Resort To Love

The Rom Com Rewrite

Surely designed to make you want to go to Mauritius, Lisa and Charles Adrian find that this month’s rom com is a lot more than just an advertising feature.

Resort To Love

Year: 2021

Screenplay by: Tabi McCartney and Dana Schmalenberg

Based on a story by: Tabi McCartney

Director: Steven K. Tsuchida

Stars: Christina Milian, Jay Pharoah, Sinqua Walls, Christini Pitts

Show notes:

Resort To Love is a really good rom com. It’s a solidly built, satisfying, funny, well-written, well-acted rom com with a beautiful soundtrack and dreamy locations. But would we pay to see it at the cinema? Maybe. We don’t know. We streamed it on Netflix. And how is it different from the great rom coms of yesteryear? Is it really so different from them? What makes a great rom com anyway? We are not sure. But we have some ideas.

Other films mentioned in this episode are: Joe Versus The Volcano (1990) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099892/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0 – also the subject of episode 8 of this podcast), To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before (2018) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3846674/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0 – also the subject of episode 2 of this podcast), 10 Things I Hate About You (1999) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0147800/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0 – also the subject of episode 1 of this podcast), My Best Friend’s Wedding (1997) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119738/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1), Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0800039/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0), Love’s Last Resort (2017) (the synopsis of which is here: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6398360/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0), You’ve Got Mail (1998) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0128853/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1), Sliding Doors (1998) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120148/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1) and Christina Milian’s previous Netflix outing Falling Inn Love (2019) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9860728/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0).

We record these episodes over the internet. Sometimes the audio is not perfect. We apologise for that.

Music in this episode is by Martin Zaltz Austwick (martinzaltzaustwick.com). Artwork is by Lisa Findley.

Thank you for listening!