Accidental Love
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| Directed by | David O. Russell (as Stephen Greene) |
| Produced by |
Kia Jam Judd Payne Matthew Rhodes |
| Screenplay by | David O. Russell (as Stephen Greene) Kristin Gore Dave Jeser Matt Silverstein |
| Based on |
Sammy's Hill by Kristin Gore |
| Starring |
Jessica Biel Jake Gyllenhaal Catherine Keener James Marsden Tracy Morgan Paul Reubens Kurt Fuller James Brolin |
| Music by | John Swihart |
| Cinematography | Max Malkin |
| Edited by | Mark Bourgeois Robert K. Lambert |
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K. JAM Media
Persistent Entertainment Vocal Yokels |
| Distributed by | Millennium Entertainment |
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Running time
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100 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $26 million |
| Box office | $4,500 |
Accidental Love is a 2015 American comedy film directed by David O. Russell (under a pseudonym) and written by Russell, Kristin Gore, Dave Jeser, and Matt Silverstein, from Gore's novel Sammy's Hill. The film stars Jessica Biel, Jake Gyllenhaal, Catherine Keener, James Marsden, Tracy Morgan and James Brolin.
The story is about Alice, a small-town waitress who is accidentally shot in the head by a nail gun. Her lack of health insurance renders her unable to have the nail removed, leading to mood swings and hypersexual behavior as a result of brain damage. Alice then heads to Washington, DC to campaign for those with bizarre injuries, with the support of an unprincipled Congressman.
Production started in 2008 under the title Nailed, but filming was frequently halted due to financial difficulties, leading to Russell quitting the project in 2010. The film was completed without his involvement and Russell has since disowned it, the finished product credited to "Stephen Greene". The film was released on February 10, 2015, before a limited release on March 20, 2015 by Millennium Entertainment.Accidental Love was panned by critics.
Red Wagon Productions' Douglas Wick and Lucy Fisher first developed the property, hiring Kristin Gore—daughter of Al Gore—to adapt the screenplay based on her 2004 novel Sammy's Hill. In 2008, Russell was named the director of the film, then titled Nailed. Russell, Wick, and Fisher were reportedly promised a budget of $26 million by Capitol Films, a production company led by then-Hollywood newcomer David Bergstein.Principal photography began in April 2008. That month, James Caan dropped out of the film, after "creative differences" over his character's death scene. Production was shut down frequently—as many as 14 times—for nonpayment of the cast and crew, leading to walk-outs by stars Biel and Gyllenhaal as well as several crew members. Bergstein attributed the film's financial woes to the 2008 financial collapse, but the filmmakers believed they were being "intentionally squeezed." In a dispute over control of the film, and to prevent the possibility of Capitol releasing an unpolished version of the film, Wick and Fisher decided to withhold film negatives and postpone shooting the crucial sequence in which Biel's character is injured with a nail gun until the final day of filming. As a result of one of the unions eventually pulling support for the film with only two days left to shoot, the sequence was not shot and the film was left incomplete.
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