Dry clean that little black dress. It's wedding season at the movies.

October delivered a remake of "The Heartbreak Kid" featuring Ben Stiller as a longtime bachelor who marries and repents in haste. Late December brought "Margot at the Wedding," although there was a chance of no wedding once Margot entered the picture.

On Friday, "27 Dresses" arrives with Katherine Heigl ("Grey's Anatomy," "Knocked Up") as a woman who's been a bridesmaid 27 times and needs a copy of that old self-help book, "When I Say No, I Feel Guilty." Playing her younger sister is none other than Malin Akerman, who rushed into marrying Stiller in "Heartbreak Kid."

On Feb. 1, "Over Her Dead Body" will feature "Desperate Housewives" star Eva Longoria as a woman who is killed in an accident on her wedding day. Serves her right for fussing over an ice sculpture -- it was an angel, but without wings, and it didn't fly with her.

In the comedy, Longoria is about to marry Paul Rudd. Their characters spend so little time together it's impossible to know if they have chemistry, but if they were a high school science experiment, there would be no smoke, steam or sizzle in the beaker.

Walking into the Carmike theater at South Hills Village this weekend to see "The Orphanage," I couldn't help but notice the cardboard stand-up for "The Accidental Husband."

Directed by Griffin Dunne, it stars Uma Thurman as a successful but uptight relationship expert with a hit radio show and book. Thurman is pictured on the stand-up in a wedding gown, falling through the sky.

She thinks she's met her perfect match in a publishing executive, played by Colin Firth. But, lo and behold, it turns out she may be married to a neighborhood fireman, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, most recently a charming Irishman in "P.S. I Love You" and doomed patient Denny Duquette on "Grey's Anatomy."

I'm not sure how you have an "accidental husband," although the preview indicates it involves hacking into a vital statistics Web site as an act of revenge. Unless the trailer is misleading, you can see exactly where this accident is headed. The movie, from the Yari Film Group, is scheduled to open in March.

Commercial conundrum

How many commercials are you willing to sit through before a movie?

For the heck of it, I made a list of the ones before "The Orphanage" and they advertised: E! red-carpet coverage; Chrysler's Town & Country; Mucinex, an over-the-counter medication; an anti-drug message and Web site called abovetheinfluence.com; the U.S. Marines; Coca-Cola; and Carmike's digital projection system.

A half-dozen movie previews, from "Rambo" to "27 Dresses," then followed, which meant the 1:45 p.m. movie started at roughly 2:05 p.m.

Like-minded moviegoers

A while back, a reader e-mailed a question that left me stumped: "Do you happen to know if there are any 'movie buff' organizations out there? I love all kinds of movies and find that I don't have many friends who share my love of films. I'm looking for a way to meet others who share my taste in movies."

I know there are classes or occasional discussion groups at libraries and, sometimes, at Pittsburgh Filmmakers' venues but I don't know of any group that meets on a regular basis. Suggestions anyone?