Some of the very best romantic comedies present themselves as dispatches from the front lines of modern dating and gender relations. They may focus on one specific love story, but they promise to deliver more universal insights about “how we date now.” Think of the way the gold-standard When Harry Met Sally … (1989) surveyed a post-second-wave-feminist world and asked if society was finally at a point where men and women could be friends. But just-OK romantic comedies do this too: In 2011 No Strings Attached and Friends With Benefits, released within mere months of each other, both set out to explore what the moral panic du jour, “hooking up,” was all about.
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