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{{trope}}
{{quote|''Law #2: Marry someone in the exact same field as you work in, if possible someone you work with. After all, it worked for "Mr. and Mrs. Smith," "Daredevil," and "The Splendiferous Zeppelin Escapades of [[Corpsing|"Filliam H. Muffman"]].''
|'''[[Colbert Report|Stephen Colbert]]''', "Stephen's Laws of Love"}}
For whatever reason, when married couples (or even just couples who are known for being together) make a movie, it rarely works. Who knows why? In some cases, it's public backlash against the couple. Sometimes the couple's real-life chemistry just doesn't show up on-screen (or it does, and it becomes somewhat unsettling when you realize you're watching an ''actual'' couple during a love scene.) Sometimes, it's just a vanity project with no real direction. In any case, even though Couple Bombs have a track record of not succeeding, they somehow still get made anyway.
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* ''[[Gigli]]'' is probably the most notorious example. Even though [[Jennifer Lopez]] and [[Ben Affleck]] weren't married at the time, they were ''the'' hot couple, and the movie is well known for being a total bomb. The movie was significantly rewritten during production to capitalize on their relationship.
** Rumors abound that [[Kevin Smith]] chopped most of Lopez's scenes out of ''Jersey Girl'' to avoid the same fate.
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* ''Dirty Love'', written by and starring Jenny McCarthy and directed by her then husband John Mallory Asher. They divorced shortly before it went down in flames.
* In 1959, [[Audrey Hepburn]] starred in ''Green Mansions'', directed by her then-husband Mel Ferrer. It was one of the least successful movies of her career.
* [[Richard Burton (actor)|Richard Burton]] and [[Elizabeth Taylor]] had a ''string'' of flops starting with the notorious ''[[Cleopatra]]'' (1963) and continuing on with ''The Sandpiper'' (1965), ''The Comedians'' (1967), ''Doctor Faustus'' (1967), ''Boom!'' (1968), and ''Hammersmith Is Out!'' (1972).
* ''[[The Marrying Man]]'' and ''[[Film/The Getaway|The Getaway]]'' ([[Alec Baldwin]] and [[Kim Basinger]]).
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