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The best rom-com in your opinion?
I've been saying for years that When Harry Met Sally was the Citizen Kane of the romantic comedy genre.
Last night I watched While You Were Sleeping for the umpteenth time. It’s the Sandra Bullock, Bill Pullman film were she saves a strangers life, he goes into a coma and in the confusion at the hospital she is mistaken for his fiancée.
It’s a better film than When Harry Met Sally.
Ergo: While You Were Sleeping is the Citizen Kane of the romantic comedy genre. It’s got great, likable actors working from a great, very solid script. The film is very near perfect.
The biggest complaint I can dredge up is that a few musical cues are a little treacly, but those moments last for seconds and don't go too far into sugary tweeness. The thing I dislike most about romantic comedies is any unsubtle orchestral music and the constant use of easy listen Rat Pack style crooner music. Didn’t American Beauty kill that music? I’ve abandoned more than a few rom-coms within five minutes because of the music (Norah Ephron seriously needs a new CD collection).
What’s your favourite?
(And did you notice I used the word “ergo”? Impressed? Or did I use it wrong?)
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When Harry Met Sally Is My Favourite
closely followed by Groundhog Day not heard of While You Were Sleeping I'll have to check it out
Chasing Amy.
.
but it's not romantic
or particularly funny.
It's both.
It's sweet, hilarious and - sure - doesn't follow all the narrative conventions of rom-com, but I still think it definitely is one. I don't think its bleak and uncomfortable moments detract from that, but it's all taste and opinion, innit?
It's one of my favourite films of any genre, actually. Right up there. Top 5, definitely.
but what about Amy's whiny voice?
Also I think hillarious is pushing it and the funny bit's aren't from the main characters (there's abit about star wars I think what am I saying it's a Kevin Smith film there's always a bit about Starwars)and the bleak bits are cruel and clumsy. Understand if you like it but it's not a romcom even a postmodern one.
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Sorry Chris
I think that's twaddle! The notion that you can state categorically that Chasing Amy is not a romcom is bewildering, given that, for the many people who love it, it is both romantic and funny (and you don't deny the latter).
I'll grant you Joey Lauren Adams has a squeaky voice that could easily grate (personally I like her, but what the heck).
I'm not alone.
Doesn't Kevin Smith get annoyed when people/airlines
comment on the size of his pants and what's contained their in (poncey or otherwise)) making him a hostage to fortune on that account. I notice "whiney" Amy didn't win any awards!! tee hee it's still not a "rom-com".
I'm with Bob all the way
it was going to get my vote too. Any fillum with Jay & Silent Bob has to be a comedy and it was a story of a romance albeit one gone wrong.
His Girl Friday
Not sure whether it entirely fits in your genre, but more laughs per minute than anything this side of Airplane, and a proper romance. Featuring pauses throughout so that the audience has time to recover before the next Cary Grant zinger- now that's confident writing. A true classic.
Annie Hall
It's a prototype rom-com isn't it? Anyway, that's my favourite.
I've never actually seen When Harry Met Sally all the way through.
Woody
I know Annie Hall's the one that got all the accolades, but i think i prefer Play It Again Sam, by a nose. Both are Allen in his purple patch though.
I was lucky enough to see Annie Hall
last week at our local Picturehouse Cinema. It was a real treat.
Hmmm...
It's Romantic and it's a Comedy (of sorts) so I'm going to go with The Princess Bride.
Also, I want one of these
the 'nametag' says 'Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya etc etc'
I am tempted
to make someone do a reading from the Princess Bride at my wedding. It would begin (after a slight pause):
"MAWWIDGE ...
... iss a dweeam wiffin a dweeam"
Have an up arrow as comission for securing one more sale of that T-shirt.
Make it two
Great film
But the coming back from the dead scene with Billy Crystal is a false note. Not a sentence you get to write every day
In this month's....
....Best & Worst, (500) Days Of Summer. Fantastic film, up there with High Fidelity. Two rom-coms for boys.
Beaten to it
But I was going to say either Groundhog Day or Chasing Amy. The first is a genuine classic, despite featuring Andy McDowell. The second is daft, crude, very funny and properly romantic, despite featuring Ben Affleck.
Never seen While you were sleeping, mind.
I like Four Weddings and a Funeral.
Seriously. When that comes on telly I'm there till the end. My critical faculties fail me when that comes on.
Naturally Picture Perfect starring Jennifer Aniston is a worthy contender for greatest film of all time. To hell with Cary Grant and Rosalyn Russell, Aniston and Bacon trump them every time. Can't wait for One Day.
Some of what I have written may not be true.
I have seen While You Were Sleeping. I really liked it, but then again I fancied Sandra Bullock something rotten at the time...
Four Weddings is amazing.
It really is such an accomplished little film. It's hard to fault, apart from that bloody woman, and even she's just about bearable until the very end, at which point she makes you want to lay about you with a flamethrower.
Is Andie McDowall crap?
I hadn't noticed.
me neither
I too have an unhealthy pleasure i watching FWAAF. I'm a When Harry guy too. I'd chuck in "Green card" which I also ought to hate but can't help liking.
Nothing unhealthy about it
Aren't we edging close to the dreaded "guilty pleasure" territory here, guys? Four Weddings is a bloody good film, end of; no need to suspend critical faculties. I've got more laughs out of that film than all but a handful of films. And I adore When Harry Met Sally; I consider it pretty much the perfect romantic comedy; and I think it's right up their with Woody Allen's considerable best. The chemistry between Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan is a delight; and there are sooo many great lines. Just one example:
Sally: So, if you didn't find a woman attractive, you could be friends with her.
Harry: No, you pretty much want to nail them too.
Another vote for Four Weddings
and I have defended it before on these boards. Great film, pitch perfect.
Agree
Yes I too like FWAAF and Harry/Sally - I just meant green Card has a pretty daft plot and some ghastly scenes (the piano dinner party, for example) but Andy McD and Depardieu are excellent and overall it works.
Sorry can't abide FWAAF
Expertly executed cliches by great actors - and Andie Mcdowell - but essentially toe curling grovelling at the feet of Englands unutterably inadequate and worthless ruling classes. I thought Bridget Jones was far better because it had far more of a go at the bastards while taking some genuine pleasure in their equally genuine style
"Ruling classes"
Oh please.
The characters in the film
Seem to me to occupy a tiny tiny slice of privileged society. Perhaps some of them are merely middle class hangers on. And I am not being entirely serious but I really can't be doing with that tiny Richard Curtis world - fair play to him as a man though
Edited
...for long windedness. Anyway, thanks FG. I needed a chuckle. ;-)
Richardcurtisland
With you all the way, Rosbif.
Can't add any more. You've summed it up far better than I could.
Gregory's Girl
is the first thing that comes to mind. It's a rom and it's a com - not certain it's a rom-com.
Perhaps a better genre fit is its younger Scottish cousin "Restless Natives".
His Girl Friday - like Bringing Up Baby - is world class. The problem with these films as rom-coms is that it's the bloke you're falling for...
Does doin' bad things
gie ye warts?
An under-appreciated gem and - at the risk of damning with faint praise - possibly Big Country's finest moment.
I think it came after Gregory though.
One more time to Strathalt?
Restless Natives is great.
But it's no Gregory's Girl. And it's no Local Hero either.
I have fond memories of Restless Natives
But I haven't seen it for years. I'm worried if I see it again it'll ruin fond memories. Does that sound daft?
Nope. I had the same
Nope.
I had the same reaction before I bough the DVD. Which now gets regualr rotation.
I watched it and my reaction was that I could recognize its flaws, but loved it, warts and all. It has a very idiosyncratic charm.
And Teri Lally.
Same here
And I was astonished to find that one scene takes place quite near my current abode.
Bringing Up Baby
Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn (utterly loopy and completely wonderful), dinosaur bones and mistaken identity in the form of two leopards.
Will happily agree with His Girl Friday - fantastic film. And I'll also throw in The Awful Truth for a Cary Grant trifecta.
See, I'd go slightly later
See, I'd go slightly later for Cary Grant's rom-com apogee. Operation Petticoat or Father Goose? Hell of a decision.
The difficulty of this is the sliding scale of what constitutes a "rom-com" I suppose. What's the definitive Rom to Com quotient?
It's definitely weighted way more "Com" than "Rom", but I can watch "What's Up Doc?" over and over.
Oops, I just went for Father Goose down there...
Not really a romantic comedy as such but Grant's Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House is a wonderful film. The first 20 minutes when he's trying to get dressed in his teeny flat has me rolling on the floor laughing (gee, you'd have thought someone would have come up with a TMFTL-esque acronym for that)
Bonus points for mentioning "What's Up Doc?"
"What's Up Doc?" - one of the most underrated/taken for granted comedies ever made, a great movie.
I'll throw "The Sure Thing" into the melee - the music dates it, but it has John Cusack at his Cusack-est, the script is hilarious without sounding forced, and there's even a nice message, of sorts. If anyone's avoided it because of the standard issue babe-in-bikini sleeve, check it out, you won't be sorry.
And I maintain "When Harry Met Sally", from the credits & music down, is effectively Woody Allen's Greatest Hits, as performed by a (very good) covers band.
I loooove What's Up Doc
It is simply one of the funniest movies I have ever seen. Stomachache, sore face from laughing level funny.
"Snakes have a deathly fear of.....ceramic tile."
Not sure if it fits the genre but Shakespeare in Love is one of my all time favorite movies.
A plethora of ups for you, sir
What's Up Doc is the right answer.
The finest film ever made.
Startlingly funny from credit sequence to credit sequence.
Kenneth Mars is in it. Barbara Streisand is a total fox in it. And funny. It's Madeleine Kahn's finest work.
Favourite bits of many are the aftermath of the fire in Howards' room. The manager arrives. 'Sir, I have a message from the staff of what remains of my hotel', 'Yes? What is it?', 'Goodbye'. 'Oh. Was that the whole message?'
The courtroom scene with the grumpy judge. Just find it and watch it.
One of the judge's best bits
"See these blue pills. They're to remind me to take the yellow pills. They're afraid to tell me what the yellow pills are for."
I'm paraphrasing from memory. And laughing as I remember.
I've realised I only have a VHS copy
And no VCR in the house anymore.
To an onlne DVD vendor and pronto
'Who are you?'
'I'm a doctor'
'A doctor? A doctor of what?'
'Of music!'
'Can you fix a stereo?
'No'
'Well shut up then'...
You need to have seen the movie to get it, but...
"I'd like some aspirin please, with Bufferin?"
- "That'll be $78, please."
"How much without Bufferin?"
Reminds me of the gag from a source I don't remember
Bloke is talking with his vet
The vet says "I'm afraid your cat is very ill and needs an operation"
Bloke: "How much will that cost?"
"About 500 pounds"
"And how much is another cat?".
I saw this
at the cinema with my family when it came out. I would have been about 11. I thought my father was going to explode from laughing. It was infectious - we were all hooting.
I saw it again on telly, alone, over ten years later and hated it. Not a chuckle, not a smile.
Don't know why that was. It could be that between 1971 and circa 1983 I came to despise Streisand. I can't stand anything she has even done.
Truth about cats and dogs...
I remember being amusing and I usually detest the genre.
Good call
I particularly like Ben Chaplin, he doesn't get as many roles as he should.
It's a watchable film
But let's face it, Jeannene Garofolo is by far the more attractive one. To me, anyway. It's totally ludicrous that she shouldn't be able to get a man. She's hardly Rose West. She's funny, smart and pretty. What's not to like?
I thought...
... Rose West had plenty of men?
I thought so too...
then I saw the tattoos. Gruesome.
Knocked Up
Has a good mix of laughs for the boys and soppy stuff for the girls.
500 days of summer
zoay beschmelsauce and a great soundtrack.
Father Goose
No question.
Jack and Sarah
A very likeable film. Also, The Tall Guy has some very funny moments - particularly Elephant! the stage musical of the life of John Merrick.
"London!
City of sin.
London, the town we grew up in.
Just one great big loony-bin. London!"
I love that film.
The Tall Guy
also has one of the most bonkers, erm, bonking scenes committed to celluloid. And having been 13 or so when I first saw it, that's the bit that sticks in my mind, unfortunately.
Pretty Woman...
every time, no contest for me.
Roman Holiday - classic
Before Sunrise/Sunset (not so much com, but well rom) Julie Delpy unbelievably attractive
Green Card -Depardieu is fantastic, as is Bebe Neuwirth
French Kiss - Meg Ryan and Kevin Kline, very funny
Music And Lyrics - Hugh Grant at his best (!) and who can resist Drew Barrymore?
Charade, His Girl Friday, Bringing Up Baby..etc
Annie Hall, Play It Again Sam etc
I love a good rom-com.
Bad rom-coms: most Jennifer Aniston ones and Adam Sandler ones. Just Go With It, her most recent, was revoltingly bad. The cinema was packed of course.
High Fidelity
Does that count?
it does in my universe!
it does in my universe!
The Man With Two Brains
Also has to be in the running for me.
The Tao Of Steve, anyone?
I love this film, which is very low-profile, featuring mostly unknowns, including the highly toothsome Greer Goodman. It's a rom com that is both very funny and very romantic; and as a bonus, it's very intelligently written.
I like that one...
..Where the man and woman start off hating each other, then they sort of realise that they may like each other after all. Then they have a misunderstanding and a blazing row before he realises the error of his ways and races to the airport to profess undying love just as she is leaving for a new job in a foreign city.
Can anyone remember what it's called. On the poster it's the guy and the girl leaning their backs against each other, looking at the camera she looks cross, he looks smug.
It was probably written by Richard Curtis...
or features Owen Wilson in a supporting role.
It's
Roman Holiday for me, every time. Also, partial to Pretty Woman and High Society (I know, I know The Philadephia Story is better but love the corny ending with Satchmo "and that's jazz !"). Another favourite is the brilliant Romuald et Juliette, with Daniel Auteil as the lead, great fun and nice happy ending.
Watched Roman Holiday again with my young daughters recently
They loved it but were upset by the ending which has the terrible inevitability of a dream - its not really a romcom to my mind. I'll check how they feel when they emerge from therapy
i saw it for the first time only a few months ago
and, er, yeah, I was disappointed by the ending. It is a wonderful movie, but I'm not so sure it's a Romantic Comedy either. I thought that Audrey Hepburn was the epitome of chic, but that photo of her smashing the guitar over yer mans head, makes me think that she was a great tomboy as well. Jesus, THAT was sexy...
Right - think i need therapy meself now...
Doc Hollywood
a nice film, with a happy ending. I also like 'Dave' Kevin Kline as POTUS, and the eponymous Dave, plus Sigourney Weaver as FLOTUS. Oh, and 'The American President', Annette Benning and Michael Douglas, which leads on to Romancing the Stone, yes, Jewel of the Nile, not so much.
actually yeah...
Dave and Doc Hollywood are both above average. And Doc Hollywood also gave us Cars, which isn't the hound of a Pixar Movie that you might think. (And it (Cars) is one of Paul Newmans last performances)
Is Lost in Translation a rom-com?
It is my favourite film ever. And good tunes too.
I am a little bit in love with Bill Murray. There. I said it.
It's my favourite too.
You'd be buggered if you had to explain the plot to someone though wouldn't you!
Ditto Scarlett Johansson.
How about...
Lonely newlywed accompanying her photographer husband on a trip to Tokyo meets bored, married TV star and together they embark on a romantic yet unrequited secret odyssey.
Love that film too.
Perfect!
It certainly beats my usual response of "well, nothing really"
Still my favourite film ever though.
Ooooh that's nicely done
You should do that for a living ;-)
No laughing but I really
No laughing but I really enjoyed 'In her shoes' with Toni Collette & Cameron Diaz. Not my genre at all but it was on one Saturday night a few months back & I was mesmerized from the off.
not The Best Ever
but I really liked 'In Search Of A Midnight Kiss' (2007), funny, truthful, warts'n'all loveable, and beautifully filmed in B&W doing for LA what 'Manhattan' does for Manhattan.
It's a good film but not an out and out comedy?
Had a really nice everyday romance about it and not too tidy an ending
are 'Before Sunrise'/'Before Sunset' out and out comedies?
I'd put this in similar ballpark.
no but I would call them all good
romantic films not rom/com. They have humour in them like romance itself but it's the main driving force as in your classic "rom com"
not sure it's the best
but I enjoyed "2-days Paris" recently which is nicely made and written and romantic but not too sickly.
Another gem is "Summertime" by David Lean starring Kathrine Hepburn a slightly bittersweet affair but wondeful escapist fun set in gleaming post war Venice.
Always liked "Roxanne" which is Steve Martin's last good film? It's funny romantic and charming.
Arthur
My favorite film ever. I could watch it every day.
Got a soft spot for
You've Got Mail
Not entirely sure why, and I haven't seen it for a few years. I'm just a sucker for those 'New York in the Fall' scenes.
Oh.
'You've Got Mail' is a very, disturbing movie. It's essentially about a corporate monster who ruins a woman's life and then makes her fall in love with him. It gave me nightmares.
Watch the original instead
The truly wonderful "The Shop Around The Corner" by Ernst Lubitsch.
Jimmy Stewart and Margaret Sullavan and a fantastic cast of funny actors in the supporting roles.
One of my all time favourite movies.
It's a matter of opinion
obviously, but the actual factual correct answer IS Born Yesterday with the awesome Judy Holliday.
Saw a good one at the weekend
Something borrowed. Really enjoyable film plus it has the benefit of starring the extremely sexy Kate Hudson. Need to go for a cold shower.
Kate Hudson...
is carving out a career as a cross between the new Meg Ryan and the new Her Own Mum, basically. I remember watching How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days under considerable duress, but I probably laughed more than I've laughed at a Woody Allen film for the last thirty-odd years.
When harry..
for me too. Also a mention for 'Beautiful Girls' - here's the proof…as it says in the comments, one of the best monologues in movie history
Wow.
loved that when it came out. Must see it again, thanks for the reminder.
Oh yes! First party scene
Oh yes!
First party scene in a film with Jethro Tull... Afghan Whigs as the house band...
maybe not the best but...
I am quite fond of a film called The Wedding Date with Dermot Mulroney and Deborah Messing. It's not genius but it's very sweet,the story is relatively simple but it has some lovely touches and it is set in England so has a lot of english actors. Also, Dermot Mulroney is completely HAWT! If it's on ITV4 I will be found watching it.
Plus, it doesn't Jennifer Aniston OR Owen Wilson, which is a novelty.
Woody Allen's the master in this area.
At least, he used to be: Manhattan, Annie Hall, Play It Again Sam.
Loved Lost In Translation too but there's not much com, it's more rom innit?
Surprised no one's mentioned The Money Pit
Very, very funny and very romantic. Tom Hanks and Shelley Long (from Cheers.) My kids watched it over and over again. We all had sections memorized.
How about Billy Wilder´s The Apartment?
Jack Lemmon is great and Shirley MacLaine talks to someone who´s alive.
Is
The correct answer.
Music and
Lyrics?
I mentioned that up above!
As I said, Hugh is funny and Drew is delectable. The music is great too, all done by the Fountains Of Wayne guys I think.
Charming lead?
Charming lead? Check?
Delectable female lead? Check?
Good music? Check?
I'm willing to waste two hours of my life - again - watching it? Check.
Why, we're talking about "That thing you do"
True.
Another goody. As is Peggy Sue got Married.
oh yeah -
I love That Thing You Do. Another movie with a Fountains of Wayne connection, I think
The Bridget Jones movies
I am completely outnumbered by females in my house so I see these things through their eyes but I genuinely think Hugh Grant is a Proper Actor (anyone seen An Awfully Big Adventure - class) and they are damn good films with a certain amount of the messiness of Real Life - and a bit of class hatred which never goes amiss
Hugh Grant is a Proper Actor
As long as he's playing Hugh Grant. Still, he's made a lot of money doing it. Swine.
French Kiss?
Meg Ryan again, and Kevin Kline with hilarious French accent. Jean Reno in bit part threatens to steal the show
Amelie.
Love it to bits and it's a rom-com in my book.
Is the correct answer !
A fantastic movie. If you haven't seen it, then you should rent it this weekend.
Is the correct answer !
A fantastic movie. If you haven't seen it, then you should rent it this weekend.
One of my favourites
.
Harold & Maude
works on just about every level for me.
If I was pushed and shoved
and I would have to to suffer rom-coms, is A Fish Called Wanda allowed?
If not, Dancer in the Dark.
LA Story
Don't think anyone mentioned this. I know it was when Steve Martin got accused of selling out to join the comedy mainstream but I love it. Especially the bit with the storm. The freeway sign tells him the weather will change his life. He's been having a relationship with Victoria Tennant, who's about to go back to the UK and they've had a row. She's sitting on the plane waiting to take off when a big storm appears, messes up all the radar etc and nothing can fly. Next scene, she's off the plane and pulling up at his house soaking wet and all's well that ends well. Sniff !
What's up
Doc?
When Harry Met Sally isn't even the best rom-com directed by Rob Reiner.
That would be The Sure Thing
allow me to post this late entry
not a sausage James
seems yer on my own :(
I think Foul Play is one of the funniest comedies ever
but romantic ? No. The romance between Chevy and Goldie is just annoying. Mainly because he is annoying...
Sorry! I always thought that Goldie should have shacked up with her nice landlord. OK, he was a bit old, but at least he had a big snake! ;)
was forgetting this favourite
from when Mike Myers was funny.
http://youtu.be/O3TgDBN7wk4
The Graduate
I know, bloody students .... but the first memorable film I ever saw.
Even at ten years old I knew that Katherine Ross needed me to do something to her, I just had no idea what that something was!
Anyone else for The Terminal?
Actually, now I think of it, Mrs BPs favourite is The Lake House with it's time travel mail box.
Danny Rose?
Is Broadway Danny Rose a romantic comedy? Because it I love it. If it doesn't qualify I'll vote for 'Forget Paris' with Billy Crystal, a particular favorite with the FPO and I.
Gets my vote!, .....an
Gets my vote!, .....an overlooked WA classic, and dosen't spring to mind as a rom com, but i suppose it is. More classic Woody anyway.
The Wedding Singer,,,
Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore, both bearable for a change, plus Billy Idol !! The scene where a heartbroken Sandler gets rat-arsed drunk and lets rip with screamed insults and guitar feedback instead of serenading the wedding guests had me in stitches!
nods sagely
yes is brilliant, every sight gag, the cut of a car pulling into a driveway to the sounds of Musical Youth.
Two words
Preston Sturges -
almost anything by him is blessed is genius - but The Lady Eve is sublime. Truly romantic, truly comedic - deft and delightful
Another one for Hugh
Mickey Blue Eyes
An overlooked work of rom-com art. No? Ah, forgeddaboudid...
Adam Sandler funny ????????????????????????????????????
What about Serendipity or The Family Man or The Sure Thing or Say Anything or After Hours or Grosse Point Blank ...... or does the phrase rom-com indicate some of sickly sweet stomach turning goo.
They don't have to include Mr Cusack .... but he is a great comedy actor.
Best orgasm scene " When Harry met Sally " or " Bananas " ? ....
Agreed
Grosse Pointe Blank is one of my all-time favourite films.
Mine too.
DEBBI!
(CLANG!)
I LOVE YOU!
(CLANG!)
AND I KNOW WE CAN MAKE THIS RELATIONSHIP WORK!
(CLANG CLANG!)
This years love?
Just remembered there's a great little brit-flick rom com ive caught a couple of times that follows the fortunes of a group of bed hopping Camdenites....stars Jennifer Eally as a trustafarian and Ian Hart i think, a bit short on facts about this one but think its called "This years love" , but a charming little pic.
Grease.
It's a romance. It's funny. It's also got some great tunes.
Also rather adult
Never having watched it myself, my jaw hit the floor to hear references to gangbangs and 'sloppy seconds' when my then primary-school-age daughter was watching it with her chums. To my intense relief, no awkward questions ensued. Not, I hope, because they were already familiar with the terms...
Garden State
Natalie Portman looking good and the Shins on the soundtrack. It even makes you laugh.
GROSSE POINTE BLANK
it's John Cusack in it, even when its a terrible rom-com (Serendipity), if he's in it it's wonderful. BTW let's skip over Minnie Driver's cod jamaican accent in said film - just like Minnie one wonders "what's that for?"
Swingers - it's all about relationships (well Men and Women interacting) plus is has a huge heart in it plus it captures Jon Favereau before he swallowed a bouncy castle.
Beautiful Thing - gay london teenagers, written by Jonathan Harvey (Gimmie and Corrie) and lashings of Mama Cass. Sweetest scene at the end to " Dream A Little Dream of Me".
The Shop Around the Corner - direct by Ernst Lubitsch with Jimmy Stewart, the template for You Got Mail (don't blame it though).
"Everybody Says I Love You" - the Woody Allen one when everyone breaks into song - I remember the Indian Cab Driver. Woody bags someone young and gorgeous, like you do.
I would add a sub-genre of high school rom-coms:
"Easy A" (recent but very good)
"Pretty in Pink" - Whoa Molly!
"Say Anything" - ITMA
AS GOOD AS IT GETS
forgot this - unlikely Rom Com but it counts.
"BTW let's skip over
Minnie Driver's cod Jamaican accent in said film"
I remember someone wrote into Total Film asking why she said, "You can't some in", while using that accent? Apparently it's a reference to the song playing in the background. More than that I don't know.
According to IMDB
So technically we should cut Minnie Driver some slack. HOWEVER, apparently at school she put my friend Hugh in a laundry basket (he's rather short) and pushed him down some stairs, so I'm not forgiving her.
Some more
Another Lubitsch favourite of mine is Cluny Brown. Hysterically funny and Charles Boyer and Jennifer Jones trying very hard not to fall for eachother ( and failing of course ).
Amazing cast of supporting actors again and full of memorable lines.
The African Queen is another classic that could be called a rom-com.
Prissy Katherine Hepburn reforming the scruffy Humphrey Bogart AND fighting the nazis as well, hooray!
The chemistry between them makes the romance seem utterly plausible.
Cousins, the remake with Isabella Rossellini and Ted Danson, one of the few times where the French original is bettered IMHO.
Return to me - David Duchovny falls in love with Minnie Driver after she's had a heart transplant, not knowing that the heart came from his late wife...sounds rather awful I know, but is actually quite lovely, and with comic relief from director Bonnie Hunt and a bunch of old fogeys playing cards.
Hobson's choice, a David Lean masterpiece where John Mills gets practically kidnapped into marriage by headstrong Brenda de Banzie, and he couldn't have had better luck!
And finally, a little movie that probably isn't very well known; The night we never met. Starring Matthew Broderick and Annabella Sciorra and New York City. And a very funny supporting role by Jeanne Tripplehorn. Not a masterpiece, but a sweet feel-good film with a few really funny scenes in it.
Just watched this
and recommend it: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00l9mt3/Prime/
oh, by the way the film i recommended last night was
'Prime' (2005)
Romantic comedy about a divorced photographer who falls for a much younger man and turns to her therapist for advice...
Stars:Uma Thurman, Meryl Streep and Bryan Greenberg
We were expecting it to be rubbish so was a pleasant surprise how sweet, charming and involving it turned out to be.