plural rom-coms
: romantic comedy
That's where the rom-com comes in, that wayward genre of sweet serendipity and forgivably thin plots set to rising music …—
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VogueOne of the film's pleasures is its movie within a movie, the rom-com "I Love You, I Love New York."—Tad Friend
—often used before another nounTad Frienda silly rom-com plot
Does anybody cry funnier than Segel does in Forgetting Sarah Marshall, the wonderful rom-com farce he not only starred in but wrote?—Jim Windolf
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The Big Sick Year: 2017 Runtime: 2h Director: Michael Showalter
The wonderful screenwriters Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon basically told their own love story in this sweet and funny rom-com that Amazon picked up after audiences fell for it at Sundance.
—Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 8 Jan. 2025
In the wake of starring in the near $1.5 billion-grossing Top Gun: Maverick, Powell resurrected the rom-com on the big screen with Sydney Sweeney with last Christmas’ Anyone But You, which grossed $220.3M worldwide and was a profitable hit for Sony netting $103M after all ancillaries.
—Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 7 Jan. 2025
Jonsson is best known to fans as the face of Peckham-set rom-com Rye Lane as well as the Andy in Fede Alvarez’s sci-fi/horror installment Alien: Romulus, set between the events of Ridley Scott’s original and James Cameron’s sequel.
—Lily Ford, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Jan. 2025
Amy Sussman/Getty Images Adam Brody was Golden Globe nominated for his Netflix rom-com series Nobody Wants This in the Best Actor category, up against Jason Segel, Jeremy Allen White, Martin Short, Steve Martin, and Ted Danson.
—Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 6 Jan. 2025
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Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 8 Jan. 2025
In the wake of starring in the near $1.5 billion-grossing Top Gun: Maverick, Powell resurrected the rom-com on the big screen with Sydney Sweeney with last Christmas’ Anyone But You, which grossed $220.3M worldwide and was a profitable hit for Sony netting $103M after all ancillaries.
—Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 7 Jan. 2025
Jonsson is best known to fans as the face of Peckham-set rom-com Rye Lane as well as the Andy in Fede Alvarez’s sci-fi/horror installment Alien: Romulus, set between the events of Ridley Scott’s original and James Cameron’s sequel.
—Lily Ford, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Jan. 2025
Amy Sussman/Getty Images Adam Brody was Golden Globe nominated for his Netflix rom-com series Nobody Wants This in the Best Actor category, up against Jason Segel, Jeremy Allen White, Martin Short, Steve Martin, and Ted Danson.
—Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 6 Jan. 2025
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“Rom-com.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rom-com. Accessed 18 Jan. 2025.
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