Gabriele Salvatores's "Mediterraneo" is a deliberately charming comedy whose most daring conceit is that love, in one form and another, makes the world go around.

The film's portrayal of casual adultery as innocent recreation was an idea whose time had come, so this is a romantic comedy, wry and charming.

Ewan McGregor stars in a charming, offbeat romantic comedy.

His initial directorial effort, "The Major and the Minor," is best remembered for being a charming romantic comedy about pedophilia, or so it seems.

"A light charming comedy," responds Mr. Blakemore, elegant and well pressed in a shirt and jacket.

But by and large the book has gotten a pass as a charming comedy, something of a surprise from its aging author.

Unlikely as it seems, the movie that has the town buzzing is an oddball, funny, charming and sometimes gross comedy, "American Pie."

This is real theater, a charming comedy with a beginning, middle and end.

The team opted to create "a charming, colorful, great-looking musical comedy - an old-fashioned piece of entertainment," as Herman recalled in his memoir Showtune.

Ms. Lopez's new movie, the blandly charming romantic comedy "Maid in Manhattan," makes a similar point.