Romantic Comedy

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  • Romantic Comedy -- Mediocre screen version of Bernard Slade's play about a successful Broadway playwriting team (Dudley Moore and Mary Steenburgen), whose professionalism takes a decade or so to ripen into romance. As directed by Arthur Hiller, the movie is not very romantic or comic, but the charm of the principals makes it a shade less unbearable. Though adultery figures in the plot, it is not condoned and the whole enterprise is rather innocuous. (A-II) (PG) ( 1983 )




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    ** Discontinued classification. All archived movies that were originally in the A-IV category are now classified as L.
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