Deftly combining low-key romance and gentle humor, the director, Ella Lemhagen (working from Michael Druker's 2008 play), stares down prejudice with a nudge and a wink rather than a soapbox.
There's also clearly a low-key romance going on between Itch and Lucy… Do you think you'll continue writing teen books or do you think you'll write books aimed at other age groups now?
Playing in counterpoint to the uninvolving story of Tom's attempts to bluster and bully his way back into his family's affections is a low-key romance that develops between James and the lovely but awkward Katie Sarah Goldbergg), whom James meets in a fiction-writing class at a local college.
The pair, who play a married couple on screen, saw their own low-key romance in the spotlight in the summer after Stewart - who plays Bella Swan - was pictured with married film-maker Rupert Sanders, who directed her in Snow White And The Huntsman.
Joyce and Ray end up married with two children; their rebellious-yet-intellectual daughter Zoe becomes the next protagonist while Joyce fades into a hinterland of curtain making, low-key romance and husband-bolstering, and so another entirely ordinary life story begins.
If you prefer some low-key romance, snuggle up on a boat cruise around San Francisco Bay, take a day trip to the Sonoma and Napa Valley wineries or take in the sunset from the famous Golden Gate Bridge.
While previous summer seasons have ticked all of the boxes with dull precision, this year has been notably absent of one key element: romance.
Spa The spa is always key for romance on a weekend getaway.
For American audiences where narrative is key, the romance between Gong Er and Ip Man is emphasized.
The key to romance is love, and with love there's passion, and that doesn't mean sex.
That was the key to lasting romance: achieving, rather than passively receiving, love.
