Gradually, the term has evolved to evoke a love story, usually heterosexual, and a modern day romantic film or novel usually revolves around a man and a woman meeting, falling in love, and ending up married - many romantic comedy films will end with either the wedding or the marriage proposal as this is where the plot as such ends, with the two characters now safely wedded together. The marriage plot, indeed, is a staple of much fiction concerning relations between men and women, and is one of the key motifs of Hollywood cinema. ... The doctor laughingly tells Alvy that he needn't wor...

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