Oh boy this one is gonna get me into so much trouble and that too a helluva different kinds of troubles. Lets list them out

1. The guys would actually laugh behind my back (only to begin with after which it would be pretty blatant and they would be laughing to my face) for actually watching this movie.
2. Anyone of you who has bothered to google this movie and its reviews would immediately start wagging (deliberate use of this term here instead of shaking) their heads left and right and left and right immediately trashing my opinion.
3. The others who usually respect my opinion would seriously consider visiting a shrink to make sure there is nothing wrong with them.
But alas! I have to stand by the oath I solemnly took over the pint of beer when I launched this blog to share my true opinion about every movie and not try and blend in the crowd if I think differently. In short to be the guy who raises his hand and says “sorry but I didn’t get the joke this time”.
This “trying to cover my posterior” kind of verbiage of a preamble done here is the movie’s vital stats
Title: The Accidental Husband
Director: Griffin Dunne
Starring: Uma Thurman, Colin Firth, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Sam Shepard, Isabella Rossellini
Length: 91 minutes

Let us do what I do in the beginning, summarize the movie in one word (oh Lord save me now) – Fun!
Yup I thought it was a funny movie that is well directed enough to make sure you do not get bored or feel drawn during the course of the movie. The script is predictable but offers some very nice respites in the way it adopts Indian culture as a part of the movie by weaving certain key movie events around certain important Indian rituals and not merely treat the Indian touch as a side statement. The actors have been good, with the exception of Uma Thurman who does all right and the lots of Indian people involved who for some insane reason have been forced to do the most horrific Indian accentuated English that I have come across in real or reel life. Why! Why do these idiotic directors must portray the Indian people as a race that has only just realized that it is not actually 2000 BC but is 2000 AD instead and a race that is now desperately trying to catch up? Stop it you idiotic, moronic, and all such word-ic directors!


Plot: Emma Loyd (Uma Thurman) is a radio agony aunt who dispersive advise over radio waves faster than a vending machine anywhere in this world. During one such calls she takes over the radio she ends up breaking the future wedding of Patrick (Jeffery Dean Morgan) and his sweetheart. Incidentally Patrick was tuned in with a bunch of mates to the radio station when Loyd was dishing out her advise and hears the whole thing. Desperately trying to make Loyd realize the evil of her acts he ropes in a friend who lives on the floor beneath his (by the way did I mention that Patrick lives on a floor that is above an Indian Restaurant called “The Samosa Palace”?) and who is computer nerd. This friend hacks into NYC state records and marries Emma Loyd to Patrick!
Now the thing is that Ema Loyd is about to get married to our serious, immaculately perfect to the letter British boy Richard(Colin Firth). When Richard and Ema go to the city house to get their records done, they find out about this marriage between Ema and Patrick! Ema must now trace this “mysterious accidental husband” by the name of Patrick and get this weeding annulled so she can marry Richard. And then we all know what happens, they meet, they each have an agenda but they start falling for each other and so on.....


My psychobabble: Having summarized the plot above, I seriously do believe (and pity me as much as you must you psychopathic judgemental “somekindof” hole) that the movie is worth a watch. Yes the plot is too predictable, yes the story is not that good but then hey how many movies actually do come up with a different story eh? I mean count all the Jurrassic Parks, and some freak UFO hitting earth (for which they always somehow manage to find USA) or some freak mega ultra huge monster dropping his saliva and excreting all over the planet determined to kill the human race God knows why (again somehow it ends up in the USA!) kind of movies and the number would probably go up in hundreds of thousands! Why then cry murder over a good old fashioned romantic comedy!?

The movie is average but funny. The cinema theatre was almost full and people were laughing out loud and actually clapping during the course of the movie. The Indian touches are awesome. I wont go too literary here but think of the Indian touch like a maestro’s blending of the colours of dawn around a vista of rising sun. These colours though might not be the central theme of the portrayal but without them the picture would lose its breath. Jeffery Dean Morgan easily slides into his character of easy going chilled out built for the job kind of neighbourhood fireman and Colin Firth as always is brilliant in his role. Uma Thurman was a bit disappointing, her age shows clearly beneath the coats of foundation and make up. The Indian characters could have done without the accent.
Verdict: Not better than The Bank Job but certainly better than The Vantage Point in my honest opinion. If you are someone like yours truly who is determined enough to make his own opinion even when the whole world is yelling otherwise, do go and give this movie a shot. If you try even with a small fraction of your will to enjoy this movie, you will not be disappointed, just like I wasn’t even though I went to watch this after reading all the reviews on the net that actually have trashed this movie!