Romantic Comedy

Silver Linings Playbook

Everybodyโ€™s mentally ill! A dysfunctional romantic comedy about Pat (Bradley Cooper in his usual flexible...
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Shrek Forever After

If you remember, the original was an apparently traditional fairy tale that made fun of...
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It’s Complicated

A romantic comedy about a divorced woman who finds herself in an affair with a...
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17 Again

A romantic family comedy about a 37-year old guy who gets another chance at his...
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The Proposal

This romantic comedy starring Sandra Bullock as Margaret, a ruthless ladder climbing editor and Ryan...
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The Devil Wears Prada

Comedy. An unfashionable girl gets a job with the Queen of the fashion industry and...
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The Break Up

Romantic Comedy. A live-in couple learn how hard it is to break up when they...
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Last Holiday

Romantic Comedy. Queen Latifah, a retail clerk, discovers she has 3 weeks to live, so...
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Casanova

Period Romantic comedy. Infamous promiscuous adulterer falls in true love with a proto-feminist in 18th...
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Fun with Dick and Jane

Satire Comedy. A Jim Carrey vehicle about a married couple pressured to pursue the American...
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Just Friends

Romantic Comedy. Obese high schooler grows up, gets hot and successful, comes back home 10...
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In Her Shoes

Romantic melodrama. A tale about two sisters, diametrically opposite in personalities and lifestyles, who battle...
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Just Like Heaven

The antidote to Million Dollar Baby. Mark Ruffalo plays a guy grieving over the death...
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My Date with Drew

Recommended. This delightful little cheapo documentary about a Joe Average guy seeking to win a...
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Bewitched

Kinda Recommended. Another brilliant feminist tale written and directed by my favorite female director, Nora...
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Mr. and Mrs. Smith

Recommended. Two Assassins (Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt) are married to each other and donโ€™t...
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Hitch

Recommended with caution. This is a very well written romantic comedy. Lots of great insights...
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Meet the Fockers

Not really recommended. The sequel to the hilarious Meet the Parents. This one is the...
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Little Black Book

Not very recommended. Feminist parable about the unreliability of men for female happiness. But its...
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Spanglish

Kind of Recommended. James Brooks is a brilliant dramedy director. I recommend his stuff because...
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Sideways

Not Recommended. These guys are good filmmakers. About Schmidt was brilliant. Election was naughty, but...
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Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason

Not recommended. I loved the first one because it was a modern version of Pride...
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13 Going on 30

Highly Recommended. This is a great personal film about second chances, about seeing the consequences...
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Napoleon Dynamite

Recommended. Funny little Indie movie about Geeks winning. Quirky, clean, character-driven comedy. Amazingly clean. I...
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The Terminal

Recommended, but not highly. There is just something magical about Tom Hanks to me that...
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Shrek 2

Recommended for adults. Funny. Very funny. A good sequel, which is hard to do. It...
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Jersey Girl

Recommended for adults. I was pleasantly surprised with this one. I had expected the typical...
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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Recommended with caution. Charlie Kaufman, who wrote this movie, also wrote Being John Malkovich, Adaptation,...
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Along Came Polly

Not Recommended. This is a story about a neurotic control clean freak, played by Ben...
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