Rotten
Accidental Love is an utter mess, which is understandable given its troubled provenance. It's also fascinating.
Bilge Ebiri, New York Magazine/Vulture
Accidental Love
Sometimes you nail love. Sometimes it nails you.
2015 · 1h 41m · PG-13
Comedy, Romance
Directed by
David O. Russell
,
Stephen Greene
Overview
A small town waitress gets a nail accidentally lodged in her head causing unpredictable behavior that leads her to Washington, DC. Sparks fly when she meets a clueless young senator who takes up her cause - but what happens when love interferes with what you stand for?
Director and cast
- David O. Russell Director
- Stephen Greene Director
- Jessica Biel as Alice Eckle
- Jake Gyllenhaal as Howard Birdwell
- Catherine Keener as Pam Hendrickson
- James Marsden as Scott
- Tracy Morgan as Keyshawn
- Paul Reubens as Edwin
- James Brolin as Speaker Buck McCoy
- Beverly D'Angelo as Helen Eckle
- Kurt Fuller Cast
- Malinda Williams Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
9%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Forget the title. "Accidental Release" is more like it.
Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News
Rotten
Very bad medicine indeed.
Scott Foundas, Variety
Rotten
The race for the worst film of 2015 is officially on.
Chris Nashawaty, Entertainment Weekly
Rotten
Big, broad political satire is hard to pull off in the best of cases.
John DeFore, Hollywood Reporter
More films
Trick (1999)
Comedy · Romance · R
Gabriel is a young, aspiring musical composer whose life seems stuck in the First Act. When his new musical number gets a critical reception, a theatre colleague, Perry, tells Gabriel that he needs to get a life before he can write about one – so he heads straight for his local gay bar.
- Runtime
- 1h 29m
- Director
- Jim Fall
- Cast
- Christian Campbell, John Paul Pitoc, Tori Spelling
IMDb
7.2
Rotten Tomatoes
76%
The Other Side of the Bed (2002)
Drama · Romance · R
When Paula leaves her mate Pedro, he misses her and looks for comfort with his best friends, Javier and Sonia. Paula is having an affair with Javier. Pedro tries to find who is the secret lover of Paula, and hires a private eye. Meanwhile, while comforting Pedro, Sonia has a one night stand with him and Javier thinks she is cheating on...
- Runtime
- 1h 54m
- Director
- Emilio Martínez Lázaro
- Cast
- Ernesto Alterio, Paz Vega, Guillermo Toledo
IMDb
6.4
Rotten Tomatoes
49%
Metacritic
47
Tomcats (2001)
Comedy · Romance · R
College buddies chip in and promise that the group's last unmarried man will collect a cash pot. Seven years later, the kitty is worth $500,000 -- money Michael needs to pay a gambling debt. Problem is, the only other single guy is a hopeless womanizer!
- Runtime
- 1h 35m
- Director
- Gregory Poirier
- Cast
- Jerry O'Connell, Shannon Elizabeth, Jake Busey
IMDb
5.4
Rotten Tomatoes
14%
Metacritic
15
Made of Honor (2008)
Comedy · Romance · PG-13
Tom and Hannah have been platonic friends for 10 years. He's a serial dater, while she wants marriage but hasn't found Mr. Right. Just as Tom is starting to think that he is relationship material after all, Hannah gets engaged. When she asks Tom to be her 'maid' of honor, he reluctantly agrees just so he can attempt to stop the wedding...
- Runtime
- 1h 41m
- Director
- Paul Weiland
- Cast
- Patrick Dempsey, Michelle Monaghan, Kevin McKidd
IMDb
5.8
Rotten Tomatoes
15%
Metacritic
37
The Boys & Girls Guide to Getting Down (2007)
Comedy · R
Tongue-in-cheek look at 20-something singles clubbing and partying in L.A. Voice-over narration, charts and graphs, and visits to a research laboratory punctuate the story of a single night when groups of friends go out, drink alcohol, take drugs, dance and talk, and look for someone to go home with.
- Runtime
- 1h 32m
- Cast
- Cricket Leigh, Kat Turner, Steve Monroe
IMDb
6.6
Rotten Tomatoes
100%
Underground (2007)
Action · Not Rated
In the UK suburbs, an underground tournament is set to challenge twelve fighters from different backgrounds to compete for the price of £500,000. They have been handpicked for a no-holds barred competition that will push each fighter to their limit. Each fighter has their own reason for competing, and each will give everything they've ...
- Runtime
- 1h 35m
- Director
- Chee Keong Cheung
- Cast
- Mark Strange, Nathan Lewis, Joey Ansah
IMDb
4.2
Bodyguard: A New Beginning (2008)
Action · Drama · Thriller · R
Leung is the bodyguard of a Chinese Triad boss, Wong, to whom his loyalty is unrivaled. Living in Hong Kong, Wong requests that his bodyguard travel to the UK to protect a young British woman, whose true identity is known only by Wong himself. Even Wong's son, Yuen, is kept in the dark, which leads to a betrayal that threatens to destr...
- Runtime
- 1h 35m
- Director
- Chee Keong Cheung
- Cast
- Vincent Sze Cho-Lam, Richard Ng Yiu-Hon, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
IMDb
4.5
Comments
Talk about the film with other members