In New Rom-Com Eternity, Hollywood Unexpectedly Celebrates Commitment
January 9, 2026
Many romantic comedies celebrate divorce (Eat, Pray, Love), glorify sex without commitment (Friends with Benefits), or constitute pure porn like 2025 Academy Award winner Anora. This makes the holiday rom-com Eternity a pleasant surprise.
Eternity isn’t perfect. Partial nudity and F-bombs make it inappropriate for children. The pacing lags at times. Hollywood delivers the usual paean to political correctness by casting characters diversified by skin color and sexual orientation. But the overall message is pro-marriage and pro-commitment, a decided throwback to the 1950s before the start of the sexual revolution.
