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Quick Info

Rating

6.0/10

Release1997

Runtime1h 55m

StatusReleased

Budget$35,000,000

Revenue$31,611,225

Production

Yorktown Productions

The Bubble Factory

Sheinberg Productions

Universal Pictures

Movie

For Richer or Poorer

1997

1h 55m

6.0

Comedy

Romance

Synopsis

Brad Sexton and his wife, Caroline, are wealthy New Yorkers with both marital and financial problems. The latter issue becomes a pressing matter when they discover that their accountant has embezzled millions and pinned the blame on them. Forced to go on the lam, Brad and Caroline end up in an Amish area of Pennsylvania and decide to pose as members of the religious group to evade the IRS. As the two adapt to the simple Amish lifestyle, they begin to reconnect.

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