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With ‘I’m Sure,’ hope for the romantic comedy?

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Sure, we still have ‘Valentine’s Day,’ ‘The Ugly Truth’ and scores of romantic-comedy clunkers. But the genre in the past couple of years has gotten a lot better (after it got a lot worse). Or at least there are a few gems in the rough among the younger-skewing titles — Marc Webb’s ‘(500) Days of Summer’ ‘Nick ‘n Norah’s Infinite Playlist,’ the indie darling ‘In Search of a Midnight Kiss.’


That pattern could (hopefully) continue as buzz builds for a new project called ‘I’m Sure,’ in which a 20-something man realizes he’s in love with a 30-something woman who’s about to get married — and then sets about stalking her. (It plays funny, those who’ve read and liked the script assure us.)

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The writer-director behind it is Thomas Bezucha, who’s best known for ‘The Family Stone,’ the Sarah Jessica Parker vehicle of a few years back, which may have been the most female-skewing movie in recent memory and was more of a drama than a comedy anyway.

Bezucha does, however, go a little lighter in the upcoming CW-happy stylings of Leighton Meester and Katie Cassidy in ‘Monte Carlo’ (college-age woman whisked to Monaco after being mistaken for an heiress). And apparently he really gets his comedy on with ‘I’m Sure’ while telling a piece of slice-of-life humanism at the same time. There’s also a producer on it who might suggest he could pull it off, Michael London, who was behind that off-kilter take on modern relationships in ‘Sideways’ a few years back (and ‘Family Stone’).

Several midsize studios are interested in ‘I’m Sure.’ Don’t be surprised if it gets bought in the coming days and moves forward with an appealing young cast. Something to pleasantly ponder the next time you’re ambushed by a ‘Life As We Know It’ trailer.

— Steven Zeitchik

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