In no alphabetical or chronological order, these are my selection of the best love stories all year round and they are my all time favorites. Some of these movies are worth watching again and it never fails to evoke emotion in me after all these years. Others are just plain cozy and hugely entertaining with a dose of humour thrown in and they make a perfect choice for lazing around on sunday afternoon if I'm not shopping at the malls or visiting the in-laws and relatives or doing spring cleaning in the house.
this movie has a sequel but I really like the 1st one better. a story about a singleton who's loving every minute of her single life and has a major crush on her publisher boss, played perfectly by hugh grant and later with the humans right lawyer, the gentlemanly looking colin firth. I don't know what is it but there's something about british men - perfect gentlemen no?
this romantic movie is about a girl named maggie who has cold feet many times before her exchanging vows ceremony that she had dumped 3 men at the altar and as a result, getting tabloid fame and dubbed the runaway bride by the local community. after some factual errors a reporter made on her life story and getting fired for it, he decided to visit the small town and write an in-depth articles about maggie in a bid to get back his job. what he finds there is not only the love of his life but also a girl who's actually afraid to explore her own feelings and emotions hence the many cold feets. will she repeat the same act with this reporter?
the movie that somehow inspired my blog title has meg ryan having her life turned upside down after listening to a radio talk show one night of a boy who desperately wants his father to remarry after his mother died. A touching story of how one woman's determination to find out more about this boy and his father forced her to make drastic actions in the course of her life.
I like this movie. although adam sandler can be a wee bit too annoying with his wearisome jokes and all too familiar routines, he is more than makes up for this one. his tirelessly ingenious plans of wooing drew barrymore to get her to fall in love with him over and over again for countless times due to her permanent memory loss after a horrible accident (she only has memories before the incident) is undoubtedly the best original moments so far. match him with drew barrymore and rob schneider of the deuce bigalow: male gigolo sleepy hit, you'll get 11/2 hours of loaded fun!
banking on the popularity of internet in the mid 90's, this movie is about meg ryan, an owner of a quaint bookstore who has a cyberchat friendship with an internet friend while being engaged to someone, without knowing the internet friend is also her arch rival because his giant plush bookstore had overtaken her bookstore's clients forcing her to close down hers. I also know a friend of mine got hitched this way...and I'm happy to report that they are bliss
fully married!
fully married!
the latest love story that recently entered my list of all time favorites. any movie that has keanu reeves and sandra bullock in it is a MUST SEE! this movie has a bit of supernatural element to it, nevertheless it is a sweet love story. about a doctor (sandra) who falls in love with a guy (keanu) from the past and their ways of communicating with each other is thru letters in the postbox. fenin already? nevermind, just go watch the movie and enjoy it!
I never knew drew barrymore can be so goofy and cutesy at the same time. it's about this geeky reporter named josie who has never had a boyfriend in her entire adolescence life hence the title never been kissed. opportunity comes knocking on her door when she was given the chance to live up to the glamorous high school life she never gets and becomes the ultimate prom queen.
can a man and a woman have the best of pure platonic friendship without the love-sex thing? yes, if your male buddy is gay and no, if he's as hottie as dermot mulroney and already has a rich girlfriend like cameron diaz. in this movie, julia is the bad girl trying desperately to win back her best friend's love from his fiancee. julia can play any bad girl roles she wants to but she still is the same pretty woman with a big heart in this movie. and I luv the scene where they merrily sang the song, say a little prayer for me....
julie andrews is very much the queen of musical movies. it is a tad too long for any hollywood movie standard (3 hours plus much like any hindustani/tamil movies are known to be) but it is a great classic and purely wonderful love story about a nun being sent to the von trapp's family as the children's governess. ohh..the songs are beautifully written and evergreen.
this is a simple lovable story about an ogre named shrek who lives in the swamp all by himself until he met loud mouth donkey, hysterically played by eddie murphy and their quest to find princess fiona locked up in the tower far far away. a charming children's movie that is. this movie has spawned 2 sequels due to its overwhelming appeal and a 3rd one is coming soon this year. my children and I love the 1st and 2nd movie. can hardly wait for the 3rd sequel. will it be as good as the 1st two?
set in the 1940's after WW2 ended, this story is about a soldier coming home and on his way home, he met this beautiful girl on a train who was impregnated by her lover and abandoned. she was afraid her father would kill her if he knew that there was no husband and out of sheer pity, keanu agreed to pose as her husband for a few days until she find courage to tell her father the truth. an indeed beautiful love story equipped with beautiful cinematography.
One of the best love stories of our time, it tells the story of rose, a young tormented girl trapped in a loveless soon-to-be arranged marriage to a wealthy man by her shrewd mother, who contemplates suicide in ending her miserable life until she was rescued by an ordinary chap named jack. who can ever forget the haunting love song, my heart will go on by celine dion?
forrest's undying love for his best friend since childhood, jenny never fades even though she has broken his heart many times. being a true simpleton that he is, forrest's earnest sincerity and selflessness has touched many hearts he met along the way. a great performance by tom hanks and no wonder he won best actor award for this role. I can watch this movie again and again and not feel bored one bit.
a rather charming story about a spinster (barbara) who accepted her fate as being so unattractive and plain that no man will ever look at her twice until she met the clumsy good looking professor played by jeff bridges. Barbara is excellent for playing the quintessential bacholerette happy with her singlehood-dom and minding her own business. I really like the ending song - I finally found someone sung by barbara herself and bryan adams.
another heartwarming love story about love at second sight. check here for more details on the story.
this is the movie that made julia roberts so famous and eventually bought her ticket to stardom. something like a cinderella story albeit with a contemporary twist. julia was a 1st time hooker looking to make some fast bucks when she met the dashingly handsome rich yuppie, richard gere driving his ferrari one fateful night and got lost in the street. the soundtracks are great and catchy.
definitely one of the greatest love story ever made to the screen. About molly who had lost her fiancee to a robbery gone awry and how sam's ghost was trying all his might to tell her that her life is in danger. I remember watching this movie with my girlfriends and we had a good cry towards the end of the movie. not only us, almost half of the audience cried mostly women. but I think whoopi goldberg was the star here and she stole most of the scenes with her crazy hilarious antics and no surprise, she bagged an award for her supporting role in this movie.
So which love story is your all time favorite?
