Taglines: He loved her from afar. It wasn’t far enough.
Mr. Wrong begins with Martha Alston (DeGeneres) in a wedding gown incarcerated in a Mexican prison. The investigators call her Mrs. Crawford and listen to her explain why she committed murder on her wedding day.
Some months earlier, Martha attends her younger sister’s wedding. Afterwards, Martha is pestered by her overbearing parents about when she will get married herself being 31 years old with her biological clock ticking. Martha works as an associate producer for a local TV talk show in San Diego. She rejects an offer of going out on a date with a younger co-worker, named Walter (John Livingston). Disappointed by her dull Valentine’s Day blind date, she goes home to sulk in front of the TV, where, inundated by romantic imagery, she is prompted to get out of the house.
Martha goes to a bar where she drops her quarter in front of the jukebox. She bends down to get it when a man shows up and selects the same song she would have chosen. He is Whitman Crawford (Pullman), and they instantly hit it off. They go back to his house and have sex. He says he’s a poet and an investor, and has money. He reads her one of his poems.
Mr. Wrong is a 1996 American romantic / black comedy film starring Ellen DeGeneres, Bill Pullman, Joan Cusack, Dean Stockwell, Joan Plowright, John Livingston, Ellen Cleghorne, Hope Davis and Christine Cattell. DeGeneres still mentions it occasionally in her talk show, The Ellen DeGeneres Show. It was a critical failure and a box office bomb.
Mr. Wrong (1996)
Directed by: Nick Castle
Starring: Ellen DeGeneres, Bill Pullman, Joan Cusack, Dean Stockwell, Joan Plowright, John Livingston, Ellen Cleghorne, Hope Davis, Christine Cattell
Screenplay by: Chris Matheson, Kerry Ehrin, Craig Munson
Production Design by: Doug Kraner
Cinematography by: John Schwartzman
Film Editing by: Patrick Kennedy
Costume Design by: Ingrid Ferrin
Set Decoration by: Cloudia Rebar
Art Direction by: Nancy Patton
Music by: Craig Safan
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for crude language, some sex related scenes and drug content.
Distributed by: Buena Vista Pictures
Release Date: February 16, 1996
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