The April Fools

The April Fools

He has a wife. She has a husband. With so much in common they just have to fall in love.

196995 min5.9 / 10

A romantic comedy about two unhappily married strangers who form an unexpected connection during a single night in New York, caught between attraction and the complications of their real lives.

Newly-promoted if none too happily married Howard Brubaker leaves a rowdy company party early with the stunning Catherine, whom it turns out is herself unhappily married — to the boss. They spend an innocent night in New York becoming more and more attracted to each other, so that when Catherine announces she intends to leave her husband and return to Paris, Howard asks to go along too.

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