Love is in the air! Well, for some at least. While certain people may view February 14 as just another day of the month, to others it’s a perfect day to express requited love with friends or that special someone. So, during this month of love, whether you’re spending it single or coupled up, these are the top 10 greatest romantic comedies to watch.
10. P.S. I Love You (2007)
Holly Kennedy grieves the harsh loss of her husband, Gerry, after losing the love of her life to a brain tumor. What she doesn’t know is that, before passing, her husband left behind 10 letters to help to soothe the painful wound of his absence and to allow her to move into a new life. This heartthrob of a movie will be sure to make you both smile and cry, so make sure to have some tissues nearby.
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9. A Walk To Remember (2002)
This tearjerker follows the story of an outgoing, popular high school senior named Landon Carter who falls for Jamie Sullivan, the shy, religious girl he and his friends always poked fun at. All is well within their small North Carolina world, until Jamie reveals she is suffering from a deathly case of leukemia. Despite this tragic hitch in their relationship, these two star crossed lovers make it until the inevitable end–keeping a true vow of “til’ death do us part.”
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8. The Wedding Planner (2001)
Mary Fiore is a successful and determined wedding planner; she is a perfectionist who ensures every single one of her bride-to-be’s weddings are pitch perfect, throws marital advice around like confetti…and she just so happens to be terribly single. While celebrating her newest wedding assignment, she stumbles and trips into the arms of Steve Edison, a dreamy doctor who she begins to fall in love with. Little does she know that he is the groom-to-be in the big wedding she’s planning and prepping.
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7. My Best Friend’s Wedding (1997)
Julianne Potter and Micheal O’Neal have always been best friends, and as kids they both made a promise to each other: to get married if either were still single by the ripe age of 28. Time has passed and now, four days before O’Neal’s 28th birthday, he’s announced that he’s marrying a beautiful 20-year-old woman named Kimberly. Suddenly, Potter comes to the world-shaking realization that she is in love with her soon to be married best friend. What is she to do? Should she go to all costs to stop the wedding? Or should she sit back and watch the love of her life love someone else?
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6. 10 Things I Hate About You (1999)
Different from the rest, this romantic comedy is a combination of two love stories. Kat Stratford is an ambitious and blunt high school senior who isn’t the most sociable, unlike her sister, Bianca, who is the pretty, popular girl of Stadium High School. Bianca has it all, except for one thing: a boyfriend. There’s one rule within their household, and that rule doesn’t permit Bianca to date until her older sister Kat does. However, the new kid at their school is determined to change this ludicrous rule. Cameron James, a sophomore who falls head over heels for Bianca, takes matters into his own hands and recruits “bad boy” Patrick Verona to take Kat out, in hopes she’ll fall for him.
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5. 27 Dresses (2008)
A perfect example of “always the bridesmaid, never the bride,” Jane Nichols, a full time bridesmaid, is a selfless woman who takes total responsibility and charge for her friends’ weddings. At one of the many weddings she’s attended, she meets a man named Malcolm Doyle, but refers to himself as Kevin, who is fascinated by her bustling, busy life within the wedding industry and continuously attempts to sweep her off her feet, but to no avail. This is because Jane has had the biggest, most heart pumping crush on her boss for as long as she can remember, but when her younger sister, Tess Nichols, comes in to visit, she snags her poor sister’s boss and the two eventually become engaged. Heartbroken, Jane must take the necessary steps to learn and realize what, or who, is good for her.
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4. 13 Going On 30 (2004)
“Thirty, flirty, and thriving!” Thirteen-year-old Jenna Rink would kill to be anything like the women in Poise Magazine. Just so happens that, while celebrating her birthday, she gets her wish. Transported to a new world, Jenna finds herself captured in her dream life. Nice apartment, cute celebrity boyfriend, and an amazing job working at the Poise Magazine headquarters. Still stuck in her 13-year-old mindset, Jenna believes adult life is easy and fun, but when problems begin to hit the fan, she starts to miss her old life…especially her old best friend Matt Flamhaff, whom she called Matty. When reunited as adults, he begins to jog her memory on life since her 13th birthday, and she realizes how awful she’s treated him over the years, all to just fit in. As time goes by, he and Jenna spend more time together and she starts to acquire feelings for Matt…all in too little time, as he is engaged to another woman. Moral of the movie: appreciate and recognize the good things you have in life; don’t waste time chasing what doesn’t chase you back. (Spoiler alert, this movie has a good ending, don’t worry.)
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3. Letters To Juliet (2010)
While on a honeymoon trip to Verona, Italy, with her constantly preoccupied fiancee Victor, New York Times fact checker Sophie Hall stumbles across the wall where heartbroken women leave letters asking for advice from Juliet Capulet. Invested, she discovers a letter dating back to 1957, which she writes back to. After sending the letter out, the owner of this ancient letter finds her, and together, along with her grandson Charlie, they embark on a journey to find her long-lost lover of 50 years. While on this trip, Sophie begins to fall for Charlie, but what to do? Should she call off her wedding to Victor and run off into the Italian countryside with her new love interest? Or leave Italy and follow through with her wedding? Decisions, decisions.
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2. The Notebook (2004)
Throwback time, this love story takes place in the 1940’s. On a warm summer’s evening, Noah Calhoun, a hardworking young man meets Allie Hamilton, a studious girl who comes from a wealthy family, and it’s love at first sight for him. As the summer progresses, so does their love, until Allie’s parents force the two apart. In the seven years that pass, Noah leaves their small town to serve in World War 2, and Allie becomes involved with another man and soon gets engaged to him. But, when Noah returns after the war ends, he and Allie are reunited once again and it is plain to see that their once vibrant love has not dwindled in frequency.
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1. Serendipity (2001)
Is it destiny or pure chance when two souls meet? When out shopping for Christmas presents, Jonathan Traeger and Sara Thomas exchange a meet cute within a Bloomingdale’s and hit it off instantly. A minor problem, however, is that Sara has a boyfriend. Strongly believing in destiny, she decides to let fate determine what will happen between the two of them, and when years go by without any sort of contact, they begin to give up on the idea of them together. But what if, for love, you must seek it yourself? What if you guide fate to your happily ever after?
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