Kissing Cousins (film)

Kissing Cousins
Kissing Cousins
Directed by	Amyn Kaderali
Written by	Amyn Kaderali
Produced by	Manish Goyal; Rahul Haria; Amyn Kaderali
Starring	Samrat Chakrabarti; Rebecca Hazlewood; Lauren Stamile
Cinematography	Alison Kelly
Edited by	Nadia Fugazza
Music by	Timo Chen
Release date	March 11, 2008;
Running time	98 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Kissing Cousins is a 2008 American romantic comedy film starring Samrat Chakrabarti and Rebecca Hazlewood. This film is about a relationship terminator who falls for his cousin.

Plot

Amir is an Indian American professional heartbreaker (people hire him to break up with their boyfriend/girlfriend when they don't want to do it themselves). At Amir's 30th birthday party, his childhood friend Charlie announces that he is getting married, but he and his fiancé decide they don't want Amir to be the best man because of his bad "relationship karma". This depresses him, as do the relationship advice books he receives as gifts. Amir goes to visit his family for Thanksgiving and meets Zara, his attractive British cousin, who he hasn't seen in twenty years. Amir's mother persuades him to take Zara back to her home in Southern California, since she is in the United States traveling.

Zara decides to help Amir's relationship karma by claiming she is his girlfriend. While she is visiting, Zara also helps Amir be more compassionate when terminating people's relationships. After a Christmas party where they drink too much and are forced to kiss under the mistletoe, they go back to Amir's apartment and have drunken sex, which they regret, but Amir thinks that he has fallen in love with Zara. Zara doesn't feel the same. When they go back to Amir's family home for Christmas, it is revealed that Zara ran away from her British boyfriend after he proposed at the Grand Canyon, and her boyfriend is staying with Amir's family while he looks for her. After Christmas, Amir returns to Los Angeles alone. At Charlie's wedding on New Year's Eve, Amir & Zara (who stops by on her way to the airport) reveal to Amir's friends that they are cousins. At the reception after the wedding, Amir and Bridget, the single woman in their group of friends, realize they could be more than friends and decide to start dating.

Cast

Samrat Chakrabarti as Amir
Rebecca Hazlewood as Zara
Jaleel White as Antwone
Rachael C. Smith as Bridget
P.J. Byrne as Tucker
Nikki McCauley as Tina
Amy Rider as Toyoka
Lauren Stamile as Liza
Gerry Bednob as Mr. K
Brian Lynn Graham as "Spider", The Biker
Elina Madison as Stacy, The Meter Maid

References

External links

Kissing Cousins at IMDb
Kissing Cousins at AllMovie
Kissing Cousins at the TCM Movie Database
Rebecca Hazlewood takes lead role in American film, AIM magazine, May 10, 2006

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