I want a rom com to watch right now!

[Hamlette]

Yes, I watch rom coms. And I need them now, more then ever. I can't watch the news.

I like, and have watched over the last few horrible days/weeks/months:
Love Actually
Pretty Woman
Briget trio
You've got Mail (not a fan of Sleepless in Seattle)
Man Up

You get the drift. I need more......yes, not good cinema but works for me when I need to escape.

Have I missed something good?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. I loathe rom-coms, but I get not wanting to watch the news.

We all have our own escapes. I might just read dark Scandinavian murder mysteries and drink.

[hlthe2b]

2. I'm too cynical right now... will stick with animal videos...

[Zoonart]

3. I highly recommend...

Love Actually.

[Hamlette]

4. My favorite. I've watched it twice this season already. See? I'm desperate.

[Zoonart]

5. okay...

How about Hoilday with Cameron Diaz and Jude Law? Or... on Netflix: Butter. Not a rom-com, but funny and different.

[Hamlette]

7. I watched Holiday last week, I'll give Butter a try.

[IADEMO2004]

6. I have two DVR's full of rom/coms

My opiates

[unc70]

8. I binge on UK, Aussie mysteries

All that stuff on Acorn TV, where all you have to worry about is who-done-it. I don’t have to think very hard and can just zone out. All the old favorites: Morse, Lewis, Endeavour, Midsomer, Death in Paradise, Miss Fisher, Dr Blake, etc.

I agree about Love Actually. Will watch it again in a couple of weeks. Laughing just think about the pageant costumes.

[Hamlette]

9. There was a lobster at the birth of Christ?

duh

[gratuitous]

10. Libeled Lady

His Girl Friday
Either of the first two Thin Man movies
Desk Set, if only for the early computer co-star; but it is Hepburn and Tracy

[Hamlette]

11. on it, thanks

I usually not fond of old movies but I'll give them a try.

[gratuitous]

16. Definitely try Libeled Lady, if you try only one

I think you'll be pleasantly surprised by the story and the quick-as-a-whip wisecracking byplay of Jean Harlow and William Powell. Myrna Loy and Spencer Tracy round out the leads.

Little gems are supplied by Walter Connolly as the paterfamlias and E.E. Clive in a small but important scene.

[rurallib]

25. Arsenic and Old Lace would fit nicely in that set.

[IADEMO2004]

12. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

Mr. Right
A Good Year
Loves Kitchen
Something New
The Closer You Get
Serendipity
Definitely Maybe
Tumbledown
High Fidelity
Sleeping With Other People
Tamara Drewe
Undertaking Betty
Four Weddings and a Funeral
As Good as it Gets

[byronius]

28. Serendipity gets my vote for best romcom ever. High Fidelity is a close second.

[Hamlette]

35. never seen it, on the list.

[Thor_MN]

55. Serendipity is great. The other day I thought about while talking a walk

and it was on Direct TV later that day. Which meant I had to watch it.

Romcom is NOT my genre, but Serendipity is a movie that I can endorse completely.

[Ohiya]

13. Have you seen "The Rewrite" with Hugh Grant

We enjoyed it recently.

[Hamlette]

17. I do like Hugh

easy on the eyes

[Hamlette]

39. Just watched it! It's great!!!!

thanks for the recommendation.

[Ohiya]

42. Glad you liked it!

We had never heard of it, but we found it at the video store and thought we'd give it a try and we were happy we did! .

[sarge43]

14. Bull Durham

Yes I know, Sarandon isn't a fave around DU these days, but she brings it in this film and the rest of the cast keeps up with her.

It's a rom-com for grown ups.

[Sanity Claws]

19. Kevin Costner looked so fine in that movie.

[sarge43]

20. He did indeed

That look he gave Sarandon when he was painting her toenails. I had to retire to my Victorian Fainting Couch - great googly moogly.

[TexasBushwhacker]

23. That was Tim Robbins first big role too n/t

[applegrove]

29. Loved his speech there. Swoon.

[TexasBushwhacker]

15. I binged on all 6 seasons of The Mindy Project on Hulu

I loved it. The first 3 seasons are the best, and then season 6 to wrap things up.

[Hamlette]

32. great suggestion, I'll give it a try.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

18. Joe vs The Volcano 🌋

[demgrrrll]

21. Great movie one of my favorites.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

22. Watch it a couple of times a year!

[Hamlette]

31. I'd forgotten about that....on the list, thanks!

[Floyd R. Turbo]

33. Youre welcome!

[TexasBushwhacker]

24. When Harry Met Sally

Grosse Point Blank (action rom-com?) - I love John Cusack

[Hamlette]

30. Gross Point is on the list

saw Sally/Harry again, just last week.

[smirkymonkey]

44. "When Harry Met Sally" is one of the best!

I love that movie!

[MLAA]

26. I am self medicating with Hallmark Channel sappy Christmas movies tonight!

[3catwoman3]

34. I am ridiculously fond of a couple of Hallmark...

...Christmas movies - A Crown for Christmas and A Very Merry Mixup.

[MLAA]

38. I will look for the Crown one...and I enjoyed the Merry Mix up.

I racked my brain for a few minutes...and finally remembered where I had seen the young woman in the Merry Mix Up ...she played Cybil Shepard’s daughter in a sit com I enjoyed way back in the late 90s

[beveeheart]

41. Me too. My guilty pleasure - both of the Hallmark channels

and their Christmas Holiday movies.

[applegrove]

27. "Much Ado About Nothing" directed by Kenneth Branagh

[avebury]

36. Try some of the classic rom coms

Desk Set (Tracy & Hepburn) and there are a few other Tracy and Hepburn movies
Bringing Up Baby (Grant & Hepburn)
Holiday (Grant & Hepburn)
Pillow Talk (Doris Day and Rock Hudson)
Father Goose (Grant and Leslie Caron)
That Touch of Mink (Doris Day & Cary Grant)
Arsenic and Old Lace
Auntie Mame (Rosalind Russell version)
The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer (Myrna Loy, Cary Grant, Shirley Temple)
The Egg and I (Claudette Colbert & Fred McMurray and introduced Ma & Pa Kettle)
The Glass Bottom Boat (Doris Day & Rod Taylor)
Housboat (Grant & Sophie Loren)
Monster In Law (Jane Fonda and Jennifer Lopez) not rom com but really funny
The Philidelphia Story (Grant, Stewart, Hepburn)
Sabrins (Audry Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart)
That Funny Feeling (Sandra Dee and Bobby Darren)
If A Man Answers (Sandra Dee and Bobby Darren)
Yours Mine and Ours (the original with Lucille Ball and Henry Fonda)

What A Way to Go (Shirley McClaine, Jerry Van Dyke, Dean Martin, Paul Newman, Gene Kelley and Robert Mitchum) one of my favorites


There are boat loads of classic rom coms out there.

Not classic but great:
The American President
Dave

[smirkymonkey]

45. Great list!

I love the old classics!

[Hamlette]

48. Great list

Some I've seen "in there day" but I can watch a good rom com over and over and I'd forgotten some of these. Arsenic and Old Lace is a rom com? I remember it as a great black comedy. I'll have to see it again.

[Sedona]

37. Fifty First Dates

50 First Dates
http://imdb.com/rg/an_share/title/title/tt0343660/
Adam Sandler - Drew Barrymore
Filmed in beautiful Hawaii locations...
Henry Roth is a man afraid of commitment up until he meets the beautiful Lucy. They hit it off and Henry think he's finally found the girl of his dreams, until he discovers she has short-term memory loss and forgets him the very next day.

It's adorable.

[Lars39]

40. While you were sleeping was pretty good.

[IADEMO2004]

43. List of 30 from IMDB

http://www.imdb.com/list/ls055193043/?ref_=tt_rls_2

[Hamlette]

47. good list

thanks for posting. I tried other imdb lists for rom coms but they had bad stuff on it so I thought I'd look elsewhere. Here.

[smirkymonkey]

46. I happen to be a fan of the old Thin Man films with William Powell and Myrna Loy.

They are such a great, witty, fun couple who solve crimes with their dog Asta. I highly recommend them.

[red dog 1]

49. As Good As It Gets (1997)

Probably the best romantic comedy I've ever seen.

Jack Nicholson and Helen Hunt won the Academy Award for Best Actor and Best Actress, respectively, making "As Good As It Gets" the most recent film to win both of the lead acting awards.

Nicholson & Hunt also won Golden Globe awards for their acting in this great comedy,
and it won the Golden Globe Award for "Best Film - Musical or Comedy"

[Hamlette]

51. it is a great movie!

I'd never liked Helen Hunt until I saw that movie.

[Hamlette]

50. I'd forgotten how good Moonstruck is.

Came while looking at some of the excellent selections on this thread.

[The empressof all]

52. Have you tried Korean dramas

Drama fever or viki.com. DramaFever has goblin which is pure escapist bliss

[BendigoJeff]

53. I watched this the other day

http://www.blu-ray.com/Paperback-Hero/732525/

Hugh Jackman and Claudia Karvan are wonderful. Charming movie.

[Laffy Kat]

54. And oldie but so romantic:

"Love in the Afternoon". Audrey Hepburn, Gary Cooper, 1957.

[SammyWinstonJack]

56. My fav. Recently watched

Love Actually
While You Were Sleeping
Practical Magic
Bridget Jones Diary
Somethings Gotta Give
The Holiday
Sleepless in Seattle
Benny and Joon
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Music and Lyrics
Someone Like You
Under the Tuscan Sun
French Kiss
Serenidity
As Good As it Gets
The Other Sister
Mystic Pizza
No Reservations

[Hamlette]

58. great list

thanks! a few I've not seen and a few I'd forgotten

[demmiblue]

57. Last Holiday:

[Hamlette]

59. looks great, I'll give it a try.

[tanyev]

60. Off the beaten path: Shooting Fish, Sliding Doors, A Little Romance

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If you like dance, Strictly Ballroom and Cuban Fury are both tons of fun.

[Hamlette]

61. I loved strictly Ballroom. I'll check the others. Thanks

[demmiblue]

62. The Decoy Bride:

[demmiblue]

63. Pane e tulipani (Bread & Tulips)

[demmiblue]

64. Monsoon Wedding, Outsourced, Man Up

OK, I'm done!

[Hamlette]

65. I looooove Man Up. I'll check out the others. Thanks!!!!