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"Accidental Love" is a film which had HUGE production problems. The filmmakers ran out of money and the film sat for years. And, it was so famous for this that it was an entry in the book "The Greatest Films You'll Never See". Then, after being auctioned off years later, the film was completed...though many of the folks who had been working on the project refused to return to complete it! As a result, you have a movie that is, at times, a bit incomprehensible and confusing. Again, when you are trying to salvage a project, this isn't all that surprising.

What I DID find surprising were the reviews. Despite the weird way in which the film was completed, it was, at least in many parts, quite enjoyable....but there are quite a few reviewers that give it scores of 1 and talk as if it's the worst film ever made. Well, it simply isn't...or even close...to being the worst film. So why do so many attack the movie? Perhaps it's because the folks were angry about the film being in favor of national healthcare or the gay angle tossed into the story (completely out of the blue) towards the latter part of the movie. All I know is that I am guessing that folks hated it so much because of the film's message...which doesn't seem 100% fair. On the other hand, the film is at times so confusing and disjoint, I also couldn't understand a few reviews that gave the movie 10s and 9s. How could a film that took almost a decade to complete AND without all the crew and actors get a 9 or 10?! Both extremes seem unfair....and the truth is somewhere in the middle.

The first 30 minutes of the film (parts of which were added much later) worked very well. While you would think having a woman getting a nail shot into her head sounds unfunny, the whole thing was handled well and was funny. It was only when the afflicted woman went to Washington, DC, that things began to become confusing and, at times, kind of dumb. It's all a real shame, as there really was a germ of a great idea for this film...but after a while it just seemed to become incomprehensible and bizarre just for the sake of being bizarre. A mess...but a very interesting mess. Perhaps they should have just left this one on the shelf...though it was, occasionally, quite fun.

Budget:$26,000,000 (estimated) Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $24,487.

"You can't fix a brain with crazy ideas." Alice (Biel) has everything she wants in life. A job she loves and is good at, a loving family and a boyfriend who has just asked her to marry him. Right after the proposal a freak accident happens and she is shot in the head with a nail. With her life falling apart around her she sees Congressman Birdwell (Gyllenhaal) on the TV and thinks he is the answer to her problems. This movie is pretty much exactly what you would expect it to be. Funny in parts, pretty predictable, little generic but at the same time not a terrible movie. Every once in a while it's nice to just put a movie on without having to think about it and just enjoy yourself. This is that type of movie. There really isn't too much else to say about this one. I liked it enough, but wouldn't watch it again and nothing to rush and see, but I have seen worse. Overall, a generic, predictable movie that is a decent watch. A decent date movie. I give this a B-.

The most amazing thing about this nonsensical and terribly conceived film is how an actor who in the same year can play a riveting character in NightCrawler can sign on for this rubbish.

Other than seeing how well endowed Jessica Biel is, I can't think of many better moments. This is nothing more than a low grade TV movie based on an absurd premise...that a woman seriously injured in a restaurant by an employee would not have any medical care provided by the restaurant or any legal recourse.

From there the plot only gets worse in what evolves into a propaganda film promoting US health care legislation. While I support such legislation, I refute this film entirely. It's not a rom-com since it's not romantic or comic. The writing is juvenile in the extreme. The only guy with any decent lines was the versatile James Marsden.

Accidental Love is a train wreck of massive proportions, and don't let the movie poster fool you, this is a David O. Russell creation.

You know David O. Russell, the Academy Awards darling responsible for Jennifer Lawrence's prevalence? Well, Accidental Love is so bad he went the pseudonym route because he wants to wipe this project from any association with him.

Accidental Love is about a waitress from a small town in Indiana that gets a nail lodged in her brain and is unable to get it removed because she is without health insurance and doesn't have $150,000 laying around for the surgery. As with many head injuries, this nail causes unpredictable behavior like decreased inhibitions, anger, and speaking in tongues. Obviously not thinking straight, she heads to DC thinking government officials will help. While there she meets a freshman politician and sparks fly.

Typically directors claim lack of creative control and dip out before the film is complete, thereby maintaining their credibility as a director. Unfortunately, David O. Russell was associated with and filmed the totality of the scenes that are edited into this unfortunate endeavor, so this excuse doesn't quite apply. Even if the script went through several re-writes, the plot stayed consistent and the uninspiring and foolish approach is unexplainable. Accidental Love is so atrocious that it seems deliberate, an experiment, if you will.

Accidental Love is the Gigli of 2015 – it is that bad. It is almost like the film is supposed to be a bad dream for all those involved. There is no chemistry, no plausibility, no charm, no perspective. You can't help but cringe for the actors and writers at the dialogue and nonsensical progression of events. In production since 2008, there was absolutely no reason for any of this footage to see the light of day.

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It is hard to believe that a movie with so many well-known actors would do such a bad thing. Very bad over-acting movie. Too silly for my taste with really bar performances.

The wit and conceits are some of the best I've seen in a while. Super script. I loved it from the moment the swaggering trooper pulls up on his bike at the retro diner, his persona is written to a T. The engagement episode is to die for. Then the conceit of the nail, and the turn coat trooper.

I had to love it when the protagonist is told one side effect could be that she is likely to loose all kinds of inhibitions, which could be good when it came to making love.

Protagonist, "Maybe I can finally have an orgasm" Trooper quasi fiancé, "Honey that is so private. I already told you that 50 to 60 percent of women can't orgasm from intercourse." She, "What about you starting gentle like I asked, ant then taking it at an angle that I really like?" He,"Anyway, so..." So true.

The characters were all zany but believable. The politics were over the top with the right versus left: a moon army base station, versus a bill for catastrophic accidents health care like a nail in the head. It was all good irony and satire.

The making love scene in the rookie congressman's office was one of the best I have seen staged in a long time... nothing was shown but hands, legs, and things getting broken.

The aunt with her cigarette, and scalpel in hand, throwing back whiskey to steady the hands....too much.

I loved the fact that there was no profanity.Great actors. I loved everything about this. The dancing in the end was great. Actually watched it once while I was getting ready for work, belly laughing at some of the lines, certain ones subtle but significant if you listen up, then watched it again when I got home after dinner. Will watch it once more with my significant other. You watch it too. :)

There's a specific reason as to why this film Accidental Love (Nailed!) was never supposed to be released and why it had been released seven years from it's original filming date back from 2008. Released in early 2015, and one must note. A belatedly finished comedy released against David O'Russell's wishes (unknowingly he disavowed the unfinished film) which has been cobbled together by the new owner Millennium Films and he negotiated to take his name off the picture. The director credit now goes to Stephen Greene. The film is unfinished and it is clear as the editing looks sketch, as well as it is very unfunny, not great acting and overall forced. The comedy and plot plays out like a bad SNL skit with a plot that settles like a television show. There is a major reason why the lead actors have not mentioned or discussed this film and why it was not promoted during it's release.

Probably one of the worst movies i've ever seen. I don't see the point having such a casting to release that crap.

You'll notice, this movie follows an idiotic chain reaction based on an event and it's consequences. Consequences that could clearly not happen. OK OK i got it it's a satire but if it's designed to make people laugh or reach a king of irony, then it's not even good absurd humour but just cheap one.

I'm no USA Citizen and not English native speaker so i'm not directly concerned nor educated about congress and related subjects. Still this movie's meaning has been completely messed.

It's such a shame when bad movies happen to good people; this notoriously troubled production was incompetently written with no discernible direction; I wish we could've seen the movie Tracy Morgan thought he was acting in.

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This movie will pass a lot of people by because it requires political awareness and being smart enough to understand the themes behind the simple characters of the movie. I don't often write reviews but I really enjoyed this movie and found it to be an intelligent comedy with a particular focus on the US health care system. There is an array of talented actors on display playing some wacky characters. It's a disappointment to see the review scores so low but unfortunately the mainstream cinema goer and critics would much rather see a new brainless action movie. I've heard the film had some issues getting funded but I'm glad it got released. I highly recommend it - 8/10.

'ACCIDENTAL LOVE': Three and a Half Stars (Out of Five)

David O. Russell's abandoned labor of love, which was many years in the making, is this political satire film. The movie began production in 2008 and was halted multiple times, due to budget problems (a lot of the crew wasn't being paid). O. Russell quit the film in 2010 and has since disowned it. The filming was finished under a different director and O. Russell's credit in the movie has been changed to a pseudonym; Stephen Greene. Despite all this, the movie is still pretty clever, funny and very politically insightful. It was written by O. Russell (credited as Stephen Greene), Kristin Gore (Al Gore's daughter), Matthew Silverstein and Dave Jeser; it's also based on the 2004 novel 'Sammy's Hill', by Gore. The film stars an all-star cast including Jessica Biel, Jake Gyllenhaal, James Marsden, Catherine Keener, Tracy Morgan, Kurt Fuller, Paul Reubens, Kirstie Alley, Beverly D'Angelo, James Brolin and Bill Hader. It's an odd misfire of a movie, but I think it's definitely still worth seeing.

The story revolves around Alice Eckle (Biel); a waitress, in a small town, who is accidentally shot in the head, by a nail gun, one night while she's at dinner with her boyfriend, Scott (Marsden). Due to Alice lacking any insurance, doctors refuse to operate on her; and remove the nail. The nail causes her to act erratically though and if she doesn't come up with the money, to afford the $150,000 operation, it could kill her. After Scott dumps her, Alice decides to travel to Washington, with two friends (Fuller and Morgan), in an attempt to get healthcare reformed. In the process she falls for a naive congressman (Gyllenhaal), who sees Alice as good publicity for his own political causes.

The film is pretty funny and the actors all give it their all; Gyllenhaal and Marsden are especially hilarious. It's also a great commentary on how politics work (especially healthcare). Gore's story is brilliant and the movie is full of good intentions and a lot of heart. It could have been a truly great comedic masterpiece though, especially with this cast and O. Russell at the helm! As it is, it definitely seems like a slightly deformed 'mixed bag' of goofy slapstick and political satire. Watching it, definitely doesn't feel like you're watching a David O. Russell movie either! It still definitely has a lot of great moments though. I'm glad I watched it and I actually had a pretty good, fun, time doing so; despite all of it's flaws.

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This flick is so bad, so awful, so poorly edited, written, acted you can't even laugh at the awfulness of it. With the line up of names the viewer is just dumb struck because this movie is just so awful.

Director David O. Russell and Writers Kristin Gore, Matthew Silverstein must have had nails hammered into their head to write and direct this embarrassment of bad movie. How does director Russell make a marvelous film like 'American Hustle' and then make this trash? Did he have a nail in his head? And Jake Gyllenhaal --- was he drugged or maybe threatened into this garbage?

If anyone wants to see a text book bad movie this is it! Their makeup is not consistent, the backgrounds are not consistent, the only consistency in this crap is the awfulness!

This is somehow a black comedy with over-the-top situations and acting, with a mild, to-late-for-that lampoon about politics and government.

It is an expensive film. 26 millions are too much for what it really is.

The style it reminds movies from other decades. You even got Pee-wee Hermann in a secondary yet prominent role.

PLOT: It's about a young waitress who has a freaky accident that changed her life. She can't have health care and travels to Washington with some other mishaps to pass a health-care bill, only to realize the true face of politics.

Well, it is less than it sounds. The movie fails to feel big in that manner. The cast is OK and is doing its best to work with the weird script and material. Jessica Biel looks good and you can admire James Marsden's and Jake Gyllenhaal's effort to give life to their awkward characters. Tracy Morgan is also in this showing his lack of comedic talent, trying to deliver some deadpan oneliners.

There is song and a dance at the end that is somehow entertaining. You can fast forward to that.

What on Earth is a nice actress like Jessica Biel doing in a repulsive and down right lousy film like this.

I'm not saying she's ever had much like in terms of film roles (Summer Catch anyone?) but surely she deserves better than to have to ride out this load of rubbish.

I can certainly see why it sat on the shelf for a period of years because I don't imagine anyone was particularly proud of the results, or audiences particularly keen to see it.

It's pretty terrible, Biel manages to remain charming and good in it, but oh dear- what a waste of talent and creative energy on a project that should never have been made.

At their favourite restaurant, the handsome local cop, Scott (James Marsden) has planned to propose to his gal, Alice Eckel (Jessica Biel), a waitress at a local 50s themed diner. But after an accident with a nail gun, Alice is left with a nail embedded in the top of her skull and into her brain. It turns out that she is doesn't have medical cover and must live with the nail in her head, which alters her moods from manic to depressed and nymphomania. Scott eventually breaks up with her, but inspired by an advert on TV, Alice goes to Washington DC to lobby a young and ambitious junior congressman (Jake Gyllenhaal) to help fight for broadening medicaid and free healthcare for all Americans.

As well intentioned as this film is to provide a biting satire on the healthcare system in America, the end result is a hot mess. And that would be an understatement, even for such a quirky director as David O. Russell (who here has probably wisely changed his name to Stephen Greene). Russell had previously made such interesting satires as THREE KINGS (1999), I HEART HUCKABEES (2004) and AMERICAN HUSTLE (2013). Shooting for this film began in 2008, was left incomplete until 2013 when it was shelved and then completed and released in 2015 and the time it took to make perhaps goes someway to explain the mess. It does make you wonder - could she just not have sued the restaurant for damages?

I love ROM comes and I'm just looking for one that I don't own or seen. I love the cast. The writing was terrible. And too quirky it has two off the wall. It needs to be a little bit believable. I like that it dealt with the time period that it did cute music. And actually the the lines weren't bad it's just the story was done by somebody that was like on drugs like Alice in Wonderland so it's just a little too much for me . So if you're looking for a good one this isn't it. Well it's requiring that I write more in order to leave this review so I'm using up my words but I pretty much said it I wouldn't waste your time.

Seeing usually awesomely talented actors, perform in a film, movie, or television, that not only doesn't fit their talents, but also, is poorly written, kind of sucks!

I'm sure that Everyone has had roles, that they wish they hadn't done, Or were in movies, or films that weren't what they, or anyone thought, the film would turn out to be,...but just like, Most of us, we learn from "mistakes,"... And We move on,....usually learning a valuable lesson, from our choices, and perhaps, "failures!" I bet that Jessica, Jake, James Marsden, Catherine Keener, and the (Still Gorgeous, at almost 84 years young!), James Brolin, were happy to do this movie together, All great actors, but they probably should have Read the script, first!!

In "Accidental Love," Unless the actors were "hard-up," for $$,...I'm Sure, that they All learned a good lesson, before moving on!!

When this movie was being filmed, and it focused in D. C., how could Anyone have known, that Our Beautiful Democracy, and in 2014,...that Our Awesome Constitution, would be threatened, and as reprehensibly, and Disgracefully, Threatened, by a rancid, demented POS, (since, November 2016),... Most Especially, since the Loss in November 3rd, 2020,...and attempted coup,... and insurrection,... on January 6, 2021!!

Tho Jake Gyllenhaal's character, who is described as; "A Clueless politician," is scarily "Comedic!" Especially compared to, and considering, the; Evil, Lying, Demented, Brainless, "Clueless," Egomaniacal, treasonous, traitorous, Lying, Cheating, Rapist,... who performed an attempted coup,... and insurrection, to "stay in power!!" Not to mention, all of the "Help," he has received, from the Disturbing, disgraceful, All Bigoted, Mostly Hateful, anti-Semitic, anti-LGBTQ, anti-humanity Cult!!

His Ignorant, and Disgracefully, and Woefully Uneducated, Jailed, douche-bag-Idiots, who helped, and Still cheer on, the POS,... will be witnesses, To our 250th birthday, on July 4, 2026,... from behind bars,... as their "dear leader," Hopelessly, continues to try to, become our Beautiful Democracy's first, authoritarian, Dictator, and Try to take over the world, Now,...10 years after this strange movie was made!!! Who'd-a-"thunk,"-it!?!"

I am not a Biel fan and David is hit or miss admit it real cinema watchers! Jake did a great job as he always does in any role. I despise the one note Tracy Morgan and still enjoyed this movie. This move for all the making of drama it has, is after all a black comedy hit in my opinion. I hope this becomes a cult hit so it gives Hollywood the FU! I thought it had elements of Drop Dead Gorgeous, Troop Beverly HIlls, Legally Blonde 2, sure many political humour movies can fit in there!

The actors may regret the role now but shouldn't, they had to have known it was never to be a masterpiece. "Tell us about the tragedy of your gayness" - 1:04:44 in the movie,I laughed so hard! All these people mad about it having health care in it, suck it! This is based on a book subject, is something the USA still needs improvement on,therefore its relevant in any form for cinema. If you ever get your crap together USA this movie will be even funnier. All will be,Why were we such tools, pun intended, What took us so long?! Considering Dumb Dumber Too and latest Transformers gets you spending your money FULL PRICE, whiners on this thread board need to rate/ judge fairly! 6/10

Wow this is a bad one! I haven't seen too many of David O. Russells movies but the ones I've seen I liked, so I was surprised at how bad this movie was.

I know finding a movie funny or not is a very personal thing. Everyone has a different sense of humour, we don't all laugh at the same things. So all I can say is that I personally didn't laugh a single time during this film. The acting was also off. It was as if the characters had to be kooky and weird in a funny way, but it looked as if the acting was kooky and weird. The characters where neither lovable, understandable or interesting.

The whole movie was unintentionally weird and strange, not funny or interesting. It left a bad taste in my mouth.

This movie is between parody and satire. It is showing politicians as shallow turncoats that are after their needs and caprices.

I guess bunch of people did not like representation of congress in this way but it is almost correct.

Nice bunch of actors. Jessica Biel beautiful as ever. Kids were great with viral in the movie.

Movie is better critic on Health care that Michael Moore's "Sicko".

Nice movie for relaxing and fun, even better if you are tired of politicians. This is one great comedy with serious message.

People will be people.

Well guys, I'm afraid that what I stated in the title is just plain truth. I watched the film (and I enjoyed it too) and then I realized that all I did was watching Jessica Biel and thinking that she was really pretty.

Athletic, radiant, with a beautiful smile and a sweet voice, she did more than just stealing the scene: she monopolized my attention. And the movie seemed just an excuse to make her act and let the audience enjoy.

The film, on the other hand, was not too bad: I'm sure that (unless you are 6 or this was your first film) you have already seen something like this but the Authors however strove to enrich the plot with funny and original situations and the production was excellent (great director, great actors, great staff).

I kind of get the feeling that this whole movie was made to emphasize the state of the medical health situation in America, and how people who need care won't get it because they simply cannot afford it. Which is a real shame, considering how much money gets funnelled out of healthcare to investors in drug companies and insurance companies. And of course, it's all going on with the consent of every politician because they get kickbacks from those industries on a regular basis. This is the kind of thing that you really need to suspend your sense of reality while watching. So, sure, it's watchable, but just barely. You won't have any difficulty doing something else while watching the movie. One dimensional characters, poor comedy, the screenplay is so bad that you can't tell if the acting is any good because the lines suck so bad. It's just not that interesting. Basically a 'B' movie that you have playing in, oh, a waiting room or somewhere where there's nothing else to watch. A notch above reality TV. But that's about it.