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  • noun film Short for romantic comedy.

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Examples

  • My 5-year-old started kindergarten the same week as the release of the movie "One Day," which the Christian Science Monitor described as a "rom-com weepie."

    Mallory McDuff, Ph.D.: One Day: Faith, Fate And The Climate Ph.D. Mallory McDuff 2011

  • My 5-year-old started kindergarten the same week as the release of the movie "One Day," which the Christian Science Monitor described as a "rom-com weepie."

    Mallory McDuff, Ph.D.: One Day: Faith, Fate And The Climate Ph.D. Mallory McDuff 2011

  • My 5-year-old started kindergarten the same week as the release of the movie "One Day," which the Christian Science Monitor described as a "rom-com weepie."

    Mallory McDuff, Ph.D.: One Day: Faith, Fate And The Climate Ph.D. Mallory McDuff 2011

  • The Basinger-Baldwin love affair began with a rocking Star Wagon (sometimes hers, sometimes his) on the Disney lot, and it gave birth, in the fullness of time, to a flaccid rom-com called The Marrying Man, but what everyone remembers about the film are the sexual interludes enjoyed, with impressive frequency, by the two principals and the hauteur with which they treated everyone else on the set.

    The Passion of Alec Baldwin 2009

  • While the typical rom-com rests on the "'Will they or won't they?" sexual tension of the leads, Free Agents has already answered that query.

    4 Reasons Why Free Agents Is an Anti-Romantic Comedy 2011

  • With the encouragement of Wire star Idris Elba and Richard Curtis, the rom-com king, he has written two scripts, one a "comedy caper whodunit fun movie in the vein of Judd Apatow's movies" which is close to securing financing.

    Reggie Yates: spinning lots of plates - and discs 2011

  • This is followed by the premiere of the underwhelming rom-com Perfect Couples.

    Matt's Picks: January 17-20 2011

  • The Grammy winner just released a much-discussed CD, and the Oscar nominee -- checking ..... yes, has a new rom-com out next month.

    Love, etc.: Shia LaBeouf and Carey Mulligan are over; Taylor Swift and Jake Gyllenhaal are... something The Reliable Source 2010

  • Mr. Lowe is still fairly proud of his early work, which includes the 1986 film "About Last Night...," a rom-com based on a David Mamet play headed for a reported remake.

    Lowe Lends Hand Mike Vilensky 2011

  • The Basinger-Baldwin love affair began with a rocking Star Wagon (sometimes hers, sometimes his) on the Disney lot, and it gave birth, in the fullness of time, to a flaccid rom-com called The Marrying Man, but what everyone remembers about the film are the sexual interludes enjoyed, with impressive frequency, by the two principals and the hauteur with which they treated everyone else on the set.

    The Passion of Alec Baldwin 2009

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