That's where the rom-com comes in, that wayward genre of sweet serendipity and forgivably thin plots set to rising music …Vogue
One of the film's pleasures is its movie within a movie, the rom-com "I Love You, I Love New York." Tad Friend
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a silly rom-com plotDoes anybody cry funnier than Segel does in Forgetting Sarah Marshall, the wonderful rom-com farce he not only starred in but wrote? Jim Windolf