Taglines: Welcome to the honeymoon from hell.
Just Married starts off with Tom and Sarah in the airport. When Tom Leezak is back again to the radio, he reminisces and tells all of the details from the day they first met to back to the airport. Tom Leezak (Ashton Kutcher) and Sarah McNerney (Brittany Murphy) meet up when Tom accidentally hits Sarah with a football. A few months later, despite opposition from Sarah’s rich, uptight family they get married.
However they each have a secret that they want to keep from each other: Tom doesn’t want Sarah to know that he accidentally killed her dog and Sarah doesn’t want Tom to know she slept with Peter Prentiss (Christian Kane), a family friend. Tom and Sarah decide to honeymoon at a classy hotel at the foot of the Alps. On their way there, they attempt to join the mile high club, but fail when the captain turns on the fasten seat belt sign and they are forced to go back to their seats.
They arrive at the hotel and discover that Tom’s friend Kyle left them a present: the Thunderstick A-200, which is a sex toy. Tom tries to plug the toy in the socket, but the plug isn’t built for a European outlet and he shuts down the entire village’s electricity when he tries to force it in. The newlyweds leave the hotel after Tom has a heated argument with the hotel owner.
While trying to find another hotel they crash and get buried under a heap of snow, but they are able to climb out in the morning. Eventually, they get a ride from a truck driver and end up staying at a pensione in Venice. The pensione turns out to be very bad, and they soon check out after Tom discovers a cockroach on his neck while the couple are attempting to make love.
The couple manage to secure a nice hotel with the financial help of Sarah’s father, who demands that Tom pay the money back as soon as he can. The next day they go sightseeing in Venice, but Tom quickly gets bored and the couple decide to split up for the day: Tom going to the bar to watch sports and his wife continuing to see Venice. Sarah realizes that Peter is staying at her hotel.
This prompts her to initiate a conversation with Tom in which he reveals that he accidentally killed her dog and she reveals she slept with Peter Prentiss. The couple storm out of the hotel and each go their separate ways: Tom going to the bar, where he meets a girl, and Sarah going sightseeing again, where she meets Peter. The girl begins to flirt with Tom and the two end up dancing. When Tom realizes she wants to have sex with him, he makes an excuse and escapes through the toilet window. He goes back to the hotel, only to find out that Sarah is with Peter.
This prompts him to go back to the bar, where he meets the girl again, and the girl clearly wants to have sex with him. Tom tries to think of a clever way to get out of this and agrees to walk with the girl to her hotel. Except the girl tricks Tom into revealing his hotel, and in a desperate attempt to go to bed with him, falsely says she’s at the same hotel. She tricks Tom again at the hotel and says she’s lost her key and needs to call the front desk, Tom all the while trying to avoid this situation. Once in Tom and Sarah’s room, the girl rips off her top and bra and tries to have sex with Tom. Tom is doing everything possible to get away. And, as she is mounting him and trying to make out with him, Tom blurts out that he’s on his honeymoon, and the girl finally leaves.
Just Married is an American romantic comedy film directed by Shawn Levy, and was written by Sam Harper, and starring Ashton Kutcher and Brittany Murphy. Produced by Robert Simonds, the film opened to #1 at the box office and stayed in the top 10 for four weeks, going on to gross $56,127,162 domestically and $101,564,935 worldwide.
Just Married was highly successful at the box office. On a modest budget of $18 million, the film went on to gross $56,127,162 domestically and earned an additional $45,437,773 in foreign box office receipts, giving it a total worldwide gross of $101,564,935, and launching the film career of Ashton Kutcher.
Though successful at the box office, Just Married was released to generally negative critical reviews with a score of 19% “Rotten” from Rotten Tomatoes. Two out of five stars from MSN, and 28 out of 100 from Metacritic.
The film earned three Razzie Award nominations including Worst Actor (Ashton Kutcher), Worst Supporting Actress (Brittany Murphy) and Worst Screen Couple (Kutcher and Murphy), but failed to win in each of these categories.
Just Married (2003)
Directed by: Shawn Levy
Starring: Ashton Kutcher, Brittany Murphy, Christian Kane, David Moscow, David Moscow, Monet Mazur, Thad Luckinbill, Valeria Andrews, David Agranov, Massimo Schina
Screenplay by: Sam Harper
Production Design by: Nina Ruscio
Cinematography by: Jonathan Brown
Film Editing by: Scott Hill, Don Zimmerman
Costume Design by: Debra McGuire
Set Decoration by: K.C. Fox
Art Direction by: Troy Sizemore
Music by: Christophe Beck
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for sexual content, some crude humor and a brief drug reference.
Distributed by: 20th Century Fox
Release Date: January 10. 2003
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