This movie is what a romantic comedy should be as far as I'm concerned. It's hilarious. It's frank. It's real. It has three dimensional characters with rich, complex personalities. No one is perfect. No one is pining after someone else. This is not a cute story about a boy meeting a girl. This is a story about how relationships happen in real life. Everything happens for a reason.
The cast is mostly black but this is not a "black" story. It's a universal story that was originally dramatized with a white cast. In fact, screenwriter Leslye Headland wrote an awesome piece in The Hollywood Reporter about adapting the original play and first film into a screenplay for this movie that is a MUST read.
"There was no discussion of changing the characters’ lifestyles or any of the storyline as a result of casting black actors. I had written a script. The studio had decided to go with the strongest cast for that particular script. That cast happened to have black actors, " she writes.
I love it! I love that the movie performed strongly at the box office too. Hopefully Hollywood studios will do what they always do (follow the money) and there will be more films like this to come. Well done!
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