Directed by Frank Capra and winner of five academy awards, including Best Picture, It Happened One Night stars Claudette Colbert as Ellie Andrews, a spoiled heiress who flees her overbearing father. While on the run among the common folk, she’s helped by the street smarts of Peter Warne (Clark Gable), a down-on-his-luck reporter who

Johnny Depp – softly comic, genuinely romantic, all seemingly on a whim – nicely embodies the tone of this quirky little romantic fable, in which Depp plays a young man who believes he is the world’s greatest lover and Marlon Brando is the doctor who intends to cure him of his amorous delusion. Of course,

Mark Ruffalo’s scruffy irritability makes for just the right tonic to Reese Witherspoon’s latest romantic comedy, which otherwise consists of as much cotton-candy fluff as might be expected. She plays a dear, departed emergency room doctor who haunts her former apartment – and the sad sack (Ruffalo) who has moved in. When these two team

Prime has the distinct feel of a favor. This wafer-thin romantic comedy offers nothing to distinguish itself except for the fact that Meryl Streep and Uma Thurman grace its cast. As the Jewish therapist to Thurman’s recently divorced New Yorker, Streep is more than willing to embrace her comic side, especially when her character discovers

Kate Hudson plays a women’s magazine writer testing out the how-to article of the title, while Matthew McConaughey plays an advertising executive who has bet colleagues he can make any woman fall in love with him in little more than a week. Wry observations about the war of the sexes could be gleaned from such

Like the Coen brothers’ Intolerable Cruelty, this aims to recreate the witty glamour of classic screwball comedies by setting a romance within the world of divorce. Pierce Brosnan and Julianne Moore, as opposing divorce attorneys who fall for each other, work up only a television series’ level of chemistry, when a movie deserves stars who