Movie Review: "The Marriage Pass"

The Marriage Pass

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If you haven’t watched The Marriage Pass on Tubi yet, I definitely recommend it. Let’s dive in...

From the very beginning, I could tell the husband was going to be a problem. Even though they were newlyweds, there was no real happiness in their marriage. Before tying the knot, the husband had been a rolling stone, and it was clear he struggled with the idea of being committed to just one woman. The wife also gave me doubts early on, and then we meet her sister—the “wild one.” From the start, it was obvious she had an interest in her brother-in-law, and the husband was intrigued as well, though at first, he didn’t act on it.

Their unhappiness escalates when another woman suggests that the wife give her husband a “marriage pass”—essentially, permission to sleep with someone else for one night. In my opinion, if a marriage reaches the point where that’s even being considered, the relationship is already over. Divorce would make more sense than negotiating a hall pass.

Predictably, the husband uses that pass with his wife’s sister. That one-night encounter turns into an ongoing affair that spirals completely out of control. The sister becomes obsessive, and the husband—consumed by guilt—starts to suspect his wife of cheating, though it’s really just his conscience eating away at him.

Things unravel quickly. Weeks later, the sister claims she’s pregnant. The husband loses his medical practice and license. He tries to pay the sister off with $10,000, but she discovers he’s worth millions and pushes for more. Desperate, he gives her everything just to make her disappear. But his secrets are too big to keep hidden.

Eventually, it’s revealed that the only reason he married his wife in the first place was because she got pregnant. He never wanted to be a husband or a father. Worse, he gave her medication to induce an abortion late in her pregnancy—using his own medical license to write the prescription. That alone made him unfit to practice medicine.🩺🩺

Here’s the twist: the wife and her sister were working together all along. They set him up to destroy his career and finances as payback for what he had done. The affair with the sister was orchestrated, the photos and videos were evidence, and even the millions he “gave” away ended up back in his wife’s hands.💵💵

By the end, justice comes crashing down on him when the police burst in to arrest him. The wife finally pursues her dream of becoming a chef, and the sister—pregnant with his child—moves abroad.🤰🏾🤍👩🏾‍🍳

Surprisingly, the sisters’ relationship strengthens through all of this, even though they weren’t close at the start.🤔😬

I give The Marriage Pass a solid 9/10. The suspense and buildup were excellent, and the climax delivered. My only criticism would be the sister’s acting, which felt a bit weak at times, but everything else was spot on. Definitely worth watching.‼️‼️