Desc: My Brother's Wife: Directed by Jack Bender. With John Ritter, Mel Harris, Dakin Matthews, Lee Weaver. When Barney comes home for his father's funeral, his brother's wife Eleanor--Barney's first love--meets him and they go to the club where they first met, and Barney recalls how things kept him apart, like his need to act out at his father. And his fear of commitment.