You can't have a Hollywood meet cute on a dating app — but is that such a bad thing?
- Written by Lisa Portolan, PhD student, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University
Polygram Filmed EntertainmentThe “meet cute” is the moment in which two unlikely people encounter each other while going about their ordinary lives, and something extraordinary begins.
In the romantic comedy The Holiday (2006), Arthur (Eli Wallach) describes it thus to Iris (Kate Winslet):
It’s how two characters meet in a movie....





