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 rom-com from director Tina Ghavari and screenwriter Justine Waddell is an adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s novel Night and Day.
—Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 20 Apr. 2026
Upcoming, he’ll be seen in Ruben Östlund’s A24 pic The Entertainment System Is Down, Searchlight’s Sweetsick opposite Cate Blanchett and Spike Fearn, Will Sharpe’s rom-com series Prodigies for Apple TV, and the thriller Maya for Channel 4.
—Matt Grobar, Deadline, 20 Apr. 2026
Smith’s play falls into the rom-com subgenre of screwball comedy, a satirical take on romance that was popular from the 1930s through the 1950s.
—Emily McClanathan, Chicago Tribune, 17 Apr. 2026
The Julia Roberts and George Clooney helmed rom-com Ticket to Paradise (2022) made $168 million on a $60 million budget.
—Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 16 Apr. 2026
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Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 20 Apr. 2026
Upcoming, he’ll be seen in Ruben Östlund’s A24 pic The Entertainment System Is Down, Searchlight’s Sweetsick opposite Cate Blanchett and Spike Fearn, Will Sharpe’s rom-com series Prodigies for Apple TV, and the thriller Maya for Channel 4.
—Matt Grobar, Deadline, 20 Apr. 2026
Smith’s play falls into the rom-com subgenre of screwball comedy, a satirical take on romance that was popular from the 1930s through the 1950s.
—Emily McClanathan, Chicago Tribune, 17 Apr. 2026
The Julia Roberts and George Clooney helmed rom-com Ticket to Paradise (2022) made $168 million on a $60 million budget.
—Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 16 Apr. 2026
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“Rom-com.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rom-com. Accessed 22 Apr. 2026.
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