2019 · comedy · fantasy · romance
Isn't It Romantic
Directed by Todd Strauss-Schulson1h 28m2019
For a long time, Natalie, an Australian architect living in New York City, had always believed that what she had seen in rom-coms is all fantasy. But after thwarting a mugger at a subway station only to be knocked out while fleeing, Natalie wakes up and discovers that her life has suddenly become her worst nightmare—a romantic comedy—and she is the leading lady.
Our read: Isn't It Romantic (2019) reads as a cosy, breathless, inventive comedy · fantasy · romance entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, breathless, gentle comedy / fantasy, inventive in texture. Redemptive, intimate, measured.
- cosy
- kinetic
- gentle
- redemptive
- intimate
- funny
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