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By Julie Moggan
Every four seconds a Harlequin Mills & Boon romance novel is sold, giving hope to readers throughout the world—an Indian woman pining for her straying husband, a Japanese housewife yearning for her handsome ballroom dancing teacher, and a British mother-of-three aiming to spice up her marriage. The film does not only follow female readers: model Stephen has graced over 200 book covers but can’t find his true love, while Roger, a pensioner in Northern England, writes romance novels under the pseudonym “Gill Sanderson.” Guilty Pleasures explores our universal struggle to reconcile inner fantasy with the tragicomic truths of real-life relationships. (2010, 85 min, digital) More details »
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