Film

Just Married

Name: Just Married
Genre: Romance, Comedy
Released: 2003
Cast: Ashton Kutcher, Brittany Murphy, Christian Kane, David Moscow, Monet Mazur

Romantic comedy
Comedy
Light-hearted
Relentless

A scrappy romantic comedy about a working-class guy and a rich girl whose whirlwind wedding leads to a honeymoon in Italy that goes catastrophically wrong. It's silly, physical, unambitious fun—the kind of film that knows exactly what it is and leans into chaos rather than trying to be clever. For people who want to watch attractive people suffer hilarious disasters.

TMDb rating

2.9

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