Americana: Trailer for Hitching

Moviegoers expect to be subjected to B-grade light shows, requests for charitable contributions or even car ads while waiting for the feature to begin. But in the Los Angeles area these past few months, theater screens have been carrying a new kind of trailer: a cinematic twist on the old mail-order-bride pitch. In the clip, titled What Do You Think of My Face?, a man named Marc Halberstadt fills the silver screen. Explains the 36-year-old former furniture salesman, who scraped together $1,200 to produce the film as a gimmick to find a wife: "I wanted to create the most significant mating...

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