We watch a lot of rom-coms. From ‘It Happened One Night’ (the GOAT) and ‘The Philadelphia Story’ at the sublime end, to the latest POS with that guy from that show and that girl who used to be on that other show, on the other, we see most of them. They can be great; witty and still have something to say about love and gender and all our nonsense and baggage. Or they star Katherine Heigel and or Seth Rogen.

And then there are the rom-com masqueraders — the films that are marketed like a rom-com, but are secretly about death, loss, cancer, child-abduction, or some other horror.

‘The Family Stone’ was our former champ in the secretly depressing tragedy about death but sold as breezy, fish out of water, girl meets boy’s mean family claptrap. But ‘One Day’ with Anne Hathaway has taken over the top spot after we picked it up from RedBox Saturday night.

It’s relentlessly depressing. Just awful. Psychological abuse abounds. And there’s a secret cancer death and the shocking lead death to really kick you in the teeth. All it needed was a miscarriage or childhood leukemia. Yet the trailer is all ‘romp around the UK and France with a couple that’s perfect for each other but doesn’t realize it or that the universe won’t come together for.’ Ye gods, what a travesty.