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| - Once Upon A Time Love At First Sight was all the romantic setup the audience needed, especially in Disney Movies and early romantic movies. But times have changed and we now demand a more realistic build up for our on screen couples... three days or so should do it. It seems in your general 90 minute movie, audiences are pretty willing to accept that a couple will progress to the point of getting engaged, or at least to a fairly intense point, in a matter of days or weeks, rarely more than a month. This isn't all that realistic: not that relationships with short courtships prior to the engagement haven't worked in real life, but successful ones are fairly rare. Compare "Falling in Love" Montage for other ways to get a couple together without spending a lot of screen time on the process. Also compare Engaging Conversation. In the gay community there is a stereotype of "Lesbian U-Haul Syndrome," in which a lesbian couple will move in together very early in a relationship, leading to many of the same problems. Sometimes Truth in Television, especially for shows set in a time period where long relationships before marriage were considered "absolutely lunatic and idiotic," such as the 1950s. Examples of Fourth Date Marriage include:
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