Not a formula rom com


Did anyone actually kiss in the film?

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No, not a single kiss...not even holding hands or similar. The most "brutal" scene is when he is waking up in the morning and finds the girl (no.1) in his bed, too. He is absolutely surprised and practically runs away - I can see now, why :-)

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It's more of a mid-life crisis comedy

I thought it was reasonably good too.

I thought JK Simmons and Alison Janney were seriously underused though

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Good for them! I am sick of seeing every darn film with blatant sex just for the amusement and audience appreciation. I saw another movie recently that didn't have sex (premarital) and I also appreciated that. Good for them...

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There was premarital sex in the rewrite, betwixt Hugh Grant and that girl "Karen." It ust didn't show it. It was implied.

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Definitely passes the Bechdel test!

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Only just- the conversations between women are extremely brief:

-the two women Grant pitches his script to at the start (where one of them says nothing at all and the other only speaks to Grant),
-the restaurant scene where Tomei's checking Karen's ID (but this fails the Bechdel Test because they are effectively discussing the romantic interest)
-the three students in the fast food place (but ditto the romantic lead and Karen only says one line to her friends))
-and the Cheese & Wine do, but none of the women speak to each other.

There are just two actual conversations women have with each other in the film: between Sarah & Andrea when they argue about Disney (it lasts 20secs), and the Prof and the student discussing her essay (it lasts 30secs). But there are many more conversations -and several deep and lengthy ones- between JKSimmons, Chris Elliott & Grant.

So yeah, on those 50 seconds this RomCom passes the Bechdel Test.

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