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ISN'T IT ROMANTIC
September 28, 2019  | By David Bianculli

HBO, 8:00 p.m. ET

 
Rebel Wilson stars in this 2019 comedy, playing a woman who suddenly finds herself living in the world of a romantic comedy, and bound by its rules and conventions. Conceptually, it’s similar to 1991’s Delirious, in which John Candy played a TV soap opera writer who gets hit on the head and wakes up inside his own show. In Isn’t It Romantic, Rebel Wilson’s Natalie gets hit on the head during a mugging, and wakes up inside one of the romantic comedies she professes to detest – with Liam Hemsworth as her fantasy world’s billionaire sex symbol. Other co-stars include Priyanka Chopra from ABC’s Quantico, Betty Gilpin from Netflix’s GLOW, and Jennifer Saunders from Absolutely Fabulous. And while all that talent may not be utilized fully, at least it’s there…
 
 
 
 
 
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