Article: HAPPILY NEVER AFTER: The formulaic endings and all those cliches are enough to make a moviegoer wish romantic comedies would just go away.

Byline: Mary Kunz Goldman and Toni Ruberto

Apr. 29--In the new movie "In the Land of Women," a young man played by Adam Brody is trying to live a moment out of a John Hughes comedy. He's not looking for a scene from "Home Alone," the movie for which Hughes might be most famous, but something that resonates from the charming, slice-of-high-schoollife film "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" or the romance-tinged "Pretty in Pink" and "Some Kind of Wonderful." And he's not alone.

For a few years now, fans of romantic comedies have been suffering a dearth of good movies. The man shortage was proven to be a myth. But the quality-romantic- movie shortage is real.

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