'Office Romance': Cheesy, great looking, and full of empty calories, but all in the best possible way 

Office Romance | Director: Ol Parker | Cast: Jennifer Lopez, Brett Goldstein | English | Netflix

She is Helen of Troy and he is Mr Bean. She wants him to tell her what he wants in life. He just survives. She has a fetish for English things, he likes powerful, attrac­tive women. She is a New Jersey girl, he is, to quote the Taylor Swift song, a London Boy. It’s a common trope in romantic com­edies, and in life. You only have to look at Zendaya and Tom Holland. So Jennifer Lopez plays Jackie Cruz, the CEO of an airline, who is also a pilot. Brett Goldstein, who co-wrote the script, is Daniel Blanchflower, a London lawyer who has just joined her company, which has a zero-tolerance policy on employee relationships.

The said company is full of characters, played by a revolving door of well-known TV faces, from Bradley Whitford to Edward James Olmos, the remarkable Betty Gilpin (from Glow) who has one of the most graphic childbirth scenes in a movie to the hilarious Tony Hale (from Veep). JLo looks like a million bucks and can do romcoms in her sleep. Goldstein is appropriately but­toned up, while Jodie Whittaker, playing his sister, is a hoot. JLo glows but Goldstein, from the Apple TV show Ted Lasso, is a good match. Yes, like the much-loved work comedy The Proposal (2009) with Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds, it is cheesy, great looking, and full of empty calories, but all in the best possible way.