The Civilization of Maxwell Bright is a 2005 romance film starring Patrick Warburton, Marie Matiko, Eric Roberts, Leland Crooke 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. The director is David Beaird. After a series of bad relationships, the last one ending with his lover injuring him with a hoe while they stand arguing on the street... fully nude in view of the cops and his neighbors, 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 house 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.
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| Release date: | June 6, 2005 |
| Directed by: | David Beaird |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 108 Minutes |
| Producer: | Shevonne Durkin |
| Genre: | Comedy |