Wow. Thanks for the suggestions, everyone. I received so many recommendations for romantic comedies that I can’t even fit them all into one year. I needed 52 movies and I received suggestions for over eighty.
The list so far:
10 Things I Hate About You
13 Going on 30
27 Dresses
The 40-Year-Old Virgin
50 First Dates
(500) Days of Summer
Adam’s Rib
Along Came Polly
Amelie
Annie Hall
The Apartment
Bedrooms and Hallways
Better Off Dead
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Bride Wars
Bridget Jones’s Diary
Bringing Up Baby
Calamity Jane
Camille
Center Stage
Chasing Amy
Clueless
Definitely, Maybe
Eagle vs. Shark
Eat, Pray, Love
Elizabethtown
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Go Fish
He’s Just Not that Into You
High Fidelity
Hitch
His Girl Friday
How Do You Know
It Happened One Night
The Jane Austen Book Club
Juno
Kate and Leopold
Kicking and Screaming
Kissing Jessica Stein
Knocked Up
The Lady Eve
Lars and the Real Girl
Latter Days
Laws of Desire
Love Actually
Love and Basketball
Love on a Diet
Mansfield Park
Miami Rhapsody
Party Girl
The Philadelphia Story
Pretty Woman
The Princess Bride
The Real Blonde
Roxanne
Sabrina
Saving Face
Secretary
Sex and the Single Girl
Shall We Dance?
Shampoo
She’s Gotta Have It
Shop Around the Corner
Show Me Love (aka Fucking Amal)
Simple Men
Sleepless in Seattle
So I Married an Axe-Murderer
Some Like it Hot
Someone Like You
Something New
Splash
Step Up, Step Up 2, Step Up 3
Stranger than Fiction
Strictly Ballroom
The Thin Man movies
Tillie’s Punctured Romance
Together
Topper
Top Hat
Trust
The Unbelievable Truth
What’s Up, Doc?
When Harry Met Sally…
Working Girl
Now I have to decide how to narrow this down. I could start by eliminating the ones I have already seen, but some of those are movies that I would really like to revisit and analyze from a different perspective.
I also have to consider how I’m going to organize this viewing. I think I’m going to look at romantic comedies throughout history, beginning with the oldest film on the list and working my way to the present. I’m open to other suggestions, though.
And hey, just so I have even more variety and choice, keep the recommendations coming. From the looks of it, this list is still short on male/male romances. Maybe I’ll get enough suggestions to take me through two years.
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A good male/male romance is “Plan B” from Argentina. I also liked the French “Love Songs”, which is actually a musical. Of course calling them both male/male romances is kind of spoilery.
Narrow down by grouping similar films and picking one. This subject is too broad to include three Apatow films. You’ve got three Meg Ryans, four about dance (though Simply Ballroom is a little outside the standard formula) and a bunch that double up on subject, theme, or actors.
A silly male/male romance is the The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green.
My favorite male/male romantic comedy is The Wedding Banquet, hell it might be one of my favorite movies ever.
Oh oh and I forgot to rec Just Wright with Common/Queen Latifah/Paula Patton, I liked it when I saw it last year, and it is unsurprisingly from the same director of Something New, Sanaa Hamri a non white woman working behind the camera in Hollywood and doing this genre better than almost everyone, in that there is this genuine warmth and heart at the core of her POV. But if you only do one stick with Something New!
What about Flick’s Chicks?
I saw it was excluded from the list. Any reasons?
No reason, just accidental oversight. Thanks!
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