Word: romanticizing
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The romantic comedy is a deceptively difficult beast.
Unless, like “The Holiday,” you make the most of the mistletoe you’ve been dealt and buck the romantic comedy curse.
It doesn’t take a Harvard degree to figure out what happens next. Writer and director Nancy Myers (“Father of the Bride”) employs every standard plot twist in the romantic-comedy game to prime us for the climactic life-change each woman is...
The familiar and practically obligatory scenes of any romantic comedy become endearing when they give us the accurate awkwardness of Iris and Miles’s first date, in which he attempts to make light of an “accidental boob graze,” and the hilarious spectacle...
It isn’t the material, but the proper execution of a fluffy film that matters, so casting is key—plus, it doesn’t hurt that Myers wrote the script with her leading actors in mind. Jude Law is an obvious choice as the romantic...