Chapter 2
Other Meets
Arranged Meets
Blind dates. Man Up (2015, written by Tess Morris) has Simon Pegg showing up for a blind date, and Lake Bell, who steals the date, pretending to be the unmet lady, as she is holding a copy of the identifying book she got from a woman on the train who was supposed to have the actual date.
Arranged marriages from other cultures or mail-order brides from other eras in history also fall into this category. A lawyer arranges for an American woman in New York (Andie MacDowell) to marry a Frenchman (Gérard Depardieu) who needs a Green Card (1990, written and directed by Peter Weir). They actually meet at their own marriage ceremony in a judge’s chambers.
Sometimes a work assignment can lead to love. Ninotchka (1939, ...
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