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Whether we like it nor not, the romantic comedy is an old genre with roots going back to Shakespeare’s plays and Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Yet not all romantic comedies are the same with some that fully embrace the cliches while some don’t.

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Then there are rom-coms that fall in the middle such as A Date with Miss Fortune. Made in Canada, this independent film is about a struggling male sitcom writer meeting a superstitious Portuguese woman. As the film focuses on the two trying to make their relationship work, some hidden details appear that might have been missed by the viewers.

Read More: The Romantic Comedy Is Having a Revolution — And It's Happening on TVAfter a successful theatrical release in Portugal and a positive first showing at the annual Afm Market back in November, Vision Films has now announced they will be releasing their "A Date With Miss Fortune" in theaters across the USA and Canada, as well as on DVD and VOD, this February. A romantic comedy about clashing cultures and unexpected love, "A Date with Miss Fortune" is so in the vein of films like "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" and "Meet the Parents" that it's practically a spiritual sequel. The film centers on a struggling American writer (Ryan K. Scott), who meets and falls in love with a beautiful and charming, yet superstitious and traditional Portuguese woman (Jeannette Sousa). Despite their cultural and familial differences, they try to make it work and hope that true love will prevail in the end.