This one missed the mark. Indeed, it thwacked itself firmly into a different continent from the mark.

A Kiss to Remember easily walked the tightrope of comedy (amnesia! Kittens! Moppets attempting to commit murder!) and genuine emotion (a mother, at a time when she was considered the property of her husband, forced to give up her child; that same child, hurt and betrayed, refusing a reconciliation with her until her death) while The Bride and the Beast and Charming the Prince were delightful farces which happened to feature tragic backstories.

But a curse, real or imagined, that leads to the imprisonment, rape, and/or death of generations of women at the hands of their husbands (including the heroine!) makes for uncomfortable reading.