly Hills Film Festival. It is about a man who obtains a mail-order bride, with unexpected results.

Synopsis

After a series of bad relationships, the last one ending with his lover injuring him with a hoe during sex, Maxwell Bright resolves to find his fantasy woman: obedient and submissive. His dissolute friends goad him into ordering a mail-order bride from China.

Mai Ling, the Chinese woman, arrives after six weeks. She is perfect, and even makes his chaotic apartment into a welcoming home. But Max reacts by treating her like a prostitute, and humiliates her in front of friends. At this point Mai Ling reveals that she is really a Buddhist nun who took her sister’s place. Max has an epiphany, and recognises Mai Ling as a deeply spiritual and moral woman.

They fall in love, and their relationship grows amid mutual respect. Mai Ling attempts to awaken Max’s buddha-nature, and Max introduces Mai Ling to the luxuries of modern American living.

This comes to an abrupt end when, his finances failing after spending $100,000 on Mai Ling, Max discovers that he also has terminal cancer. Mai Ling supports him and helps him to prepare for death, and he comes at last to explore his spiritual side and to make his peace with those he has harmed.

When Max dies, Mai Ling resumes her life as a nun.

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Categories: 2005 films | Romance films


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