LESBIAN ROMANCE RULES - Better Than Chocolate

Films have formulas and rules, but how well do films follow those formulas?  What about Lesbian Romance films, do they follows a strict formula and a set of rules?

Better than Chocolate is about young lesbians Maggie & Kim and Maggie's friends and family.

LESBIAN ROMANCE RULES - But I'm A Cheerleader

Films have formulas and rules, but how well do films follow those formulas?  What about Lesbian Romance films, do they follows a strict formula and a set of rules?

But I'm A Cheerleader is a farce about a girl who doesn't realise she's a lesbian who family hold an intervention and being taken to a special camp to be cured.  As such it parodies the hegemony's treatment of homosexuals, 12 step programs and many of this film genre's conventions.

ROM COM RULES - 10 Things I Hate About You

Does the 1999 High School film adaptation (and contemporisation) of Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew - 10 Thing I Hate About You - follow the Rom Com Film Rules?