ABSTRACT

Notting Hill was a different gang but same dynamics. Grant's quirky roommate Scarlett is replaced by Grant's quirky red-head sister Honey, but she serves the same function. Loving, supportive, misguided friend. All the gang of friends in Notting Hill feel like the same old gang people knew and loved from 4WaaF. Just a different set of actors. It makes to imagine that Richard Curtis has such a gang of friends. Pirate Radio is not primarily a romantic comedy, but a love letter to classic rock and roll at a time when the pirate radio stations that played it were banned in the England of RC's childhood. And within this premise, there are love stories. In the 1980s, John Hughes was synonymous with teen date romantic comedies. He had his own style. Millions of people grew up on these movies and fell in love to those soundtracks. Ferris Bueller's Day Off was Bill Clinton's favorite movie.