![]() “I’ll Have What She’s Having,” in part, gives us a glimpse into the making of the films. From films starring icons Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn to Molly Ringwald’s character pining over Jake Ryan (one of the all-time great movie hunks) in “Sixteen Candles,” these movies and the people in them look good. ![]() There’s also something downright stylish about rom-coms. The television was on and, as a child of divorced parents, watching people end up together after a series of hilarious events and wrong turns must have spoken to me, stuck just far enough in the suburbs, the Chicago city skyline visible on sunny days. Personally speaking, I think it’s all about conditioning - grandparents who watched “The Philadelphia Story” and “It Happened One Night” while they babysat me made me fall in love with movies about falling in love. ![]() There’s no study that concludes the hows and whys people gravitate toward these kinds of films and shows. But the case Erin Carlson makes in “I’ll Have What She’s Having” is solid: Nora Ephron reinvented and saved the genre with “When Harry Met Sally,” “Sleepless in Seattle” and “You’ve Got Mail.” Today, thanks to films like “The Big Sick” and television shows like “The Mindy Project,” the rom-com is having a moment. It takes a certain kind of person to watch “Pretty Woman” whenever they come across it on TV, argue that “Boomerang” is an overlooked classic, and make fun of Adam Sandler films but defend “The Wedding Singer” to the death. ![]()
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