The Accidental Husband

If you are an avid listener of the so-called love or relationship experts on radio talk shows this film comes to tell you that you need not always door follow the advice they give you.

Dr Emma Lloyd (Uma Thurman) is host of a hit radio talk show giving advice to people whom she has never met. Unaware of the consequences of her advice she has made a big career out of her traditional opinion about love and is happily engaged to Richard Bratton (Colin Firth), a man who meets her show’s definition of a perfect partner.
However, the couple find themselves in a strange situation when they try to register their marriage.

Record shows that Emma has already been married to a guy named Patrick Sullivan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan)! So, she tracks Patrick down to make him say that there was some mistake in the records department. But soon, she gets involved in a messy love affair with the care-free Patrick.

A big question pops up in her heart, questioning her head just like those people she had given her advice to. Will she remain true to her dream of a perfect partner or rather go for the most unpredictable man she has fallen for? Complex decision to be taken here. The answer is a simple ‘No’.

The plot of the film ‘The Accidental Husband’ is so predictable that one can leave the theatre half an hour before the show ends. There is not much one can say except that it has a big star cast who do their best to stitch up the broken threads in the script. The film is also supposed to be a romantic comedy for its strange plot but there aren’t many laughter gigs for the audience to giggle and grind.

The only useful tip we get from the movie is that our very own RJs may have also been talking about love they see fit for others and not for themselves. Their do’s and don’ts in relationship never work all the time just like this romantic flick.
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English (A)
Cast: Uma Thurman, Colin Firth, Sam Shepard, Lindsay Sloane
Director: Griffin Dunne