The Accidental Husband

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Doctor, heal thyself! That’s the wry message underscoring the charming romantic comedy The Accidental Husband, which features Uma Thurman as Emma, a radio “love doctor” who can’t quite seem to manage her own love life off the air. The cast is splendid, led by Thurman, who has rarely gotten to show her comic chops, and who really is very funny and has a gift for physical comedy as well. The two bachelors whose lives are accidentally (on purpose?) entangled with hers are played by two dreamboats, Jeffrey Dean Morgan (rugged firefighter Patrick) and Colin Firth (her fiancé, Richard). The chemistry between Emma and both suitors is crackling and captured well on film by director Griffin Dunne. Thurman, Morgan, and Firth are joined by a supporting cast every bit as spot-on as they are: Sam Shepard, Brooke Adams, Isabella Rossellini, Sarita Choudhury, and Keir Dullea, each of whom brings his or her own quirks and charms. The Accidental Husband is very much in the mode of Four Weddings and a Funeral and the Bridget Jones films–which is to say, make a date with it for your next date night. –A.T. Hurley

Product Description

When New York’s most practical-minded “love doctor” convinces a caller to break off her engagement, the caller’s unpredictable ex-fiancé decides to get even. Creating a fake marriage license, he “accidentally” weds himself to the doctor, setting into motion a wildly unpredictable romance that neither ever expected to find.