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For ‘One Night Only’ Director Will Gluck, Rom-Coms Never Died
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But if you ask the director himself, rom-coms really never died.
For the general purposes of “One Night Only,” the director focused on the fact that this is simply Allie and Owen’s reality, and their third time dealing with The Night.
In typical Gluck fashion, the rom-com pokes fun at rom-coms itself, right down to a cheeky meet-cute that’s quietly mocking onscreen meet-cutes in general.
Monica Barbaro and Callum Turner in “One Night Only” (Universal Pictures)That’s why Gluck also tackled the “Peter Rabbit” films and 2014 remake of “Annie.”
At the moment, rom-coms are simply the vehicles letting Gluck do what he wants to do as a storyteller .