Word: romanticizes
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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TIME: Romantic comedies generally hinge on a simple device--will they or won't they? So how do you make them different?
RICHARD: I didn't know when I was writing Four Weddings and a Funeral that I was writing a romantic comedy. In some ways, the answer is to fight the genre. My favorite romantic film is An Officer and a Gentleman.
EMMA: Not Some Like It Hot? I find that so romantic.
RICHARD: Tony Curtis is in love with Jack Lemmon. What's romantic?
A Prime Minister (Hugh Grant) rattles lonesomely around 10 Downing Street, mooning over his pretty tea lady (Martine McCutcheon). A trashed rocker (Bill Nighy, in a great comic turn) tries to find his old adoring audience with a ghastly Christmas song. A cuckolded writer (Colin Firth) falls in love with...