Top Ten Romantic Comedies
Twenty-five years ago, When Harry Met Sally revolutionized the romantic comedy. Sure, this film genre had been around since the earliest days of cinema, and had once been the domain of giants like Billy Wilder and Ernst Lubitsch and Stanley Donen.
But Love Actually is a considerable outlier among romantic comedies in its rigorous conviction not only that people fall in love without really knowing one another, but that they don’t even need to learn anything about each other to confirm their initial attraction.
30 Reasons "Sleepless In Seattle" Is The Greatest Romantic Comedy Of All Time Twenty years ago, Nora Ephron taught us what love was really about: meeting a stranger at the top of the Empire State Building.
Perfectly imperfect publishing professional Bridget Jones finds herself falling for both her randy but irresistibly charming boss and an aloof barrister.
42. Notting Hill Year: 1999 Director: Roger Michell Like most good romantic comedies, everything about Notting Hill is an absolute dream: Oh, you’re a world-famous American actress, wealthy and beloved by millions? Neat.
10 Things I Hate About You is a 1999 American teen romantic comedy-drama film directed by Gil Junger and starring Julia Stiles, Heath Ledger, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Larisa Oleynik. The screenplay, written by Karen McCullah and Kirsten Smith, is a modernization of William Shakespeare's late-16th century comedy The Taming of the Shrew, retold in a late-1990s American high school setting.
Pretty Woman, released 25 years ago today, remains one of the most popular movies, and also the highest-grossing romantic comedy, of all time. It revived the languishing career of Richard Gere; it catapulted Julia Roberts to mega-stardom. It seems to be playing on TV, thanks to cable channels both premium and decidedly basic, at pretty much any given moment.
Rule number one in teen movies: If you're "faking" a relationship with your best friend to make somebody else jealous, you're gonna fall in love.
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days is a 2003 romantic comedy film directed by Donald Petrie, starring Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey. It is based on a short cartoon book of the same name by Michele Alexander and Jeannie Long.
Two weeks ago, I rounded up some of the top 12 must-see romantic comedies of the '80s, with a promise of the best '90s rom-coms to follow. But then this... Two weeks ago, I rounded up some of the top 12 must-see romantic comedies of the '80s, with a promise of the best '90s rom-coms to follow.
We compiled a list of the 50 best-reviewed romantic comedies of all time according to our adjusted Tomatometer score.
The 1980s were just nine years prior to when The Wedding Singer arrived in theaters, but it already seemed like a distant past well worth mocking.
The Princess Bride Cary Elwes and Robin Wright are Wesley and Buttercup in this fantasy, where they love and lose each other among a backdrop of war, pirates, and ROUSes. Though they'd have been happy tending a farm together, it's action that reunites them, most memorably tumbling down a mountain together.
Four Weddings and a Funeral is a 1994 British romantic comedy film directed by Mike Newell. It was the first of several films by screenwriter Richard Curtis to feature Hugh Grant, and follows the adventures of Charles (Grant) and his circle of friends through a number of social occasions as they each encounter romance.
50 Best Romantic Comedies of All Time Like love itself, compiling our list of the 50 best romantic comedies was a little complicated. We utilized a weighted system that factors in both Tomatometer and number of reviews, and each movie needed 20 reviews to qualify.
Find out what makes the 1998 romantic comedy, There's Something About Mary, among the best on GAYOT's list.
The movie, 'The Proposal' has all what it takes to make a great romantic comedy. This movie has: love, lies, chemistry, tension, and of course humor.
500 Days of Summer (stylized as (500) Days of Summer) is a 2009 American romantic comedy-drama film by first time director Marc Webb from a screenplay written by Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber, and produced by Mark Waters.
You've Got Mail is a 1998 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Nora Ephron, co-written by Nora and Delia Ephron, and starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan. The film is about two people in an online romance who are unaware that they are also business rivals.
But 40-Year-Old Virgin was just the beginning, as Apatow would go on to produce a number of other tonally similar comedies that shaped and molded the genre, including 2008’s Forgetting Sarah Marshall.—which was released a decade ago today.
6. '50 First Dates' Six years after they teamed up for The Wedding Singer, Adam Sandler reunited with Drew Barrymore for another romantic comedy. This time around, Barrymore played a woman that suffers from amnesia due to a car accident.
Groundhog Day. Directed by: Harold Ramis. Starring: Andie MacDowell, Bill Murray. Genres: Romantic Comedy, Low Fantasy, Comedy. Rated the #3 best film of 1993, and #278 in the greatest all-time movies (according to RYM users).
Silver Linings Playbook is a 2012 American romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by David O. Russell. It was adapted from the novel The Silver Linings Playbook, by Matthew Quick. The film stars Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence, with Robert De Niro, Jacki Weaver, Chris Tucker, Anupam Kher, and Julia Stiles in supporting roles.
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Alex Hitchens, aka "The Date Doctor," is an expert when it comes to every relationship but his own. In the romantic comedy Hitch, he learns that his
One of the most classic romantic comedies, Audrey Hepburn's Holly Golightly falls for her dashing neighbor while we fall for her, her lifestyle, and her every
Roman Holiday is a 1953 American romantic comedy film directed and produced by William Wyler. It stars Gregory Peck as a reporter and Audrey Hepburn as a royal princess out to see Rome on her own. Hepburn won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance; the screenplay and costume design also won.
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This tragic story with a happy ending and a lot of happy moments throughout the journey is one of the best romantic comedies in years. And, just like "Knocked Up" shaped the next wave of comedies, "The Big Sick" will hopefully do so as well — which is a good sign for the future of rom coms, and Nanjiani and Gordon's careers as a screenwriting duo.
A delightful romantic comedy about a lesbian werewolf hits a frat party, plus Deadpool and more in this week’s best comics.
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At the beginning, after his work colleagues find out that Andy Stitzer (Steve Carell) is a virgin, a lot of the humour comes from contrasting Carell to his sexually confident ‘friends’: Carell is a loser compared to his normal friends.
Roxanne is one of those smart comedies that seems to effortlessly balance complex, often serious themes of romantic attraction, self-esteem, intelligence and the art of conversation with hilarious pratfalls, physical comedy and sight gags.
13 Going on 30 is a 2004 American fantasy romantic comedy film that was released in 2004. The film follows a 13-year-old girl who wants nothing more than to be popular. During her 13th birthday party, she’s embarrassed when the popular kids ditch her. She hides in the closet, wishing she were 30.
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There are nice rom-com movies around,and these are very few 1.Leap Year 2.Brooklyn 3.Stuck in Love 4.Chasing Liberty 5.Love,Rosie 6.The Vow 7.About Time 8.Spectacular now 9.The Wedding Date Hope you will like it !
It Happened One Night is truly a timeless example of the romantic comedy, and with the snappy dialogue, outrageous Colbert/Gable chemistry, and familiar (but well executed) tropes, it’s always an entertaining film to watch… no matter if it’s 1936 or 2016.
More than that, it's the quintessential romantic comedy. I adore Nia Vardalos without reservation, and she is utter perfection in this. She is both a talented writer and actress, and I think that, although this centers around a Greek family, it's true for any family that blends itself when a marriage occurs.
“The Big Sick,” the indie-crossover hit of the summer, is the sharpest, funniest, and most touching romantic comedy in a long time, and that should be a shot in the arm for romantic comedies everywhere. Except for on
The fact that Jack Nicholson’s charm is in the mix makes Something’s Gotta Give my top-of-the-heap romantic comedy favourite. My friend J. says she doesn’t usually like Keaton because she is just so over the top when she’s acting.
Definitely, Maybe Ryan Reynolds has three worthy love interests in this rom-com that is also a bit of a mystery, since he's telling his daughter (Abigail Breslin) about her mother in a roundabout way.
50 Best Romantic Comedies of All Time Like love itself, compiling our list of the 50 best romantic comedies was a little complicated. We utilized a weighted system that factors in both Tomatometer and number of reviews, and each movie needed 20 reviews to qualify.
Sixteen Candles is an older movie now, but it’s one of the most iconic romantic movies of the 1980s. The film premiered in theaters in 1984. John Hughes wrote and directed Sixteen Candles.
That said, the best romantic comedies offer something for the men as well. Perhaps the perfect example for a film that balanced that notion was Jerry Maguire — a film that was both a romantic and sports comedy.
50 Best Romantic Comedies of All Time Like love itself, compiling our list of the 50 best romantic comedies was a little complicated. We utilized a weighted system that factors in both Tomatometer and number of reviews, and each movie needed 20 reviews to qualify.
Wedding Crashers Sure, it's a total buddy comedy, but it's also a romantic comedy since its two endearing man-children finally meet women (Isla Fisher and Rachel McAdams) who can keep up with them. Watch it now.
Roxanne is a modern-day update of Cyrano de Bergerac, which explains Steve Martin's sizable schnoz. He plays C.D. Bales, who writes beautiful love letters to Roxanne (Daryl Hannah) on her new boyfriend's behalf. For those who have read Cyrano, this movie ends on a much more upbeat note, thankfully.
Directed by Joel Zwick and starring Nia Vardalos (who also wrote the script), John Corbett and Michael Constantine, My Big Fat Greek Wedding is a classic in romantic comedies and its appeal has crossed over to different genres.
Music and Lyrics. Directed by: Marc Lawrence. Starring: Drew Barrymore, Hugh Grant. Genres: Romantic Comedy, Music. Rated the #534 best film of 2007.
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