Mini-Review
For a typical romantic comedy, When in Rome is atypically funny. It probably feels fresher than most rom-coms because it does a better job of walking the fine line between seriousness and goofiness. When Beth (Kristen Bell) flies to Rome to attend her sister’s wedding, she meets charming and handsome Nick (Josh Duhamel). They hit it off at the wedding, but after Beth takes coins from the plaza’s Fountain of Love and the men who threw them in start falling in love with her, she thinks Nick might be under a spell as well. The film eventually takes the classic route, but not before we see a few other men essentially stalk and sexually harass Beth. A thought: what if she had picked up a woman’s coin? Methinks the writers missed a beat.
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