Showing posts with label Genre: romantic comedy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Genre: romantic comedy. Show all posts

The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996)

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Barbra Streisand directs and stars as a middle-aged academic, Rose, who begins a relationship with a fellow professor (Jeff Bridges). Both a...

While You Were Sleeping (1995)

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Described as a romantic comedy, this OK film directed by Jon Turteltaub isn’t really funny at all.  Sandra Bullock stars as Lucy, a Chicago ...

Say Anything... (1989)

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The first film directed by Cameron Crowe is a highly enjoyable and satisfying romantic comedy starring a very young John Cusack.   Following...

Sabrina (1954)

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Light romantic comedy directed by Billy Wilder.  Audrey Hepburn stars in the title role. She thinks she’s in love with the wealthy Long Isla...

Addicted to Love (1997)

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Deeply flawed rom-com.  Photographer Maggie (Meg Ryan) and astronomer Sam (Matthew Broderick) team up to spy on and torment their former lov...

Two Weeks Notice (2002)

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An idealistic liberal New York lawyer (Sandra Bullock) wants to protect a community centre. But her new boss – a womanising billionaire real...

Chalet Girl (2011)

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Enjoyable romantic comedy directed by Phil Traill.  Kim (Felicity Jones) is a former skateboarding champion whose mother died in a car accid...

The Cutting Edge (1992)

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A sort of romantic comedy, although there could have been a lot more comedy, directed by Paul Michael Glaser.  Prima-donna figure-skater Kat...

Music and Lyrics (2007)

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Enjoyable romantic comedy directed by Marc Lawrence.  A 1980s pop idol named Alex (Hugh Grant) is tasked with writing a song for a Shakira-l...

Leap Year (2010)

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Romantic comedy.  An American woman (Amy Adams) travels to Ireland to propose to her boyfriend, who after four years hasn’t asked her to mar...

I Could Never Be Your Woman (2007)

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Witty romantic comedy directed and written by Amy “Clueless” Heckerling. Rosie (Michelle Pfeiffer) is a TV scriptwriter. Adam (Paul Rudd) is...

It Could Happen to You (1994)

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Highly unusual and enjoyable romantic comedy drama. A New York cop called Charlie (Nic Cage) wins the lottery and – honouring a promise – do...

Tootsie (1982)

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Strikingly unusual romantic comedy.  New Yorker Michael Dorsey (Dustin Hoffman) cannot hold down work as an actor because he's too opini...

Four Weddings & a Funeral (1994)

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The best of the romantic comedies written by Richard Curtis. The script and narrative are tighter and sharper, so there’s not the messy spra...

Bridget Jones’s Diary (2001)

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Romantic comedy directed by Sharon Maguire and starring Renée Zellweger, Hugh Grant and Colin Firth. It’s co-written by Richard Curtis and a...

Serendipity (2001)

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Romantic comedy directed by Peter Chelsom and starring John Cusack and Kate Beckinsale.  John and Sara meet by chance in a shop in New York ...

Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009)

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Flawed romantic comedy.  Rebecca Bloomwood (Isla Fisher) is a New York journalist who is addicted to buying fashionable clothes. She ends up...

One Fine Day (1996)

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Rom-com about two single-parent New Yorkers.  Journalist Jack (George Clooney) meets architect Melanie (Michelle Pfeiffer) and – across a he...

French Kiss (1995)

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Lame, tepid rom-com that’s neither romantic nor funny.  Meg Ryan plays Kate, an extremely annoying American living in Canada. She flies to F...

Roman Holiday (1953)

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Hugely charming romantic comedy. Audrey Hepburn plays a princess from an unnamed country, who has a stifling life of rigid routine and proto...