History Film / DownWithLove

* CampGay: Maurice Johns, art director of Banner House, is portrayed this way.

* AllForNothing: [[spoiler:Subverted. Barbara eventually ends up BecomingTheMask and admits she doesn't want to be with Catcher despite her plan to get with him, leaving him depressed. However, despite her seeming reluctance towards him at the job interview she lured him to, she changes her mind and and decides she does want him after all, much to his delight.]]

* CampGay: Maurice Johns, art director of Banner House, is portrayed this way in both of his scenes.

* MissedHimByThatMuch: Catcher leaves the Mahogany Room with Gwendolyn to go a matinee just as Barbara and Vikki arrive there. Also happens later, as Catcher is led to the bedroom by the beatnik chick just moments before Barbara arrives.

* ClarkKenting: Catcher, who is nationally famous, goes undercover as Zip Martin by popping on a pair of Peter's glasses. Subverted in that he's so well known that he has to pay people off to refer to him as "Zip Martin" and [[spoiler:Barbara knows what's going on]].

* EpicFail: Peter's first date with Vikki in Catcher's apartment is this. Because he doesn't know how any of the switches work and he's clearly out of his element, he ends up causing the couch to flatten Vikki when he tries to activate the wall for the built-in bar, confuses her by making her think he's gay (she doesn't reveal this part until later, though), scares them both by playing music which turns out to be much louder than expected, and in trying to turn the music down, causes the record player to spit records across the room. Luckily for him, he decides to take Vikki downtown for coffee.

A 2003 farce, directed by Creator/PeytonReed and starring Creator/ReneeZellweger and Creator/EwanMcGregor, that both lampoons and homages classic {{romantic comed|y}}ies from the late 1950s and early '60s, particularly ''Film/PillowTalk'' and the other Creator/DorisDay[=/=]Creator/RockHudson movies of the era.

There's also a BetaCouple of Barbara's chain-smoking best friend and editor Vikki Hiller (Creator/SarahPaulson) and Catcher's neurotic boss Peter [=MacMannus=] (Creator/DavidHydePierce), who get drawn into the hijinks of Catcher and Barbara.

In 1962, aspiring author Barbara Novak (Zellweger) arrives in New York to publish her book, ''[[TitleDrop Down with Love]]'', which encourages female empowerment through chocolate and casual sex. It becomes an international bestseller, even edging out a biography of John F. Kennedy, and millions of women everywhere buy it and start learning from its precepts. This does not sit well with the majority of men in the world, least of all Catcher Block ([=McGregor=]), a reporter for ''Know'' magazine and a [[TheCasanova casanova]] rivaling Film/JamesBond himself in both suaveness and libido. After Novak calls him out for his behavior on national television, he hatches a scheme to get her to fall in love with him, thereby violating her own golden rule. She's already expressed her displeasure with him, so in order to get into her pants, he fabricates the persona of a country-boy astronaut who has just touched back down to earth, and as such has no idea of her book or her identity.

There is also a BetaCouple of Barbara's chain-smoking best friend and publisher Vikki Hiller (Creator/SarahPaulson) and Catcher's neurotic boss Peter [=MacMannus=] (Creator/DavidHydePierce), who get drawn into the hijinks of Catcher and Barbara.

* TheCameo: Creator/TonyRandall (who appeared in some of the vintage rom-coms this film is recreating) as Catcher's boss Theodore Banner.

* CostumePorn: The film is filled with gorgeous examples of 1960's fashion with the four leads going through dozens of outfits in the runtime. Remarkably, each piece the main actors wore was made bespoke, even if seen for just a few seconds on screen.

In 1962, aspiring author Barbara Novak (Zellweger) arrives in New York to publish her book, ''[[TitleDrop Down with Love]]'', which encourages female empowerment through chocolate and casual sex. It becomes an international bestseller, even edging out a biography of John F. Kennedy, and millions of women everywhere buy it and start learning from its precepts. This does not sit well with the majority of men in the world, least of all Catcher Block ([=McGregor=]), a reporter for ''Know'' magazine and a {{Casanova}} rivaling Film/JamesBond himself in both suaveness and libido. After Novak calls him out for his behavior on national television, he hatches a scheme to get her to fall in love with him, thereby violating her own golden rule. She's already expressed her displeasure with him, so in order to get into her pants, he fabricates the persona of a country-boy astronaut who has just touched back down to earth, and as such has no idea of her book or her identity.

* SplitScreen: The montage of Catcher ducking out on meeting with Barbara to meet up with stewardesses is filmed this way. By the time he skips breakfast she's so annoyed the line dividing them is shaped like a lightning bolt. Then there's the later sequence mentioned above under DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything.

** Helicopters. One appears dropping Catcher off at the ''Know'' offices when we first see him, [[spoiler:then another one appears at the end when Catcher and Barbara use it to go to Vegas to get married.]]

** At the end of Catcher’s date with Barbara in Peter’s apartment, she decides to walk out on him. Catcher asks her for another chance, which she denies, only to change her mind when he kisses her. [[spoiler:These same events foreshadow the last act of the film.]]