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Down with Love is a 2003 romantic comedy film directed by Peyton Reed. It stars Renée Zellweger and Ewan McGregor and is a pastiche of the early-1960s American "no-sex sex comedies", such as Pillow Talk and Lover Come Back and the "myriad spawn" of derivative films that followed. Time film critic Richard Corliss wrote that Down with Love "is so clogged with specific references to a half-dozen Rock-and-Doris-type…
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Late 1950s and early 1960s represent one of the more interesting periods of US history, at least after *Mad Men* began to approach it from the perspective quite different from Boomer nostalgia. Those included certain aspects of popular culture Boomers were too young to consume or understand, like Hollywood “sex comedies”, a very specific subgenre of romantic comedies that walked the fine line between “hip” modern se…More
Down with Love is a funny, spoof on the Doris Day 1960's film genre, of which I have seen none. sourceMore
