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"From culture writer and GQ contributor Scott Meslow, an in-depth celebration of the romantic comedy's modern golden era and its role in our culture, tracking the genre from its heyday in the 80s and the 90s, its slow decline in the 2000s, and its explosive reemergence in the age of streaming, featuring exclusive interviews with the directors, writers, and stars of the iconic films that defined the genre"--
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2024.
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"She's rewriting his love story. But can she rewrite her own? Emma Wheeler desperately longs to be a screenwriter. She's spent her life studying, obsessing over, and writing romantic comedies-good ones! That win contests! But she's also been the sole caretaker for her kind-hearted dad, who needs full-time care. Now, when she gets a chance to re-write a script for famous screenwriter Charlie Yates-The Charlie Yates! Her personal writing god!-it's a...
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In the 1934 classic “It Happened One Night”, heiress Claudette Colbert races away from the altar and a conventional marriage and throws herself into a wisecracking rough-and-tumble affair with Clark Gable. The new brand of movies following in the wake of Capra's kooky masterpiece-and the women starring in them-are the focus of Kendall's “The Runaway Bride”, a look at the films that mirrored the climate of the Great Depression while at the...
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[2019]
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English
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"Romantic-comedy-obsessed Annie Cassidy dreams of being the next Nora Ephron. She spends her days writing internet content, rewatching Sleepless in Seattle, and waiting for her movie-perfect meet cute. If she could just find her own Tom Hanks--a man who's sweet, sensitive, and possibly owns a houseboat--her problems would disappear and her life would be perfect. But Tom Hanks is nowhere in sight. When a movie starts filming in her neighborhood and...
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A backstage look at the making of Nora Ephron's revered trilogy--When Harry Met Sally, You've Got Mail, and Sleepless in Seattle--which brought romantic comedies back to the fore, and an intimate portrait of the beloved writer/director who inspired a generation of Hollywood women, from Mindy Kaling to Lena Dunham.
In I'll Have What She's Having entertainment journalist Erin Carlson tells the story of the real Nora Ephron and how she reinvented...
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[2010]
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Nederlands
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Matty is the mother of three, works at the post office, and has a cheating husband who has run off with one of his students. A fender bender at the grocery store changes her life when she meets Johnny, a much younger man. After a romance ensues between the two, Matty's wandering husband comes back home. Caught between the two men in her life, she must decide if she will settle back into the life she was leading, or to break into something new and...
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[2021]
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"Arch-nemeses Emma, a die-hard romantic, and more-practical minded Sophia find themselves competing against one another for a coveted first-prize trip to a film festival in Los Angeles . . . what happens if their rivalry turns into a romance?"--Amazon.com
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[2017]
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English
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A modern-day princess, rebelling against the royal obligations, explores Rome on her own. She meets an American newspaperman who, seeking an exclusive story, pretends ignorance of her true identity. But his plan falters as they fall in love. Stylishly directed by William Wyler, it's a romantic comedy that ranks as one of the most enjoyable films of all time.
11) The little hours
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[2017]
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English
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A young servant fleeing from his master takes refuge at a convent full of emotionally unstable nuns in the Middle Ages. Introduced as a deaf blind man, he must fight to hold his cover as the nuns try to resist temptation.
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[2018]
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English
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A native New Yorker Rachel Chu accompanies her longtime boyfriend, Nick Young, to his best friend2s wedding in Singapore. Excited about visiting Asia for the first time but nervous about meeting Nick2s family, Rachel is unprepared to learn that Nick has neglected to mention a few key details about his life. It turns out that he is not only the scion of one of the country2s wealthiest families but also one of its most sought-after bachelors.
14) How do you know?
Pub. Date
2011
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English
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A professional softball player discovers she is in the middle of a love triangle after she falls for two different men and wonders when it comes to love, how do you know?
15) Little Italy
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[2018]
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English
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A sizzling comedy about two lifelong friends whose romance is threatened by their parents' rival pizzerias.
16) Paris
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[2010]
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Français
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While waiting for a heart transplant that could save his life, Pierre reunites with his sister and her lively children. This rediscovery of his family and observation of the teeming streets outside his window give Pierre hope, and a new sense of how he might spend the time still left to him. A story about the middle-class and bourgeois, immigrants and students, fashion models and the homeless, and all the lovers and strangers whose paths could cross...
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[2014]
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English
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Paolo, an Italian who drives a Paris tour bus, has just proposed to his true love, the German stewardess, Greta, when the young French beauty, Cecile pulls up beside his bus on her bicycle; and, in short order, Paolo, following some very bad advice from his friend, Derek, finds himself with a German fiancee, a French "wife", two Australian children who call him "Papa", and his life upside-down.
19) She's all that
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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A jock is dumped by his girlfriend right before prom. His ego takes control, boasting, and betting that he can turn any girl into the ultimate Prom Queen.
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c2005
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English
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Sleepwear, a labor dispute, and singing come together for perhaps the first and only time in film history in The Pajama Game. In a small Iowa town, the main employer is the SleepTite Pajama Company, where the mostly female workforce is demanding a badly needed 7 1/2 cent-an-hour pay increase. Competing firms wages have already gone up, so why not theirs? Babe, the headstrong leader of the workers' Union stages a garment factory showdown with management,...
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