The Marrying Man was directed by Jerry Rees.
" Peter Rainer of the Los Angeles Times wrote that the film had "a terrific comic premise" but that Baldwin and Basinger "don't really make for a great match, and given the film's premise, that's a fatal problem
" Roger Ebert gave the film three stars out of four and likened it to "those lightweight, atmospheric comedies of the postwar era, in which the chemistry between the stars covered up for a certain lack of logic, continuity and polish

