Conventions of Romance Films

• A rleatable, single, professional, thirty-year-old main character
• The main character will be flawed, often clumsy and unlucky in love.
• A 'nice guy' love interest, who the protagonist rejects throughout the movie, but will end up with in the end.
• A 'bad guy' love interest who the main character is with for a majority of the movie, but realises how wrong she was by the end. He will often end up in an embarrassing situation.
• A happy ending.
• Over dramatic romantic gestures.
• A clumsy best friend for comedic relief.
• Ending with a kiss.
• A number of times the characters are about to kiss but something interrupts them.
• A negative event near the middle of the film which turns the characters against one another, only to reconcile later.
• Crying and eating ice cream.