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* ''Film/WhyBeGood'' is a silent film from 1929 that has many elements that would later be associated with Romantic Comedies. Misunderstandings galore!

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* ''Film/WhyBeGood'' is a Examples of the genre go all the way back to the silent film from 1929 that has many elements that would later be associated with Romantic Comedies. Misunderstandings galore!era, including:
** ''Film/It1927''
** ''Film/WhyBeGood''

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* ''Film/WhyBeGood'' is a silent film from 1929 that has many elements that would later be associated with Romantic Comedies. Misunderstandings galore!



* ''Film/WhyBeGood'' is a silent film from 1929 that has many elements that would later be associated with Romantic Comedies. Misunderstandings galore!



* ''Film/WhyBeGood'' is a silent film from 1929 that has many elements that would later be associated with Romantic Comedies. Misunderstandings galore!
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* ''Film/ViewFromTheTop''
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* ''Film/CurlyTop'' (a Creator/ShirleyTemple vehicle where the two main adult characters fall in love)
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See also RomanceArc, RuleOfRomantic, and compare with the BromanticComedy. Often overlaps with HaremGenre, though those are not always comedic.

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See also RomanceArc, RuleOfRomantic, and compare with the BromanticComedy. BromanticComedy and ScrewballComedy. Often overlaps with HaremGenre, though those are not always comedic.comedic.
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* ''Film/MySuperExGirlfriend''
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* ''Webcomic/LetsGetDivorced''


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* ''Webcomic/TilDebtDoUsPart''
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* ''Series/HoldTheSunset''
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* ''Film/JustMarried''
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* ''Film/ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld'': a romcom-action Film in which a young man must defeat a woman’s evil ex-lovers to win her heart.
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* ''WebAnimation/MangaRabbitHomeNoba''
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* ''Film/SomebodyIUsedToKnow''
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* Films of the ScrewballComedy sub-genre of the 1930s-1940s were often these.

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* Films of the ScrewballComedy sub-genre subgenre of the 1930s-1940s 1930s-'40s were often these.



** ''Film/HisGirlFriday'' adds a curve in that the romantic protagonists are divorced as well as former boss and prize employee (editor and ace reporter).
** 1981's ''Film/Arthur1981'' was an intentional throwback to these, and a very successful one.
** 1972's ''Film/WhatsUpDoc'' was an earlier one.
** 1951's ''Film/SinginInTheRain'' is an even earlier throwback, also very successful.
** ''Film/{{Leatherheads}}'' was also a throwback. Except it didn't work too well.
** ''The Film/RunawayBride'' strays deep into screwball territory, although it is more serious in some respects than most - the protagonists' psychological hang-ups are explored and e. g. the father's drinking problem is not done for laughs.

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** ''Film/HisGirlFriday'' adds a curve in that the romantic protagonists are divorced as well as former boss and prize employee (editor and ace reporter).
** 1981's ''Film/Arthur1981'' was
reporter). It's an intentional throwback otherwise faithful adaptation of the ''non''-romantic comedy ''The Front Page'', gender-flipping the original play's reporter from male to these, and female to add a very successful one.
** 1972's ''Film/WhatsUpDoc'' was an earlier one.
romance.
** 1951's ''Film/SinginInTheRain'' is an even earlier throwback, also very successful.
** ''Film/{{Leatherheads}}''
was also a throwback. Except it didn't work too well.
one of the first throwbacks to this genre, set in the late 1920s.
** 1972's ''Film/WhatsUpDoc'' was the first significant throwback to be set in the then-present day.
** ''Film/Arthur1981''
** ''Film/{{Leatherheads}}''
** ''The Film/RunawayBride'' strays deep into screwball territory, although it is more serious in some respects than most - the protagonists' psychological hang-ups are explored and e. g. the father's drinking problem is not done for laughs.
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* ''Film/EnoughSaid'' is a deconstruction of modern rom-coms.
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* ''Series/WTwoWorlds''
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* ''Film/BlameItOnRio''
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* ''Webcomic/SeeYouInMy19thLife''
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* ''Webcomic/OjisanAndMarshmallow'''

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* ''Webcomic/OjisanAndMarshmallow'''''Webcomic/OjisanAndMarshmallow''
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* ''Film/TicketToParadise''
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** ''Film/LoveIsNews''

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* ''Film/MorningGlory'' - It's mostly a comedy about Rachel [=McAdams=] working as the producer of a morning show, but it still gets categorized as a chick flick. Like ''Film/{{IQ|1994}}'', it's story is bigger than just the romance.

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* ''Film/MorningGlory'' - It's – it's mostly a comedy about Rachel [=McAdams=] working as the producer of a morning show, but it still gets categorized as a chick flick. Like ''Film/{{IQ|1994}}'', it's story is bigger than just the romance.



* ''Film/OutAtTheWedding'' is a rom-com about a woman who pays a lesbian to act as her fiancee when she gets caught up in a white lie involving her family.

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* ''Film/OutAtTheWedding'' is a rom-com about a woman who pays a lesbian to act as her fiancee when she gets caught up in a white lie involving her family.family.
* ''Film/OutToSea''



* ''Film/PartingGlances'' - a gay film set in New York during the height of the AIDS crisis. Notable for ''not'' killing off any of its characters and for being Creator/SteveBuscemi’s feature film debut.

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* ''Film/PartingGlances'' - a gay film set in New York during the height of the AIDS crisis. Notable for ''not'' killing off any of its characters and for being Creator/SteveBuscemi’s feature film debut.
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* ''Film/Barbie2023''

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