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Finally a romantic comedy about what it is really like to be a thirty-something single female in a modern world.  So Bridget is a little more obsessed (NOT!) than most women with her weight, lack of sex during the peak years of her sexuality, the poor choices in men available and her gorgeous boss (Hugh Grant).  The boss is Mr. Mega Wrong in may ways. 

Unfortunately, Mr. Right (Colin Firth) lets his mother dress him and has no idea how to be assertive in love.  Bridget Jones' Diary is the romantic comedy in reverse: girl gets boy, girl loses boy, girl realizes its true love running through the snow barefoot in her underwear. 
Some guys get this movie (if he gets Ally McBeal he'll get Bridget Jones) and some can't believe that when women are alone we can really eat a half gallon of ice cream and be that neurotic about the absence of love...or that stupid in our choices!
 

A wartime romantic comedy of errors this movie reminds us of how much this country’s moral expectations have changed in just 60 years. 

What happens when a young woman just wants to send the troops off happy and gets too drunk only to find herself married…and pregnant the next morning? 

Only she doesn’t remember getting married, who she married or most of the evening!  In 1944, single motherhood is still taboo and how Trudy (Betty Hutton) solves this dilemma and ultimately gives birth to a Miracle in Morgan’s Creek will have you chuckling all night long.

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1998: PG-13
Starring:
Adam Sandler, Drew Barrymore, Allen Covert, Christine Taylor, Matthew Glave, Ellen Albertini Dow
Director:
Frank Coraci
96 minutes

The Wedding Singer

Adam Sandler has become the Pied Piper of Gen-Y comedy and bathroom humor, but this movie is a little more sophisticated and appeals to an older audience.  Part of the fun of this movie is looking at the fashions of the mid-1980’s.   Okay, the hair was a bit big but they weren’t as bad as the stuff from the 70’s that today’s teens think are hip.  Look for eighties fashions to retread about circa 2005.

Robbie (Adam Sandler) is a less than talented singer at weddings who falls for the betrothed Julia (Drew Barrymore).  Both are currently in bad relationships, but trying to keep them together.  Of course, love conquers all, with the help of Billy Idol of course.  Gen Xer’s will love the flashback to High School/college soundtrack and Boomers will empathize with the situation and lament their free wheeling yuppie days. Overall, you’ll laugh at the movie and the fact you once dressed like that!

1940: G
Starring:
Ralph Bellamy, Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell,
Director:
Howard Hawks
92 Minutes

But, if you like the underdog winning and smart dialogue, this classic will leave you in stitches…but your English better be up to par!  Even if it had subtitles, we don’t think you could read them fast enough to keep up!

This is an original screenplay that is a pure delight.  Giselle (Amy Adams) is a soon to be princess who is sent from fairytale land by her proposed evil mother-in-law queen (Susan Sarandon) into modern day New York City where she falls off a billboard she mistakes for a palace into a divorce attorney's (Patrick Dempsey) arms. 

His daughter is convinced Giselle is a really princess and Giselle, with her fairytale land sensibilities proceeds to charm Dempsey.  Meanwhile Prince Charming with a talking chipmunk  comes after her followed by a henchmen of the evil mother-in-law and the games really begin.  Silly, funny and very romantic, this is a wonderful film that will leave you feeling all the warm fuzzies you can handle and dreaming of 'Happily Ever After'!

 

Clueless

Janeane Garofalo (Abby) is the every-woman’s hero and her satirist attitude is played to the hilt in this ménage de troi of mistaken identities and stand-in’s.  Abby, an on air personality falls for a voice of a call in caller, Brian (Ben Chaplin). 

Sparks ignite and he asks her out.  The problem is, she has described herself as tall, blond and slender, which she’s not.  Convincing her neighbor (Uma Thurman) to go out with him for her, a dating-talking love triangle begins and Brian begins to think this woman Abby has a split personality, or worse.  Ultimately, which woman will get the guy?

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You've Got Mail

Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks join together again with the incredible chemistry that worked so well in Sleepless in Seattle.  This movie is good, but not quite the caliber of the first.  Still, it's worth watching and it is definitely the best thing that has ever come along for the online dating industry.  The story centers around a small boutique bookseller (Meg Ryan) and the mega superstore bookseller (Tom Hanks) who moves one of his Barnes and Noble style stores into her neighborhood and ultimately puts her out of business.   Unbeknownst to both, the online flirtation they have been engaging in is with each other.
 

Sixteen Candles

What if you are about to turn sixteen years old and everyone in your family has forgotten about your birthday because they are consumed with your sister’s wedding to a total loser?  And what if while all of this is going on you’ve got the biggest crush on the BMOC, but you’re being chased by the school’s biggest dweeb, who happens to sell tickets to the underclassmen for a buck to see your underwear? 

During the 1980’s, Director John Hughes was the king of teen angst. Sixteen Candles is one of his best.  Others include The Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink, and Ferris Bueller's Day Off.  For anyone who has ever had a crush, lived through humiliation in high school or just plain survived their teens, regardless of age, you’ll love and relate to this smartly written and wonderfully acted comedy about first crushes and first loves.

The Apartment

While most of the women Baxter's superiors lure to the tiny den of seduction look like brassy bar girls who've been this route before and know what they're doing, Kubelik is at heart a sweet (if disappointed) girl who desperately wants to be loved and who has made the mistake of falling for the duplicitous J.D. Sheldrake (Fred MacMurray). 

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A modest romantic comedy that proved an unlikely Oscar powerhouse, has weathered the passage of time far better than most '80s films.

The virtuoso performances certainly figure in the picture's enduring appeal: Top-billed Cher and supporting player Olympia Dukakis both walked off with Oscars, while up-and-comer Nicolas Cage and character actor Danny Aiello also delivered hilarious turns.

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