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Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004, c1993
Language
English
Description
A woman is deeply in love with her husband despite his infidelity and frequent absences. But when he leaves town and her best friend borrows Nina's apartment for an extramarital tryst, Nina starts to reconsider her own ideas about love. Reluctantly, she enters an affair with a handsome stranger. And just when you think you understand Nina's change of heart, an astonishing secret reveals her path to true love.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"A rom-com screenwriter who doesn't believe in love or soulmates and a hopelessly romantic divorce attorney who doesa are forced together at their high school reunion fifteen years after their messy breakup and who, during a charged exchange, make a bet on the outcome of five relationships-including their own-over the next five years with the winner to be declared the ultimate authority on true love"-- Provided by publisher.
"For fans of Emily Henry,...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
"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...
Author
Series
Waiting for Tom Hanks volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
"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...
Author
Publisher
Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
Publisher
Millennium Films
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Set in New Orleans about an irreverent young woman who unexpectedly falls in love with her doctor. Marley Corbett is young, beautiful, and wildly funny, but she's afraid of opening herself up to true love and commitment. Though she uses her humor to prevent matters from getting serious, a life-changing visit to her doctor sends both of them on an eye-opening adventure of mutual discovery, leading to revelations neither thought possible.
8) Beloved
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
Français
Description
In 1964 Paris, Madeleine works as a shoe salesgirl and a part-time prostitute. She falls in love with Jaromil, a Czech doctor she picks up, and the two continue to see each other for years despite Madeleine's marriage to another man. Meanwhile, Madeleine's daughter Vera has romantic trouble of her own: she is torn between her longtime boyfriend and an unobtainable American musician.
Author
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
"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 same time helping...
10) The rebound
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
When Sandy catches her husband fooling around with her friend, she packs up the kids, moves to Manhattan, and starts a new life. Desperately needing a babysitter, Sandy turns to a handsome coffee shop clerk named Aram. Soon, unexpected sparks are flying between Sandy and her new 'nanny,' who also happens to be twenty years younger! Falling in love and freaking out, Sandy must decide if her feelings for Aram are real or is Aram catching her on 'the...
11) Private lives
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Amanda and Elyot--a witty, sophisticated married couple--divorce and marry other mates. Amanda chooses stuffy Victor, while Elyot's selection is the tiresome Sibyl. Coincidentally, both newlywed couples honeymoon at the same Swiss hotel--in adjoining suites, in fact. Amanda and Elyot realize anew that the flame of their love has never been extinguished, but when both slip off for a lover's tryst, they fall into their old pattern of ceaseless bickering....
12) Hope springs
Publisher
Sony
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Kay and Arnold are a middle-aged couple who have been married for 30 years and now are sleeping in separate rooms and barely interact in any meaningful loving way. Finally, Kay has had enough and finds a book by Dr. Feld which inspires her to sign them up for the doctor's intense week-long marriage counseling session. What follows is an insightful experience as Dr. Feld manages to help the couple understand how they have emotionally drifted apart...
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
The long-awaited follow-up to the highest-grossing romantic comedy of all time. The film reveals a Portokalos family secret that will bring the beloved characters back together for an even bigger and Greeker wedding.
"The sequel is a little like a bear hug from a beloved old relative..."--Los Angeles Times.
"Vardalos is wonderful, and 88-year-old Michael Constantine casually pockets every scene he's in."--Richard Roeper.
"Some elements are even...
15) 5 to 7
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A chance encounter on the streets of Manhattan draws twenty-something aspiring writer Brian into a passionate love affair with a glamorous French woman. But she's married, and can only meet him for hotel room trysts between the hours of five and seven. As Brian yearns for more than just two hours a day with the woman of his dreams, he learns hard won lessons about life and love.
Author
Publisher
Running Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Prepare to swoon, ugly cry, laugh, and fall in love with this officially licensed exploration of the impact and legacy of one of film's most beloved genres from Turner Classic Movies: the rom-com. Spanning decades of romantic comedies-from movies of the1930s such as It Happened One Night and the rom-com craze of the '80s and '90s including When Harry Met Sally... all the way to contemporary hits like Crazy Rich Asians, and everything in between-Falling...
Author
Publisher
Da Capo Press
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
In 1934, four movies - "It Happened One Night", "Twentieth Century", "The Thin Man" and "The Gay Divorcee" - ushered in the golden age of the Hollywood romantic ("screwball") comedy. This volume describes and analyzes the films' directors and stars.◊bIn 1934 four movies, It Happened One Night, Twentieth Century, The Thin Man, and The Gay Divorcee ,ushered in the golden age of the Hollywood romantic ("screwball") comedy. Slangy, playful, and "powerfully,...
20) In a day
Publisher
Distributed by MPI Media Group
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
A romantic comedy about a struggling young London musician who suffers a shocking encounter at the bus stop with a crude passerby. This jumpstarts an intriguing and impulsive day with an entirely different, yet quirky, mysterious young man. An afternoon of alluring and delightful indulgences with this generous stranger leads to a surprising revelation.
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