Romantic Comedy 'And Mrs' Sees Aisling Bea Face a Wedding and a Funeral

The rules of romantic comedies are simple and finite: The story's focus is a love story. It should probably make you laugh more than you cry. It can (and should) tackle familiar tropes like friends to lovers, opposites attract, or forced proximity. Often, the couple must face an obstacle that drives them apart, only for the duo to find their way back to one another in time for wedding bells to ring before the credits roll.

Spoiler alert: The forthcoming British film And Mrs appears to do almost none of those things, instead deciding to turn the genre on its head for a complicated story of love, grief, and death. The drama follows the story of Gemma, who reluctantly says yes when her American boyfriend Nathan proposes. But when he suddenly drops dead shortly before their wedding day, Gemma vows to marry him anyway, launching a campaign to overcome her loved one's objections, public opinion, and even English law. (Fun fact: Posthumous marriage --- known as necrogamy or "ghost marriage" --- is actually allowed in a handful of countries, most notably France.)

Aisling Bea (Alice & Jack) stars as Gemma, alongside Colin Hanks (A Friend of the Family) as Nathan and Billie Lourd (American Horror Story) as his sister, Audrey, who develops a complicated and nuanced bond with the woman who would have been (and still wants to become!) her sister in law.