ANALYSIS
Rom com royalty returns
The holy trinity of modern romantic comedies is the much-loved informal trilogy of When Harry Met Sally... (1989), Sleepless in Seattle (1993) and You’ve Got Mail (1998).
The incandescent onscreen presence of Meg Ryan, combined with the wit of late writer and director Nora Ephron, supercharged the rom com, dispelling the shallow and gendered cliches of the genre (spoiler: a bubbly female character enjoying a happy ending doesn’t make
