Romantic Comedy Rated PG-13
“…so bland, lifeless and unimaginative I wanted to poke the screen to make sure it was really there.
Romantic Comedy Rated NR
The dork as romantic-comedy hero is considered to be a contemporary concept – honed by the likes of Tobey Maguire, Steve Carell and Adam Brody – but Jack Lemmon specialized in just such characters decades ago, particularly in The Apartment. A comedy about both romantic and corporate corruption, The Apartment stars Lemmon as C.C.
Romantic Comedy Rated R
“…wants to position itself as a first-date movie, but it’s a first-date movie for those who don’t believe in second ones.
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
“Contrived and hokey where Austen’s work is effortless and romantic…
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,
“Somewhere beneath the forced Southern quirkiness and the icky obstetrician-patient romance, Waitress touches on something interesting about a woman’s misgivings during pregnancy.
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
