Holy Matrimony is a 1994 comedy film directed by Leonard Nimoy and starring Patricia Arquette. 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. A young couple, Havana & Peter , rob a county fair of its daily receipts and escape to Canada to hide out in the Hutterite community where Peter was raised. While there, they get married to satisfy the conservative elders in the community. Peter hides their loot in a secret hiding place, but then is killed in a car wreck. His much younger... brother Zeke is called upon to replace his brother and marry Havana in a levirate marriage. Zeke already hates Havana because he believes that she influences his elder brother's behavior. She begins looking through everything that was Peter's, and Zeke rightly deduces that Peter hid something from her. He finds the money, along with a newspaper article that mentions Peter as the prime suspect in the robbery. Zeke initially uses the cash to trick his bride into doing housework.
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| Release date: | April 8, 1994 |
| Directed by: | Leonard Nimoy |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 93 Minutes |
| Producer: | Diane Nabatoff, William Stuart, David Madden |
| Music by: | Bruce Broughton |
| Screenplay by: | David Weisberg, Douglas S. Cook |
| Estimated budget: | $20,000,000 |
| Genre: | Comedy |