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Not only is Crusie starring in the flick, but he's also working as a producer.

If romantic comedy is more to your taste, seek out the novels of Jennifer Crusie, who published multiple bestsellers in the ’90s and 2000s, but not much since, although she remains an active blogger and promiser of books to come.

Crusie’s rom-coms strike me as the apotheosis of the form: sexy, smart, witty, down-to-earth, powered by the kind of banter you find in a Howard Hawks film, and with characters just plausible enough to make you believe that people like this might exist somewhere.

Bet Me, Faking It, and Fast Women represent Crusie in top form—Faking It, with its romance between a con man and lady forger is particularly fetching.

“So many men cannot get their heads around the idea that women are not first and foremost sexual objects,” the novelist Jenny Crusie told me.