In "Raaz 3," a 3-D Bollywood horror film and romance, evil water is the vehicle for casting spells.
That Scott Moir and Tessa Virtue are real people with a real human relationship who happen to embody or at least happen to have projected upon them every unrealistic trope of Hollywood romance muddies the water considerably for the rest of us, who occasionally found solace in the widely accepted fact that Hollywood romance doesn't exist in real life.
She found a position at the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries (later renamed the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service), where she wrote public-outreach brochures and copy for a series of radio shorts called "Romance Under the Waters".
But now I sorta kinda believe the romance-language hype: Water has always and everywhere symbolized cleansing, renewal, baptism.
She's joined by Japanese film-maker Naomi Kawase, who has submitted Futatsume no Mado (Still the Water), a romance centering on two teenagers isolated on a remote island.
And don't forget the simple romance of traveling by water and the convenience of being able to carry your pampering environment with you, whether around the Caribbean or to Alaska.
Yet, those navigating the tricky waters of romance need warnings of the rocks and reefs ahead more than intimations of the happy haven in which they hope to lay anchor.
A world where all pans are non-stick pans, a world where novels are not all water-logged romance novels, a world where board games retain all their pieces, even the dice.
Just below them in 23rd ($3.1m) and 24th ($2.9m) were fish-out-of-water fantasy romance Time to Love, about a modern city girl transported back to the Qing dynasty, and To the Fore, a rare addition to the cycling-movie canon praised by Variety for its technically dazzling riding sequences.
But the old drug dealer was not immune to the romance of the Hong Kong waters.
