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THE TROUBLE WITH ROMANCE Send This Review to a Friend
Four situations are depicted in this hapless treatise on aspects of so-called romance. “The Trouble With Romance” has plenty of troubles of its own, not the least of which is the dumb screenplay co-written with Sharri Hefner by the director Gene Rhee.
The relationships at hand occur in different rooms in the same hotel. The most obnoxious vignette involves a temporary breakup, after which the jilted lover bonds with male companions and attempts to flush his girlfriend’s picture down the toilet along with his excrement. When she has second thoughts and returns, he desperately tries to retrieve the photo from the stuffed commode and his hand and the photo are disgustingly filthy. Angrily, she realizes what he has done and slathers the dirty photo over him. You get the scene.
The other three segments include a woman crazily talking to the ex-lover she imagines in the bathroom while her present lover waits in the bedroom and is bewildered overhearing her, a wife who invites another woman in for a bondage session with her flabbergasted husband, and a sentimental relationship that develops between a nice guy and an easily impressed hooker.
No need to name all the actors. Better to spare them the embarrassment.

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