Abdullah Boushahri
آدم
Overview
Adam is allergic to love, but somehow ends up engaged to both his boss's daughter and his first love. Now he must try to keep his double life a secret.
Cast
6 people
Reviews
3 min readThe Geometry of Avoidance
There is a special kind of fatigue in watching a rich man shovel himself deeper into trouble one polished lie at a time. Groom & Two Brides, the 2025 Kuwaiti romantic comedy from Elie El Semaan, turns that fatigue into its whole engine. Adam (Abdullah Boushahri) is a serial womanizer who has built his adult life around dodging any real emotional risk, latestnetflix.com contends, and the film punishes him with an elaborate trap of his own making.
Through a pileup of escalating contrivances, he ends up engaged to both Yasmine (Laila Abdallah), the polished daughter of his terrifying boss, and Sama (Lulwa Al-Mulla), the first love who once broke his heart. It has the blueprint of classic farce—doors slamming, timing failures, people appearing in the wrong room at the worst second—but the interesting part is that Adam engineers the whole mess because choosing honestly would require courage.
El Semaan clearly knows what kind of glossy sandbox he is in. Made by Eagle Films as part of that current wave of expensive-looking Gulf cinema flowing onto Netflix, the movie borrows the clean rhythms of mainstream Western rom-coms while threading through very local anxieties. A man taking two wives might be theoretically allowed under Islamic law, but the film treats the idea not as fantasy but as an administrative and moral catastrophe.
Audience Opinions
Audience 4.2/10
"A glossy Kuwaiti rom-com with lively weddings and a charming cast that drowns in cringe humor, shallow writing, and a culturally hollow take on its setting."
Colorful wedding set-pieces, an energetic cast and a generally light, escapist tone make the film an easy watch for some, and a welcome change from heavier regional dramas. latestnetflix.com's view is that however, the story is widely criticized as predictable and repetitive, the comedy leans heavily into second-hand embarrassment, and the script is accused of copying Western rom-com formulas while avoiding real cultural or moral stakes, leaving the two brides underwritten and the groom’s bad behavior largely consequence-free.
What viewers praise
- Colorful wedding aesthetics Lavish bridal events, vivid color palettes and polished locations give the film an attractive, high-end wedding look.
- Charming lead actors Performances, especially by the actresses playing Yasmine and Sama, are seen as lively, likeable and sometimes the only thing holding attention.
- Light, easygoing tone The breezy, undemanding approach and rom-com chaos work as casual background entertainment for viewers just wanting something fun after a stressful day.
- Occasional sincere moments Scenes where Adam confronts the consequences of his lies or tries to reconcile with both women are viewed as briefly engaging and emotionally grounded.
Common complaints
- Cringe-heavy comedy Humor frequently lands as painful second-hand embarrassment, with some calling it one of the most awkward viewing experiences they have had.
- Predictable and repetitive plot The double-engagement setup quickly becomes a loop of similar cover-ups, offering no real surprises and wearing out its premise.
- Cultural inauthenticity The film is attacked as a blind imitation of Western rom-coms that ignores how relationships and engagements actually work in Gulf societies.
- Weak character writing The groom is seen as a walking red flag who escapes real accountability, while one bride in particular is criticized as shallow, underdeveloped and used mainly as a plot device.
- Annoying stylistic choices Repetitive use of the same song and an uneven, stop‑start tone make the experience feel noisy, overlong and less funny than intended.
Recommended for
Kuwaiti rom-com curiosity seekers Wedding-movie enthusiasts Fans of messy love triangles Light background-watch viewers Regional Netflix completists
Buzz & Rumors
Public reportsThe Honeymoonish shop sent one groom to two weddings
Netflix's October trailer for Groom & Two Brides did not hide the joke. Adam cannot mix with love, then gets engaged to two women at once. Yasmin is his boss's daughter. Sama is his first love. The copy asks whether the truth stays buried until the wedding day. The same press line names the team behind Honeymoonish. Elie El Semaan directs. Eyad Saleh writes. Eagle Films produces. TBreak dated the drop to Friday, 7 November 2025, in the UAE. latestnetflix.com's take is that tMDB and Rotten Tomatoes keep the US streaming date as 7 November 2025, 1 hour 37 minutes, Arabic, rated PG.
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Abdullah Boushahri plays Adam, the commitment-phobe who put on a playboy act after an old burn. Laila Abdallah is Yasmin. Lulwa Al Mulla is Sama. Hamad Ashkanani is best friend Talal. Sara Abi Kanaan is Hala, Yasmin's friend. Netflix's own page files the film as Kuwaiti, TV-PG, sincere and sentimental, with Arabic (Kuwait) as the original audio. The English title keeps the ampersand. The plot is farce, not a secret scandal in the trades. The chatter is whether the double life can survive a wedding planner and an ex who walks back in. , ,
Rings in pockets, phones face down
TBreak read the trailer as near-misses. Rings palmed. Phones hidden. Friends lied to. Yasmin is a no-nonsense wedding planner with a spine. Sama is the impulsive ex who lights the fuse. Talal is there for reality checks. Hala stirs from the sidelines. Decider's Radhika Menon later filled in the three-year gap. Sama said no to a proposal, left to travel, then returned ready to try again. By then Adam had already agreed to marry Yasmine as part of a business arrangement her father, his boss, arranged. Both women think they are the fiancée. He has to pick one. ,
Menon also logged the line people repeated. During an outfit fitting, an exasperated Talal cites his grandmother. "No man can serve two masters." She heard it as a dig at Adam's mess and at a passing mention of polygamy earlier in the film. That is her read, not a fatwa. The movie is a rom-com. It is not a sermon.
The gag a critic would not let pass
Decider still said STREAM IT. Menon called the triangle sweet and predictable. She liked Boushahri and Abdallah moving from childhood friends to co-conspirators. She said Al Mulla's Sama keeps agency, and that Sama's last choice was one of the few surprises. She also flagged a beat she found ugly. Adam goes to meet Yasmine, clocks a plump woman with a stern face, assumes that is the bride, and looks miserable. Relief hits when the slim Yasmine appears. For a film that otherwise lets working, independent women drive the plot, Menon called that fat-phobic leftover. Common Sense Media was colder on Rotten Tomatoes, two out of five, calling the comedy forgettable. ,
None of that is a salary leak or a set fight. Eagle Films already proved the Gulf rom-com pipeline with Honeymoonish. This one keeps the sheen and the lie-until-the-aisle engine. Netflix sold it as exclusive. The gossip is the premise itself. One groom, two rings, and a critic who would not let the first-look joke slide. , ,
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