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The New Rules for Romantic Dramas
From The Idea of You to It Ends With Us, weepy rom-drams are back with a vengeance — and with new archetypes.
This status imbalance leads to a funny “Who, me?”–type humility from the female love interest and requires the male to “humble himself” (eat a sandwich at her house or read a book for once) to become attractive to her. Joey King’s Zara ( A Family Affair) launches an all-out assault on her mother, Brooke (Nicole Kidman), for dating her hot Hollywood hunk boss, Chris (Zac Efron). Anne Hathaway’s Solène ( The Idea of You) cuts loose her boy-band BF, Hayes (Nicholas Galitzine), when she hears her teen daughter is getting bullied at school.
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