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Uma Thurman appears to be refusing to age in her latest movie, The Accidental Husband – but it looks a bit like Robert Downey Jr has aged and changed his name to Jeffrey Dean Morgan! This is another silly little rom-com but promises to ooze the kind of charm we’ve come to expect from English gold like Notting Hill rather than the usual uber-schmultzy (how do we feel about a German-Yiddish pairing?!) American cheese.
The plot as far as anyone can tell from this trailer is seriously confusing. But then, getting an Accidental Husband is probably a relatively confusing premise. Maybe it’s just that the deep-voiced hype-inducing narrator has his sentences broken up by 10 second bits of dialogue in the movie, or maybe it’s the montage (we need a montage) effect, or maybe it’s the convoluted comedy of errors that is really more complex than a trailer can handle. Nevertheless, blonde Uma bumbling about and falling into the arms of a fireman – recently romanticised even more as the classic American hero after 9/11 – looks like a decent watch.
And of course everyone loves an elevator kiss, especially when a fireman has been misusing his authority for mischievous ends! On the other hand, does anyone really believe a fireman hosing down his fire engine is likely to turn around in shock when a woman says a polite “excuse me” and be so taken aback that he hoses her down? This is serious Hollywood, white-shirted nonsense.
Had they called this film The Love Doctor, we would have expected Mike Myers or maybe Eddie Murphy in yet another horrendously unfunny comedic offering. But The Accidental Husband, whilst marking itself out as firmly in chick flick territory, leaves itself a little more open to being taken semi-seriously than Uma’s stupid radio show alias. Whether it will be a classic – like Four Weddings and a Funeral – or a forgettable box-office flop – like Tom Hanks’ You’ve Got Mail… only time and popcorn sales will tell.
Credits: Directed by: Griffin Dunne. Writing credits: Mimi Hare, Clare Naylor, Bonnie Sikowitz. Cast: Uma Thurman as Dr. Emma Lloyd. Colin Firth as Richard Bratton. Jeffrey Dean Morgan as Patrick Sullivan. Sam Shepard as Wilder. Lindsay Sloane as Marcy. Justina Machado as Sofia. Keir Dullea as Karl Bollenbecker
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Most of us assume that any Hollywood film we see is the result of long and careful planning (bar anything with Hillary Duff), but Accidental Husband, Uma Therman’s latest offering, makes this hard to believe. It’s much easier to imagine a room full of execs reaching into a series of hats and plucking out setting, character and gimmick at random. So, for this particular romantic comedy, we’ve been given, by ‘accident’, the following ingredients: New York, Fireman, Doctor and radio presenter (what is her job anyway?), and some sort of internet marriage. I’m sure the focus groups loved it.
Still, it can’t be all bad. Uma Thurman will be doing her best Sarah Jessica Parker impression, lecturing and surrendering by turns, and Jeffrey Dean Morgan will be pretending he’s a heart throb, not the nightmarish spawn of Robert De Niro and Kevin James (that fat guy in Hitch). No doubt there will be some reprehensible puns on ‘fire’ and endless jokes about ladders, fire engines, and hoses. The title seems cheery enough; Accidental Husband is better than, say, Accidental Mother (see Knocked Up), or accidental Toby Macguire (see Spiderman). And, let’s not forget, it doesn’t have Susan Sarandon in it.
More than anything, you can’t deny you’re not a little bit curious to find out how one gets an accidental husband (and a fireman at that!), and at least you know there will be one marriage by the end of the movie. As far as chick flicks (or films for ladies) go, it’s a pretty sure bet.
So, if by some happy accident you find yourself at the cinema, and if, just by chance, you’re in the mood for some A grade sap love story, do see Accidental Husband. You may even accidentally enjoy it.