Romantic Comedies

Forgetting Sarah Marshall

Directed by: Nicholas Stoller
Production company: Apatow Productions
Distribution company: Universal Pictures

50 First dates

Directed by: Peter Segal
Production company: Happy Madison
Distribution company: Columbia Pictures

Mr Deeds

Directed by: Steven Brill
Production company: Happy Madison
Distribution company: New Line Cinema

Good Luck Chuck

Directed by: Mark Helfrich
Production company:
Distribution company: Lionsgate

Love Actually

Directed by: Richard Curtis
Production company:
Distribution company: Universal Pictures

Romantic comedies

Romantic comedies sometimes romcom’s are films with a humorous plotline centred around two people, usually a man and woman who in someway are connected in someway which would normally results in a happy ending with the two protagonists having a romantic relationship. The comical aspect of a romantic comedy makes it different to a normal romance film because it makes the viewers laugh about the situations the characters get themselves into but then the audiences also get the romance side of the film, a romantic comedy. Sometime romantic comedies are associated as chick flicks.

Narratives (the kinds of stories)
A relationship that grows over the film.
A relationship where the two protagonists break up, which then results in the two characters getting back together.
A relationship that cannot work for some reason but one of the characters finds a way to solve the problem.

Stock characters
Man
Woman

Iconography
Kissing
Sex
Dating
Conflict

Audience
usually women of any age, but because of the comedy aspects to the film they also appeal to men.

Films
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
50 first dates
Mr Deeds
Good Luck Chuck
Love Actually