Lesser known good rom-coms?

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A Walk in the Clouds, just delightful.

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It Could Happen to You.

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Anonymous wrote:A movie can have both comedy and romance in it and not be a rom-com! It's a specific genre. Things like Princess Bride, Dirty Dancing, Say Anything, 500 Days of Summer, or the Birdcage are not rom-coms!

I agree with you and was thinking that about a lot of movies mentioned here.

But Say Anything? It’s my favorite rom com of all time. It’s also tagged as a romantic comedy (rom com) everywhere. It just happens to be an actual good one and not lame and formulaic.

Conversely, princess bride is action/adventure; The Birdcage is comedy/thriller; and 500 Days of Summer is a rom-com drama. (Some places call say anything a rom-com drama too, so I guess it’s debatable, but you could also say a rom-com drama is still a rom-com.)

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Anonymous wrote:A movie can have both comedy and romance in it and not be a rom-com! It's a specific genre. Things like Princess Bride, Dirty Dancing, Say Anything, 500 Days of Summer, or the Birdcage are not rom-coms!

Here’s Roger Ebert calling Say Anything a romantic comedy back in 1989: https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/say-anything-1989

“This is one of the best films of the year - a film that is really about something, that cares deeply about the issues it contains - and yet it also works wonderfully as a funny, warmhearted romantic comedy.“

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Anonymous wrote:A movie can have both comedy and romance in it and not be a rom-com! It's a specific genre. Things like Princess Bride, Dirty Dancing, Say Anything, 500 Days of Summer, or the Birdcage are not rom-coms!

I agree with you and was thinking that about a lot of movies mentioned here.

But Say Anything? It’s my favorite rom com of all time. It’s also tagged as a romantic comedy (rom com) everywhere. It just happens to be an actual good one and not lame and formulaic.

Conversely, princess bride is action/adventure; The Birdcage is comedy/thriller; and 500 Days of Summer is a rom-com drama. (Some places call say anything a rom-com drama too, so I guess it’s debatable, but you could also say a rom-com drama is still a rom-com.)

I'd agree with this. Rom Com done well is not Hallmark.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A movie can have both comedy and romance in it and not be a rom-com! It's a specific genre. Things like Princess Bride, Dirty Dancing, Say Anything, 500 Days of Summer, or the Birdcage are not rom-coms!

I agree with you and was thinking that about a lot of movies mentioned here.

But Say Anything? It’s my favorite rom com of all time. It’s also tagged as a romantic comedy (rom com) everywhere. It just happens to be an actual good one and not lame and formulaic.

Conversely, princess bride is action/adventure; The Birdcage is comedy/thriller; and 500 Days of Summer is a rom-com drama. (Some places call say anything a rom-com drama too, so I guess it’s debatable, but you could also say a rom-com drama is still a rom-com.)

I'd agree with this. Rom Com done well is not Hallmark.

(And I love Hallmark type movies for what they are. But romcom is broader and Say Anything fits IMHO.)

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Anonymous wrote:French Kiss (1990s). Meg Ryan plays an anxious American, and Kevin Kline pulls off a full French accent and amazing facial hair.

+1 I LOVE this. Bought it on DVD because it was never available on streaming. (maybe is now? I haven't looked in a while)

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Anonymous wrote:Away We Go is one of my favorite movies and no one has heard of it!

I LOVE this movie. however if you are thinking about seeing it with your teen daughter or son be aware the first scene is a very explicit oral sex scene. Which is a bummer because I am dying to watch this with my 15 year old son but not sure we can get past that first scene....

I understand not wanting to watch this with your teen son. But I love it when movies, normalize oral sex on women. For most women, this is the main event and yet TV and movies P in V is always seen as the main event with the women having an orgasm quickly every time when we know in reality that is more rare.

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Anonymous wrote:Sweet home Alabama

I love this one!

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I enjoyed this Danish romantic movie on Netflix. NOT a comedy, but sweet and a little angsty. Male lead is gorgeous.

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Anonymous wrote:I just watched A Perfect Story on Netflix based on the recommendations on this thread - I'd give it a 5.

My recs are The Wedding Date, 10 Things I Hate About You, Love & Basketball, Dirty Dancing, Moonstruck, Say Anything, Princess Bride (random assortment).

For an oldie but goodie, The Way We Were (sigh!).

Your girl is lovely, Hubbell.

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Anonymous wrote:Ever After

My all-time favorite.

There was a time before this movie that I simply could not stomach Drew Barrymore and this was the movie that turned that around for me.
She is delightful in it.

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Anonymous wrote:It Could Happen to You.

I wanted to like this one.
But Rosie Perez and her nasal shrieking combined with the Briget Fonda’s faux-naive overacting opposite Nicholas Cage just….being too sappy even for Nicholas Cage.
It’s was all too much.

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Anonymous wrote:The Switch with Jen Aniston and Jason Bateman

Hilarious movie!

There’s another lighthearted rom com Jennifer Anniston one that I enjoyed called Picture Perfect. (With Jay Mohr and Kevin Bacon) turns out she was actually pretty good at the rom com genre……

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Anonymous wrote:Sliding Doors
Only You

I love Sliding Doors

Watched this with my teen a few nights ago. Cringe.
And the updated haircut is soooooo late-90s “chic” it was so so so so bad.