Jackson Booth-Millard All I knew about this film was the leading actress, I was certainly intrigued by the meaning of the title, it was rated pretty low by critics, but I was willing to try it anyway, directed by Griffin Dunne (Practical Magic). Basically Dr. Emmeline "Emma" Lloyd (Uma Thurman, also producing) is a famed love expert with a hit radio show, she has made a career advising listeners with her sensible, mature and responsible approach to relationships. One day, she gets a call from Sophia (Final Destination 2's Justina Machado) who wants advice regarding her insecurities about her upcoming marriage to firefighter Patrick Sullivan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), Emma tells her she should break off the engagement, and she does. Patrick listened to this conversation on the radio and is so upset, then he hears that Emma herself is getting married, Emma is engaged to perfect- gentleman Richard (Colin Firth), Patrick visits his young neighbour Ajay (Jeffrey Tedmori) who has an idea that will help Patrick get his own back. Ajay is a hacker, and is able to hack into the public records and create a fake marriage certificate between Patrick and Emma, Patrick allows this, so when Emma and Richard go the public records office to get a marriage license, Emma is shocked to be told that she is married already to a man she has never met. With the wedding coming up, Emma must now find the mystery "accidental" husband and get an annulment, she tracks down Patrick, he just goes along with the ruse that he knows nothing about this incident either, and he is able to get her away when she gets drunk. Things get more complicated when Emma tries to ask Patrick to sign annulment papers again, and she turns up at an event, with Frau Greta Bollenbecker (Isabella Rossellini) attending, she assumes Emma is his fiancé, Patrick is unable to fess up. With the annulment not finalised, there is much tension between Emma and Patrick, due to their opposite approaches, but slowly Emma starts to admire Patrick for his carefree lifestyle, and she begins to doubt her conservative opinions on life and love. Emma does finally get the annulment papers finalised, and the wedding with Richard is all set to go ahead, but she has grown to have feelings for Patrick, they make love, but then she finds out about what Patrick did to teach her lesson regarding his previous engagement, she is angry and leaves him. It comes to the wedding day, but Emma cannot help but still have feelings for Patrick, even Richard knows that she no longer has the same passion for him as she did previously, they amicably break up. In the end, Emma creates a fire to set off the alarm at the venue, both to get rid of the guests, and to get the fire service, specifically for Patrick to show up, in the end Emma and Patrick embrace their true feelings for each other, and a year later they are married, for real, and she is pregnant with their child. Also starring Sam Shepard as Wilder, Keir Dullea as Mr. Bollenbecker, Justina Machado as Sofia, Sarita Choudhury as Sunny and Lindsay Sloane as Marcy. Thurman both acting and producing tries her best to make something worthwhile, but fails, Dean Morgan is okay, and Firth is just in it for his stiff-upper-lip, it is sort of an original story, but done in a very predictable way, the attempted jokes don't work, and the love story is not completely believable, overall it's a bit of a boring romantic comedy. Adequate!

finkenberg61 I watched this film because of the cast and director. How bad could it be. Colin Firth, Sam Shepard, Isabella Rossellini, Uma Thurman and Kier Dullea. It was so bad that I was going to turn it off. Everything is bad about this film. The acting of Dean Morgan Jeffrey (whatever his name it or who he is), Uma Thurman, Colin Firth. The direction of Griffin Dunne - horrible. The music - bad, Colin Firth suits - looks like they come from KMart (sorry for the insult KMart). Just skip this. An atrocity. Finally, who would chose the creepy fireman over Colin Firth? I was embarrassed for the actors and myself to watch them say the lines they were given to read. I hope the actors got their payday and that I didn't pay to watch this in a theater. I would have demanded a refund. That bad and not exaggeration.

Prismark10 A romantic comedy with a slight Bollywood twist more for the fact that it features Indian characters in a more three dimensional way which is something Hollywood does not do often enough.Patrick Sullivan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) a firefighter wants to teach radio host and love counsellor Dr Emma Lloyd (Uma Thurman) a lesson when she unwittingly got his fiancé to break up with him. Sullivan gets his neighbour Ajay to hack into the public record office and gets him married to Lloyd which causes consternation to her as he plans to get married to her perfect man Richard (Colin Firth.)Lloyd meets up with the more rough, ready but happy go lucky Sullivan for an annulment but slowly both fall for each other due to some mixed up scenarios.The film has enough of an unusual setting, some good charm between the two leads to make it work even though its slightly contrived. Colin Firth is rather wasted in a difficult spike in the wheel role, but I guess its one of the last rom-com's he made before his best actor Oscar win. Look out for support from some veteran character actors.

Jay CG I watched this movie today on a DVD and was happily surprised.Its a typical Hollywood comedy with a boll y wood touch.The reason for which this movie title has so many Spoilers is probably because of the mix of cultures.And,people could'not accept it. Things I liked about the movie: *It was not predictable where you expect it to be(pardon the climax,its a Hollywood movie & sweet ending is in the rule book). *There were many hit and miss comedies in this movie but Ajay Naidu was as great as ever. *Jeffrey Dean Morgan & Thurman's characters were less motivated but realistic. *Finally the back ground score.........ooh it was awesome & perfectly synced with the situation(at least for me,it made my day completely light) actually when the end titles showed up for a moment I thought there was some problem in the audio of the DVD because of the "Swasame" song.The movie is not as good as any signature Hollywood ROM-comes like, Proposal,Knocked up etc., but it was watchable & definitely funny.