In her book I Do and I Don’t: A History of Marriage in the Movies, film historian Jeanine Basinger describes a trend that has marked movies for the past 40 years: the lack of interest in married life. Incapable of imagining a dramatically interesting marriage, she explains:
Hollywood kept only the ritual, making movie after movie about weddings. Since no one felt the need for marriage—you could have sex, children, and cohabitation without it—films elevated the event and made it the main point: the Big Wedding in which you could have the decorations, the food, the booze, and the outfits without having to be bored by marriage problems.
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