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10 Romantic Comedies I Don’t Hate
This is hard to believe, but I have a friend, a straight man, who LOVES romantic comedies, and sees them all. He used to ask me to come along, then I’d roll my eyes, he’d call me a snob, I’d question his taste, and we’d go off to our corners to sulk. The truth is, I’m a sucker for happy endings in a love story, like most of humanity, but I can’t relax into films that ask me to suspend my disbelief so much so as to require a lobotomy. Occasionally, there are romcoms that I actually enjoy. Here are ten of my favorites, post 1960 (in no particular order). What are yours?
As Good As It Gets, 1997, directed by James L. Brooks
Groundhog Day, 1993, directed by Harold Ramis
The Apartment, 1960, directed by Billy Wilder
Annie Hall, 1977, directed by Woody Allen
Jerry Maguire, 1996, directed by Cameron Crowe
Something’s Gotta Give, 2003, directed by Nancy Meyers
Knocked Up, 2007, directed by Judd Apatow
About a Boy, 2002, directed by Chris and Paul Weitz
Shakespeare in Love, 1998, directed by John Madden
A Fish Called Wanda, 1988, directed by Charles Crichton and John Cleese
Image: Fast-Forward Through the Love Scenes, 2009, by Clare Grill. If you’re in Portland, check out her show at the Froelick Gallery through October 2.
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The Apartment is wonderful! I bumbled upon it during a late insomniac night of TV surfing and immediately stopped surfing.
Thank you SO much for not mentioning Eat Pray Love. I am just disgusted with the whole EPL hysteria.
Christina