''Love Accidentally'' is a 2022 American

romantic comedy Romantic comedy (also known as romcom or rom-com) is a subgenre of comedy and slice of life fiction, focusing on lighthearted, humorous plot lines centered on romantic ideas, such as how true love is able to surmount most obstacles. In a typica ...

film written by Robert Dean Klein, directed by Peter Sullivan, and starring Brenda Song and

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. It was released on Amazon Freevee on July 15, 2022. The film received a generally negative response from critics.

Plot

Alexa and Jason are in the midst of a competition for the same promotion at their advertising firm, when each of their significant others breaks up with them. After Alexa accidentally sends Jason a brokenhearted text message, they start up an anonymous relationship through text and voice messages, unaware of who the other actually is.

Cast

* Brenda Song as Alexa *

as Jason * Denise Richards as Debra *

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as Craig * Brooke Newton as Hannah * Pedro Correa as Brad * Gib Gerard as Perry * Marc Anthony Samuel as Trey

Production

On April 13, 2022, it was announced that the film will be the first original movie released by Amazon Freevee, and that it would star Brenda Song,

, Denise Richards, and

Release

The film was released on Amazon Freevee on July 15, 2022.

Reception

Rotten Tomatoes Rotten Tomatoes is an American review-aggregation website for film and television. The company was launched in August 1998 by three undergraduate students at the University of California, Berkeley: Senh Duong, Patrick Y. Lee, and Stephen Wang ...

, the film holds an approval rating of 13% based on 8 reviews, with an average rating of 4/10. Radhika Menon of ''

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'' wrote, "It's cheesy, which isn't a fault on its own, but doesn't back itself up with the heart it thinks it's delivering", concluding that "the film under-uses Brenda Song." Ferdosa Abdi of ''

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'' rated it 1.5 stars out of 5, calling it "a flimsy story with poor chemistry."

References

External links

* {{IMDb title 2022 romantic comedy films 2022 films 2020s American films 2020s English-language films American romantic comedy films