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The forces of nature are supposed to avoid any multibillion-dollar calamities such as the recent Grand Forks, N.D., flood.
The screenwriter, Curtis, began his career with the hilariously acrid BBC sitcom Black Adder before writing The Tall Guy (1989) and Four Weddings and a Funeral --a movie that irked me, possibly because Grant passed up the alluringly neurotic Kristin Scott Thomas for the vapidly bovine Andie MacDowell, possibly because its dizzy romantic badinage was interrupted for easy pathos involving a fatal heart attack and other real-world calamities.
will probably experience a series of terrible events--wrenching calamities that are economic or social or environmental in nature" seems well within the realm of plausibility.
The battle of the calamities is really kind of funny--and if you're onto it, so must everyone else be.
But, it's worth remembering when the next set of calamities hits your television screen--or, far worse, your own community--that when we decide to "nationalize" our problems, the overhead tends to get very high, very fast.