{"id":925,"date":"2008-04-11T01:07:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-11T01:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2008\/04\/a-romantic-comedy-about-starter-marriages\/"},"modified":"2008-04-11T01:07:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-11T01:07:00","slug":"a-romantic-comedy-about-starter-marriages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2008\/04\/a-romantic-comedy-about-starter-marriages.html","title":{"rendered":"A romantic comedy about &#8220;starter marriages&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_MwnH1kpbPRM\/R_8ez7XHdAI\/AAAAAAAABas\/RjMSZE6xQ-4\/s1600-h\/howtogetdivorcedby30-a.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"cursor:pointer;cursor:hand\" src=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_MwnH1kpbPRM\/R_8ez7XHdAI\/AAAAAAAABas\/RjMSZE6xQ-4\/s400\/howtogetdivorcedby30-a.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><br><span style=\"font-family: georgia\"><i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.variety.com\/article\/VR1117983777.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Variety<\/a><\/i> reports that Universal has acquired the rights to Sascha Rothchild\u2019s recent <i>LA Weekly<\/i> cover story \u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/www.laweekly.com\/la-vida\/la-vida\/how-to-get-divorced-by-30\/18574\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">How to Get Divorced by 30<\/a>\u2018 and will use it as the basis for a romantic comedy:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The author, using the disintegration of her first marriage along with those of five other friends, posits it\u2019s best to begin with a \u201cstarter marriage\u201d before finding your ultimate mate. She lays out 15 steps to guide readers to ending the first marriage.<\/p>\n<p>The U comedy will focus on a heroine who road-tests the \u201cstarter marriage\u201d premise and then finds her perceptions redrawn by reality and relationships.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So \u2026 will the movie <i>support<\/i> her thesis, that it\u2019s good to get the first marriage over with quickly?  Or will the movie end up <i>subverting<\/i> her thesis?  Certainly there have been many films about intentionally short-term or superficial relationships that end up being deeper or lasting longer than the participants expected.  It\u2019s a longstanding clich\u00e9, though I think it reflects a certain truth about the nature of sexual relationships, and I wouldn\u2019t be surprised if the film took that route just out of habit.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Variety reports that Universal has acquired the rights to Sascha Rothchild\u2019s recent LA Weekly cover story \u2018How to Get Divorced by 30\u2018 and will use it as the basis for a romantic comedy: The author, using the disintegration of her first marriage along with those of five other friends, posits it\u2019s best to begin with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1116,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>A romantic comedy about &quot;starter marriages&quot;?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Variety reports that Universal has acquired the rights to Sascha Rothchild&#039;s recent LA Weekly cover story &#039;How to Get Divorced by 30&#039; and will use it as\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2008\/04\/a-romantic-comedy-about-starter-marriages.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A romantic comedy about &quot;starter marriages&quot;?\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Variety reports that Universal has acquired the rights to Sascha Rothchild&#039;s recent LA Weekly cover story &#039;How to Get Divorced by 30&#039; and will use it as\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2008\/04\/a-romantic-comedy-about-starter-marriages.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"FilmChat\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2008-04-11T01:07:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_MwnH1kpbPRM\/R_8ez7XHdAI\/AAAAAAAABas\/RjMSZE6xQ-4\/s400\/howtogetdivorcedby30-a.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Peter T. 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