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 | Talk Radio | Fireman | Indian | Drunkenness

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 | Singapore:NC-16 | Portugal:M/12

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:

Continuity: When Richard and Emma are sitting on the bed near the start of the movie and he has just brought in some takeaway coffee, the coffee cups disappear and reappear during the scene, or change from being side-by-side to one being inside the other.

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:

THENALI(TAMIL)

It's a romantic comedy for God's Sake!

These days Hollywood is either going Kung Fu or Bollywood. This romantic comedy chooses the latter so here's another Holly Bolly hoo. Like it's predecessors The Guru, The Love Guru, Bride and Prejudice and even a wee bit of the Indian culture in Ghost World.

An outraged man Patrick Sullivan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) set himself out to teach the love counselor Dr. Emma Llyod (Uma Thurman) a lesson when she unknowingly influenced his fiancé to break up their wedding plans. But as you would have it, in the world of Hollywood romance they'd ultimately fall for each other despite the fact that the good doctor doesn't believe in the man of her dreams but the man of her reality and that she herself was about to be married. Colin Firth plays her beau but is lost in his wimpish, awkward world and it's nice to see the gorgeous and elegant Isabella Rosellini again with other veteran stars like Brookes Adams and Sam Shepard.

Morgan seems to be the guy who gets other people's girl in the end even in P.S. I Love You, I wonder what his third romantic comedy would be like. There's some elements of Down With Love but not enough to make it memorable.

You have to watch this movie with no expectations, no analytical mind and no preconceptions before you can enjoy the laughter and foolishness of being in love without reservations.