The Accidental Husband is for dimwits

OUT OF DEPTH:The Accidental Husband a predictable rom-com where audience know what's going to happen.

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Cast: Uma Thurman, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Colin Firth

Director: Griffin Dunne

The Accidental Husband is like a bad Bollywood film; a predictable rom-com where the audience knows exactly what's going to happen before the characters in the film do.

Uma Thurman stars as Dr Emma Lloyd, a New York radio show host, who dispenses practical relationship advice to the lovelorn. When she advises one of her listeners to call off her wedding, the groom-to-be, Patrick (played by Jeffrey Dean Morgan), decides to give the doctor a taste of her own medicine by hacking into the City Hall database and altering her marital status.

When Emma and her publisher-fiancé Richard (played by Colin Firth) turn up to register their marriage, she's informed that she's already married. Shocked, she puts this down to a computer glitch, and decides to find Patrick to repair the error. But when she meets the New York fireman, sparks fly between the two.

This film is barely enjoyable because its plot is so contrived from the very word go. Even if you do decide to overlook the film's silliness, you can't get past the lousy acting.

Uma Thurman is completely out of her depth as the ditzy love-guru, and Colin Firth looks like he wandered onto the set of the wrong film, he's that out of place in this film. Jeffrey Dean Morgan is likeable in portions - he's got that goofy, endearing grin plastered on his face most of the time - but that's not enough to hide the film's many flaws.

There's so much stereotyping in this film, it's not even funny. Patrick lives above an Indian restaurant, which means there's a bunch of oddball Indian characters with bad accents, a traditional Indian thread ceremony, and of course the obligatory Bollywood song-and-dance routine.

It's not just the Indians who should be complaining. The film even throws in a German couple with the kind of clipped accents that you find in satires involving the Nazis.

To describe The Accidental Husband as a comedy is to suggest that the film makes you laugh. It doesn't.

You do smile though, when the end credits roll. With an AR Rahman-Tamil track playing over it. It's the only time you smile in this film.

So one out of five for The Accidental Husband. It's a film for dimwits, for those who really have neither taste nor common sense.

Rating: 1 / 5 (Poor)

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