ROMANTIC COMEDY
also know as "rom-com"
THE UGLY TRUTH (2009)
Director: Robert Luketic
Main Actors: Katherine Heigl, Gerard Butler
Abby, an uptight television producer, takes control of a morning show segment on modern relationships hosted Mike, her newly acquired chauvinistic colleague, who wants to prove to her the accuracy of his relationship theories.
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MIDNIGHT IN PARIS (2011)
Director: Woody Allen
Main Actors: Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams, Kathy Bates, Marion Cotillard
Set in Paris, the film follows Gil Pender, a screenwriter, who is forced to confront the shortcomings of his relationship with his materialistic fiancée and their divergent goals, which become increasingly exaggerated as he travels back in time each night at midnight. The movie explores themes of nostalgia and mechanism.
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YOU'VE GOT MAIL (1998)
Director: Nora Ephron
Main Actors: Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, Greg Kinnear
This sweet romantic comedy reunites Sleepless In Seattle stars Meg Ryan (plays Kathleen Kelly) and Tom Hanks (plays Joe Fox). He's the owner of a bookstore chain; she's the woman he falls for online. Both are unaware that she runs the little shop his company is trying to shut down. Book superstore magnate and independent book shop owner fall in love in the anonymity of the Internet both blissfully unaware that he's trying to put her out of business.
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THAT AWKWARD MOMENT (2014)
Director: Tom Gormican
Main Actors: Zac Effron, Michael B. Jordan, Miles Teller
Three best friends find themselves where we've all been - at that confusing moment in every dating relationship when you have to decide "So...where is this going?"
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HE'S JUST NOT THAT INTO YOU (2009)
Director: Ken Kwapis
Main Actors: Ginnifer Goodwin, Scarlett Johanson, Ben Affleck, Justin Long, Jennifer Aniston, Bradley Cooper
This Baltimore-set movie of interconnecting story arcs deals with the challenges of reading or misreading human behavior.
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THE BOUNTY HUNTER (2010)
Director: Andy Tennant
Main Actors: Jennifer Aniston, Gerard Butler
The story centres on a bounty hunter, Milo, hired to catch his ex-wife, Nicole, because she skipped bail.
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TWO NIGHT STAND (2014)
Director: Max Nichols
Main Actors: Anna Tipton, Miles Teller
A snowstorm forces two people who made an online connection to unwillingly extend their one-night stand as the blizzard goes through the night.
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TABLE 19 (2017)
Director: Jeffrey Blitz
Main Actors: Anna Kendrick, Lisa Kudrow, Craig Robinson
Eloise, having been relieved of maid of honor duties after being unceremoniously dumped by the best man via text, decides to attend the wedding anyway, only to find herself seated with five fellow unwanted guests at the dreaded Table 19.
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DEFINITELY MAYBE (2008)
Director: Adam Brooks
Main Actors: Ryan Reynolds, Elizabeth Banks, Isla Fischer, Rachel Weisz, Abigail Breslin
A political consultant tries to explain his impending divorce and past relationships to his 11-year-old daughter.
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