How to Murder Your Wife

Stanley Ford is the epitome of carefree bachelor success: a famed cartoonist whose Bash Brannigan strip funds a lavish townhouse and a devoted valet. After a raucous stag night, he wakes to an impossible situation — he’s married to the stunning woman who famously popped out of the cake, a lively stranger who doesn’t speak English. The absurdity of the situation sets off a string of comic misunderstandings as Stanley confronts the sudden collapse of his perfectly ordered life.

What begins as frantic attempts to restore his bachelorhood slowly loosens into unexpected affection and self-reflection. Stanley even reshapes his comic creation from a dashing super-spy into a beleaguered husband, a change that mirrors the film’s sharp satire of gender roles and celebrity domesticity. Laced with farce, jealousy, and witty social commentary, the story balances screwball humor with a surprisingly tender look at how intimacy and responsibility can upend—and ultimately redefine—a man who thought he had everything.