The Accidental Husband: 2012

Tuesday, 11 December 2012

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Uma plays EMMA, a successful relationship expert with a radio talk show engaged to the equally conservative and predictable RICHARD a publishing executive. DR. EMMA’s theories on relationships and love gets turned inside out when she and RICHARD go to get a marriage license, only to find out that she is “accidentally” married to Patrick Sullivan.Download The Accidental Husband Full movie Torrents

The Accidental Husband Movie Review

The Accidental Husband, it was literally all I could do.Yeah, I know that is a harsh statement to make, but it is, undeniably, the truth. And before all the Uma fans in the world rush off to get a knife to castrate me with, allow me to defend my position because I’m certain you’ll agree with me by the end of the review. There are three major flaws to this romantic comedy:A boring, poorly written premise. First time writers Mimi Hare, Clare Naylor and Bonnie Sikowitz really show their inexperience. The plot of The Accidental Husband is very uneven and “unfun”. Romantic comedies are about light-heartedness and uncomplicated characters that you can, or at least want to, relate with on some level. Here, Thurman’s character of Dr. Emma Lloyd is a pretentious snob, who believes the coupling advice she spits out on her radio show is beyond reproach. Screw her and her high horse. Her fiancé, Richard (Firth) is a cardboard cutout. He exhibits absolutely no emotion when faced with the very real possibility that his soon-to-be wife may be dipping into the cookie jar before their marriage. Weak, he deserves to get shit on. Then there is Patrick (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), the man we’re supposed to care about since he was wronged by the good doctor’s advice (his fiancee dumped him because of it). Initially you’d like to see him exact his revenge – he creates a marriage license which shows he’s married to Emma – but after awhile you realize he’s a complete nitwit and his cute smile wears thin shortly thereafter.

That problem is exacerbated further by the poor casting. Maybe, just maybe, with different leads the outcome would have been better (although I highly doubt it). As it stands now everyone appears lost and out of place. Uma does appear the part of the uptight, high society bitch, but this role ultimately degrades into an imbecile, whose laughs come from slipping and banging her head into tables and doors. Uma Thurman is a lot of things but a physical comedienne really isn’t one of them (although she didn’t do that bad of a job at it in My Super Ex-Girlfriend). Colin Firth is too good of an actor to be relegated to a role with zero substance. His time spent on camera appears to be used solely to showcase the different types of grimaces he could muster before his face began to hurt. The only semi-high point is the casting of Jeffrey Dean Morgan as the strapping, none-to-smart NYC firefighter. The role is about the look and not so much about anything else, so putting him in it served the purpose well enough.The third stab in the ass comes from the combination of the first two – there is no chemistry between any of the lead actors. From my viewpoint, I couldn’t see Emma spending the rest of her life with either of her two suitors. And for a romantic comedy to excel, the tit-for-tat banter between star-crossed lovers is supposed to be sharp and filled with sexual innuendos. You’re not going to find any fo that in The Accidental Husband. Everything they say to one another is contrived and there isn’t an ounce of natural angst in their voices. Hell, halfway through the film I wanted them all to live out their years lonely and despondent.

The Accidental Husband Movie Cast

The Accidental Husband is a American romantic comedy film directed by Griffin Dunne, and starring Uma Thurman, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Colin Firth, Isabella Rossellini, and Sam Shepard.

Colin Firth---Richard Braxton

Isabella Rossellini---Mrs. Greta Bollenbecker

Uma Thurman --- Dr. Emma Lloyd

Jeffrey Dean Morgan --- Patrick Sullivan

Brooke Adams --- Carolyn

Michael Mosley --- Declan

Ajay Naidu --- Deep

Kristina Klebe --- Katerina Bollenbecker

Lindsay Sloane--- Marcy

Justina Machado--- Sofia

Sarita Choudhury --- Sunday

Keir Dullea--- Karl Bollenbecker

Sam Shepard---Wilder