The Accidental Husband

Falling in love. Even the expert is confused

FILMING DATES : 13 November 2006 - April 2007

RELEASE INFORMATION:

UK... 13 February 2008 (London) (premiere)

UK... 29 February 2008

France... 27 August 2008

Greece... 4 September 2008

Netherlands... 4 September 2008

Russia... 11 September 2008

Israel... 2 October 2008

India... 10 October 2008

Norway... 17 October 2008

Belgium... 5 November 2008

Germany... 13 November 2008

South Korea... 12 March 2009

Mexico... 3 April 2009

Finland... 17 April 2009

Argentina... 26 April 2009 (Buenos Aires) (premiere)

Argentina... 30 April 2009

Phillipines... 20 May 2009

Iceland... 27 May 2009 (DVD premiere)

Peru... 28 May 2009

Portugal... 4 June 2009

Chile... 18 June 2009

Kuwait... 25 June 2009

Czech Republic... 23 July 2009

Brazil... 21 August 2009


RUN TIME: Movie - 80 ½ minutes Credits 5 ½ minutes	AKA: Marido por Acaso – Brazil Marito di troppo, Un – Italy Syzygos... kata lathos – Greece Tuplamorsian – Finland Un mari de trop – France Zufällig verheiratet – Germany

FILMING LOCATIONS: Manhattan, New York City, NY, USA Queens, New York City, NY, USA First Church of Round Hill, Greenwich, CT, USA Greenwich, CT, USA Astoria, New York, USA

DIRECTOR: Griffin Dunne	WRITER: Kristen Buckley, Mimi Hare, Clare Naylor, Brian Regan
PRODUCER: Jason Blum, Uma Thurman, Jennifer Todd, Suzanne Todd, Bob Yari, Anthony Katagas,	CINEMATOGRAPHER: William Rexer

CAST: Uma Thurman... Emma Lloyd Jeffrey Dean Morgan... Patrick Sullivan Colin Firth... Richard Bratton Sam Shepherd... Wilder Lindsay Sloane... Marcy Justina Machado... Sofia Keir Dullea... Carl Bollenbecker Isabella Rossellini... Mrs. Bollenbecker Kristina Klebe... Katarina Bollenbecker Sarita Choudhury... Sunny Ajay Naidu... Deep Jeffrey Tedmori... Ajay Lindsay Kraft... Lauren Michael Mosley... Declin Ilana Levine... Autograph Seeker James Thomas Bligh... Head Waiter Michael McDerman... Cake Consultant Gary Cowling... Clerk Kelly Ebsary... Fan Sherman Alpert... Book Signing Party-goer Zeke Hawkins... Katerina's Fiance Rob Pedini... Soccer Player Hudson Cooper... Security guard # 2 Ben Hauck... Probie Adesola A Osakalumi... Didier Andrew Waldinger... Wedding Guest Jeremiah Caleb... Wedding Guest (uncredited) Jason Evans Lee... Wedding Guest (uncredited)	Production Companies Blumhouse Productions Team Todd Yari Film Group Distributors Blue Sky Media (2007) (Czech Republic) (all media) Aurum Producciones S. A. (2007) (Spain) (theatrical) Independent Films (2008) (Netherlands) (theatrical) Magna Pacific (2008) (Australia) (theatrical) Yari Film Group Releasing (2007) (USA) (theatrical)

Emma, a successful radio talk show host who's written a book on relationships, is about to have her life turned upside down after advising a female caller to cancel her wedding. While attempting to get a marriage license herself, she finds out she is already married. Embarking on a search for her alleged husband, she not only finds him, but falls in love with him. Things are not what they seem. Her "husband" is a sexy NYC fireman, who turns out to be Sofia's now ex-fiancé. Her advice on compatibility makes her question everything she ever believed in about love and ends up having to choose between her fiancé Richard and the sexy NYC fireman.

Reviews:
There weren't many positive reviews for this movie and the US release was cancelled when Yari Film's distribution division went bankrupt. Personally, I was never anxious to see this film from the day they started shooting in 2006. I have seen it, on Region 2 DVD, and all my fears were confirmed. However, I and some other gals on The Coliny forum were pleased (as ever) by Colin's performance and had a few thoughts we'd like to share.

Boring and embarrassing are the operative words for me. I only hope that Mr. Firth's agent was sharp enough to successfully negotiate upfront "Show me the money!" This movie is a colossal turkey, and I mean no disrespect here to those two legged creatures. "Gobble! Gobble! Gobble!" Loose translation: The Turkeys are insulted. There is no chemistry and I mean NONE between Mr. Firth and Ms. Thurman. For that matter, there is NO chemistry between Ms. Thurman and Mr. Morgan either. What a wasted cinematic project with an inanely bad plot, bad script, bad casting, and bad direction. The DVD did not need any bloopers as extras: There is the movie.

All that I can say in summary is this: "Mr. Firth, what were you thinking? Were you under some kind of contractual obligation to make this film?" Rhetorical questions both as I will never know the answers, but at least it gives me some comfort to think that he was forced to make this one.

Now, I'm not saying that this will make my top 10 favs, but from a purely
Colin perspective, I think he had a rather tricky part. They had to make him a viable lover, and a fool with an eating disorder, and an anal retentive expounding on shades of white while his romantic life was crashing around him. He was enormously sensitive to her moods and read her body language even when it defied her words. He fought for her in a very believable and committed way (soccer field scene, god, those jeans), He respected himself enough to tell her he loved her and wanted to be with her and still said he was not going to talk her into marrying him (a very fine dramatic line, I think), and then, dressed for his wedding to this insufferable bitch, clearly a statement that he hoped she would go through with it, he arrives with the unfiled annulment papers and let's her go because he wants her to be happy. Ok, so he grabs a couple of cookies on the way out. That is a very diverse role and the fact that we believe him at every level is a testimony to his wonderful talent. If he didn't sell every part of his character, the dramatic tension just wouldn't have played. His did. It was hers that didn't. I don't think she sold us on caring deeply about either of them and just la-dee-dahed her way through the whole revelation that fire-fighting wonder boy set her up to hurt her as he had been hurt.

Absolutely NO physical chemistry between Uma and Colin---and doesn't that just stretch one's imagination? One would have to search the world over to replicate that female or search for Heather Graham anyway.

I'd say equal to 'The English Patient' in the dumb and dumber finals, but certainly not a reflection on Colin 's delivery of a very tricky role

I have to say Colin's best scene is when he is at the soccer field in jeans and black jacket. Although............ he has a Colinblue shirt on near the end (you see him for a scant few seconds)

While Colin always does his role justice, I felt they wrote him (Richard) a bit schizoid. Like, from one scene to the next you couldn't really get a grasp on the guys real character, who he was and what he is/was really like.