'Friends with Benefits' mocks rom-coms

Though self-consciously set in the bicoastal Hollywood axis of New York-Los Angeles, “Friends with Benefits” more properly takes place amid the movie world of romantic comedies. It aims to ditch schmaltz and replace it with snap, the kind found in the classic rom-coms of Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn or Frank Capra’s “It Happened One Night,” a poster of which hangs above a busy bed in “Friends with Benefits.”