The Accidental Husband (2008)

User Rating:

5.4/10   

Director:

Griffin Dunne

Writers (WGA):

Mimi Hare (written by) &
Clare Naylor (written by) ...

Release Date:

29 February 2008 (UK)

Genre:

Comedy | Romance

Tagline:

Falling in love... even the expert is confused.

Plot:

When talk radio host Emma Lloyd advises one of her listeners to break up with her boyfriend, the jilted ex sets about getting his revenge.

Plot Keywords:

Wedding | Fireman | Talk Radio | Secretary | Church

Cast

Uma Thurman	...	Dr. Emma Lloyd
Jeffrey Dean Morgan	...	Patrick Sullivan
Colin Firth	...	Richard Bratton
Sam Shepard	...	Wilder Lloyd
Lindsay Sloane	...	Marcy
Justina Machado	...	Sofia
Ajay Naidu	...	Deep
Jeffrey Tedmori	...	Ajay
Nick Sandow	...	Larry
Michael Mosley	...	Declin
Brooke Adams	...	Carolyn
Lindsey Kraft	...	Lauren
Sarita Choudhury	...	Sunny
Yolande Bavan	...	Naniji
Isabella Rossellini	...	Greta Bollenbecker

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for some sexual content and brief strong language.

Runtime:

90 min

Country:

UK | USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

SDDS | Dolby Digital | DTS

Certification:

USA:PG-13 | Ireland:12A | Australia:PG | UK:12A | Netherlands:AL | Finland:K-3 | South Korea:15 | Mexico:B | Philippines:PG-13 (MTRCB) | Argentina:13

Filming Locations:

Engine 312 - 22-63 35th Street, Astoria, Queens, New York City, New York, USA

Company:

Blumhouse Productions

Trivia:

Jeffrey Dean Morgan portrays a firefighter on this movie. He made a previous appearance in "ER: The Crossing (#7.15)" (2001) as a firefighter that lost his leg during a rescue on train wreck.

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: When Patrick and the Kid hacker decide to "marry" Bratton to Dr. Emma via manipulation of records, we can see on his computer that the title on the screen showing these records is spelled incorrectly. The title reads "VITAL STATISTICS / Marriage Registery", when it should be "Registry".

Quotes:

[from trailer]
Patrick: [with a mouth full of sample wedding cake] This cake is fantastic!
Emma: Shh. Please...
Patrick: You mix these two together, it tastes just like a ring-ding.
Emma: [Patrick shoves a fork of cake in her face] No. No, no.
Patrick: Ah!
Emma: No.
Patrick: Ah!
Emma: [she accepts the forkful of cake] it was yummy.
Patrick: It's super-duper.

Soundtrack:

Ever Fallen In Love

Silly, overwrought, and seen many times before, only better

I'm beginning to think that if Colin Firth is in it, it'll be another big budget, mediocre, cliché. He's cooked more turkeys than Thanksgiving. It is difficult to understand how actors of such ability as Uma Thurman showed in "Hysterical Blindness") and Colin Firth (once showed in "Another Country" and "Valmont") can sink this low unless they're overdrawn at the bank and needed the money to feed their kids. The plot is ridiculous. If this were a screwball comedy, the plot devices could be forgiven, but we are supposed to believe that there are keen insights on love to be gleaned. I used to admire Griffin Dunne for his intellectual approach. Now I'm wondering, who's kidding whom? Yuck. This movie is one cringe after another.