The Accidental Husband is a 2008 American romantic comedy film directed by Griffin Dunne and starring Uma Thurman, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Colin Firth, Isabella Rossellini, and Sam Shepard.

The film was written by Mimi Hare, Clare Naylor and Bonnie Sikowitz, and was produced by Jennifer Todd, Jason Blum, and Uma Thurman.

The film follows a New York City fireman who seeks revenge against a popular dating expert for her role in ending his engagement with his fiancée.

Patrick Sullivan is looking forward to a life with Sophia, until she calls into the radio show hosted by famed love expert Dr. Emma Lloyd.

Greta later comes to Emma's book launch because her husband Herr Karl Bollenbecker is planning to liquidate Richard's publishing house.

Suddenly Patrick flashes his New York City Fire Department badge and asks the other occupants to leave the elevator.

Not released theatrically in the United States and Canada, The Accidental Husband grossed $22.7 million at the box office in other territories.

She grins, mugs and capers like a whippet on crack," that "there's an awful hint of the non-chemistry of its actors in the poster," and "100% of me wants it [capital punishment] for 100% of people involved in this romcom.

"[9] Critic Anthony Quinn wrote in The Independent that "Even taking into account the dismal pedigree of director Griffin Dunne [...] and writer Bonnie Sikowitz, one could hardly have predicted this shocker" with "a plot of insufferable silliness," and noted that "none of it [is] helped by Thurman's thoroughly phony performance.

"[10] In their review of the film for the BBC, Stella Papamichael described the film as a "hopelessly convoluted comedy," that "Morgan (supposedly the hero) gives us few reasons to care about his lonely existence [with] all the personality of chopped liver," that "Thurman resorts to falling over and repeatedly bumping her head to get a laugh," and "with such a half-hearted script and Griffin Dunne's casual direction, these attempts to inject screwball energy end up feeling more like desperate cries for help.

"None of it works: the inexplicable alchemy between co-stars that can seduce the audience even in an indifferent rom-com doesn't arise between Thurman and Morgan.