Archive for the ‘Romance A La Mode’ Category

Jess (Parminder Nagra) eats, sleeps, and dreams of soccer.  Only one problem….her parents forbid her to play.  They want her to learn how to cook, dress like a proper lady and meet a handsome Indian boy but Jess has something more in store for herself & for them!  When she befriends Juliette “Jules” Paxton (Keira Knightley), Jules convinces her to try out for the girls soccer team and well…..she makes it!  Now all Jess has to do is hide if from EVERYONE she knows! To make things even more complicated, Jules & Jess’s relationship hits a bumpy road when the hearthrob girls soccor coach (Johnathan Rhys Meyes) enters the picture.  Can Jess keep her secret from her family? Will the two girls stay friends?  No matter what, one things for sure, Bend It Like Beckham is one heck of a romatic soccer comedy that will have you cheering.

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An exquisite story about the essences of love, Monsoon Wedding captures the very raw embrace of all forms of love in its most tenderness of degrees.  Monsoon Wedding centers around the big Indian wedding between Aditi (Vasundhara Das) & Hermant (Parvin Dabas).  It reveals the preparations & uncertainty that go with the ceremony from the timid-like bride, whose far from shy, to the groom, who’s trying to make the best of it, to the stressed out parents who are at their wits end to the overwhelming family and guests who love to put in their opinion.  With many weddings, there’s happiness but there is also sadness & even hate & Aditi & Hermant’s wedding tosses it all together! In Monsoon Wedding secrets are discoverd, new love is unveiled and shocking truths are reveiled. 

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What would you do if the man you loved had a successful career, an amazing family who cherished you like you were their very own and who loved you unconditionally?  Well, 2 out of 3 aint bad!  Lucy (Sandra Bullock) is in love with a successful man and his family just adores her.  There’s only one problem…..the mans she loves doesn’t know she exists.  While working at the subway station, her crush (Peter Gallagher) gets mugged & knocked down unconsciously.  Lucy saves him from a running train but he ends up in a coma.  With all the commotion, a fabrication of lies develop and the web just keeps getting stickier by the second, especially when her dream boy’s brother (Bill Pullman) starts to develop feelings for her!

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Demi Moore and Patrick Swayze star in this stunning romantic drama.  Sam (Swayze) and Molly (Moore) are the perfect couple;they are happily both in love & in life.  A deadly tragedy occurs however, when the both of them are held up at night, leaving only one to survive. 

Molly is mourning the lost of her love one, feeling completely alone….but she’s not alone.  Sam is alive…..in spirit!  His soul is not at rest and with the help of a psychic reader (Whoopie Goldberg), Sam must find out why.  Its not until clues start to form that Sam realizes that his death was not accidental and that Molly may be next.  Ghost is a love story that shows that even in the afterlife, love lingers on!

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Will Hunting (Matt Damon) is a troubled young man from the streets of Boston, a janitor in an prestigous university and a genius!  A professor assigns one of the hardest mathematical questions in history to his students.  What would take others days or even weeks to solve, Will manages to do in seconds.  The professor strikes a deal with Will that forces him to see a shrink (Robin Williams).  What starts out as a shaky encounter ends up being a major part in the mental healing of Will’s life.  Good Will Hunting is a heart warming movie that shows the path one young man goes through to set his life right.

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William Thacker (Hugh Grant)  is a lonely travel book store owner who lives with a not-so-hygiene flatmate.  His world gets turned upside down when movie star, Anna Scott (Julia Roberts), visits his little store and again when he meets her on the streets and yet one more time when she ends up at his very home!  Their encounters turn into more than friendly acquantainces but can a normal guy and a famous movie star make true love work or is Anna merely acting?  Notting Hill will leave you in romantic knots.

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Dr. T. (Richard Gere) is one of the top gynecologists around.  All the women want to see him.  To many men, that devotion would be intoxicating.  Too bad the true women in his life don’t seem to feel that same for him.  His wife is a total mess with a mental breakdown, his daugthers are having their own little crisis and his inlaws are boozing it up for the upcoming wedding.  To make it more complicated, Dr. T. is falling for someone that is not his wife.  Talk about a mess.  Welcome to the life of Dr. T and The Women.

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All Amanda Shelton (Sarah Michelle Gellar) wanted was to keep her mom’s restaurant going.  The only problem with that is that she’s not the best of cooks.  Amanda needed a little luck or a little magic in her life and then presto…see meets business executive Tom Bartlett (Sean Patrick Flanery).  Totally not able to commit to anything but his job, Tom finds that he can’t seem to get Amanda out of his mind.  Unable to let Tom go either, Amanda lures him with her now spectacular mouth watering cuisines but will Tom be able to find it within himself to follow his heart or will he end up breaking Amanda’s & the magic they share.  After all, food and love are Simply Irresistible, especially together.

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Renee Zellweger is at it again in Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason.  Bridget has finally found true love with sexy lawyer Mark Darcy (Colin Firth) so why is she so nervous?  Could it be because Mark is spending way too much time with his female business partner?  Or is it perhaps because she’s now working with her ex-lover, ex-boss, sexy playboy Daniel Cleaver(Hugh Grant)?  Perhaps it might just be her International drug trafficking allegations! Bridget is on one heck of a rollercoaster this time around.

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After a chemistry school assignment, Zora (Mia Long) finds out her mom’s most kept secret….she was artifically inseminated!!!  Destined to find her real father, Zora stumbles on an even bigger secret that not even her mom knew….that her father is white!  Her parents, two people who are more opposite that anything you can imagine, meet for the first time & it just gets crazy from that point on.  Hal (Ted Danson) is a country talkin used cars salesman and Sarah (Whoopie Goldberg) is an owner of an African bookstore.  Can Zora’s new found family get to know each other or will they end up killing each other!  Only this type of excitement can be Made in America

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Mary (Jennifer Lopez) is the most dedicated wedding planner you could ever meet.  She brings people together, calms the in-laws, prevents devasting events from happening…..she is just an incredible wedding planner!  Sadly, she can’t bring that same joy to herself because there is no one to share it with.  One day while running errands an unusual event occurs to Mary & she is rescued by the very sexy Dr. Steve Nelson (Matthew McConaughey).  At last a man to sweep her off of her feet!  The scenario gets complicated though when she finds out that Steve is also the groom of her next big wedding plan!

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Landon (Shane West) and his crew are the most popular kids in high school.  When a practical joke goes terribly wrong, Landon, as punishment ends up in crutches, tuturing kids on the weekend and gaining the lead in the high school play.  His leading lady in the play, churchy preaching very unpopular Jamie Sullivan (Mandy Moore), is the last straw.  Reluctant to have anything to do with her, Landon finds himself more & more in her company.  Confused by it all but moved none the less, Landon embarks on a road of self preservations and love but like many situations, all good things must come to an end.

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Kate (Moira Kelly) is a ice figure skater with a fiery attitude.  Doug (D.B. Sweeney) is a passionate ice hockey player.  Their lives collide when Kate loses her skating partner and Doug misses his hockey chance.  Now Kate’s coach offers Doug a deal that he can’t refuse. Doug also realizes that he can’t refuse something else….Kate!

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Melanie Parker (Michelle Pfeiffer) is a single mother architect who is trying to be the best at both and finding it very challenging.  Jack Taylor (Geoge Cloony) is a single father and successful columnist for a newspaper who is aching to put to wraps a political scandel piece that he has been working on for months.  They both have one dilemma; they need someone to watch over their child while they work on perhaps the biggest assignments of their careers.  When Melanie and Jack meet at the daycare, they decide to help each other out but things get sticky when Melanie accidentally loses Jack’s daugher.  Their day is filled with challenges, accidents, mishaps, terror, dissappointment and exhaustion but through it all it ends up being One Fine Day.

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Frances ’Baby’ Houseman (Jennfer Grey) and her family are off to a high-end vacation spot for the summer.  Filled with millionaires of all sorts, Baby becomes a mission for one particular successful coming of age young real estate man.  Baby, however, is more interested in the complete opposite, bad boy dance instructor Johnny Castle (Patrick Swayze).  When Baby volunteers to help out one of the workers at the resort by performing a dance show with Johnny, things really heat up for the two of them but that passion is short lived when Johnny is accused of a crime.  Dirty Dancing is a coming of age story of first love that relates to that old proverb of don’t judge a book by its cover.

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All Sara (Julia Stiles) wanted to do was become a professional ballerina.  A serious tragedy invades her life though and all of her dreams are pushed aside.  Forced to move and start anew in a new home, a new neighborhood and a new school, Sara learns that its not easy trying to fit in where your not wanted.  There are always those few however, that look past that.  Chenille (Kerry Washington) introduces Sara to her friends and shows her the ropes.  Sara is also introduced to  Derek (Sean Patrick Thomas), Chenille’s brother.  Sparks immediately form between the two but they live in entirely two different worlds.  Can these two high school seniors overcome their personal demons and lean on each other for friendship and even more? 

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Harry and Sally (Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan), who met briefly in college, decide to share a car trip ride from Chicago to New York.  They didn’t get along all that well then & yet they somehow did in their corky way!  After their trip however, they parted separate ways into their unknown futures.  Well, Eleven years later, these two strangers meet again and this time around, a friendship develops….and perhaps something more? When Harry Met Sally is a geniune romantic comedy!

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Love holds a special place in our hearts….especially our first love.  Meet Lloyd (John Cusack).  He’s a high school misfit with bright plans for the future but no clear directon on how to obtain them.  Meet Diane (Ione Skye).  She a beautiful straight A popular student who seems to have it all together but is just as lost as most high school students.  Lloyd has been in love with Diane for as long as he could remember.  When he finally gets the chance to show her, utter amazement occurs….she returns the sentiment.  Two people more different than night and day somehow seem to fit so well together.  Diane’s father however, hates Lloyd & will do anything to keep her away from him. 

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Peter Colt (Paul Bettany) is a prominent tennis player that has been competing in Wimbledon for many years but never quite reaching the top.  Giving up the ideal of ever winning Wimbledon, Peter decides to give it one more shot but even that shot is not aiming too well for him that is, until he meets Lizzi.  Lizzi Bradbury (Kirsten Dunst) is a rising young tennis athlete who’s main focus is to be number one.  When they both meet, chemistry forms between the two.    Will their bond break their concentration of winning or will it bring them closer to winning the best thing life can serve you….love.

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What would you do if a millionaire asks you to spend the week with him as his lady companion…in all areas? Tough decision to  make right! That’s the proposition that Vivian Ward (Julia Roberts) is given from corporate executive Edward Lewis (Richard Gere).  Can she resist Edward’s charms & stay on professional playing ground or is it Edward that can’t resist her, a hooker of all people!!!  A knocking performance by Julia Roberts, both Julia and Richard light up the screen in Pretty Woman.

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Lucy Kelson (Sandra Bullock) is a Harvard grad attorney.  George Wade (Hugh Grant) is the wealthy recipient of Wade industries.  When Lucy petitions Mr. Wade to save a community center in her neighborhood from being destroyed by his company’s contract, Mr. Wade makes a deal with her in which she has to work for him.  Accepting the terms, Lucy gets more than she bargains for and realizes she must leave before she gets too emotional attached but Mr. Wade won’t let her go that easily.  A romantic comedy, Two Weeks Notice is sure to please!

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Erica Barry (Diane Keaton), a very successful playwright writer, decides to head out to her country home to relax and work on her next big project.  Well and behold, her plans take a dive into unexpected circumstances when her daughter Marin (played by Amada Peet) decides to come up at the same time to spend some quality time with a man old enough to be her father!  Meet Harry (Jack Nicholson)!  Harry is a successful entertainment guru who just can’t get enough of the young women!  While at the house, Harry falls prey to a medical emergency and is forced to stay longer in the country than expected.  Bored to tears, his only companion after Marin leaves is her mother but Harry just doesn’t get along with women his age but maybe Erica may just be the first and more!  Something’s Gotta Give just keeps on giving.

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Amanda (Monica Potter) has the worst luck when it comes to men.  When she finds her boyfriend in bed with a model, she leaves him and vales to give up on men altogether.  Searching for a new place to live, her apartment hunting ironically lands her with 4 roommates….4 beautiful model roommates!  Also, just as she’s about given up on men, she meets Jim Winston (Freddie Prinze, Jr.), yummy man candy who happens to be her new neighbor!  Heart pumping fast, knees giving out, daydreaming….Amanda has got it bad.  Just when Amanda feels she has finally met Mr. Right…things get out of hand when she witnesses a murder by the hands of her Mr. Right!  All of a sudden everything is so terribly wrong; bad men are after her and her friends & the man she’s fallen for has committed murder! 

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Meet Jerry MaGuire (Tom Cruise)….sports agent extradonaire!!!  Destined for grateness as one of the top sports agents in the industry, Jerry hits below rock bottom.  With only one client left, hot-headed Rod Tidwell (played by Cuba Gooding Jr.) and sweet lovable Dorothy (played by Renee Zellweger) and her little boy (played by Jonathan Lipnicki) , the only other person who believes in him, Jerry must evaluate his priorities in life and love and make things right.

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After dropping out of film school, Isabel (Kate Hudson) goes to Paris to visit her soon-to-be mommy sister Roxy(Naomi Watts) and comfort her after her husband just ups & leaves her.  While in Paris, the two sisters cope with their failures in life & lean on each other for moral support.  Isabel leans on more than her sister though when she shamelessly starts a romance with a mature man.  Not only is it strange that he’s older than her, of all the people in Paris, she gets involved with a family member of Roxy’s ex-husband!  What a web we weave!

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Nick Marshall (Mel Gibson) is a sexy, lover of all women advertising executive that’s at the top of his game.  When the position for Creative Director opens up at his company, Nick is ecstatic because his time to lead has finally come.  A big surprise however, awaits Nick when he finds out that the job has been landed by Darcy McGuire (Helen Hunt), a newcomer to the company.  The new campaign for the company is geared towards women and his boss felt Darcy was the ideal candidate.  After the big announcement, Nick has a life changing accident that he uses in his favor to try to out do Darcy and take her job right out from under her….He can now hear what women think! 

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Abbey (Janeane Garofalo) is quite successful as a radio talk show host personality but when it comes to relationships, she’s as insecure as it comes.  Noelle (Uma Thurman)  is a raging beautiful model who is gorgeous on the outside but feels empty on the inside.  Afraid of rejection by the opposite sex, Abbey tells Brian (Ben Chaplin), a listener that wants to meet her and thank her for her help, that she’s tall, thin and blond.  Only issue with that statement is that she just described Noelle and so the drama begins! The Truth About Cats and Dogs is a romantic comedy that shows you that love can come in all shapes and sizes.

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Brian Finn (Ben Stiller) and Jake Schram (Edward Norton) have been best friends since childhood.  Growing up though, the duo was not always so…the duo was a trio!  Meet Anna (Jenna Elfman), their tomboyish bestfriend.  Well Anna has grown into a sexy high-powered business woman and the boys are in pure infactuation.  When the trio meet up again after years of separation, emotions flare up.  To make the situation even more awkward, both Brian and Jake have devoted their lives to religion!  A comedic trio, Keeping the Faith will have you believing in laugh-out-loud comedy.

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Toula (Nia Vardalos) is 30 years old, smart, works at her family’s restaurant, single and Greek!!!  In Toula’s world if your 30 & unmarried, you might as well be 100 years old!  She decides to do a complete makeover of her life to better herself….who would have know that Ian Miller (John Corbett) would come with the package? Sexy, romantic, lovable Ian is everything a woman could want except one thing….he’s not Greek and thats a whole lot of Greek drama.  Can the couple pull it off?  My Big Fat Greek Wedding is a great romantic comedy with a big fat mixture of everyday family togetherness.

Frankie (Michelle Pfeiffer) is a lonely waitress that works at a diner in NYC, has a great gay best friend and has given up on letting people in after a really bad emotional breakup.  Johnnie (Al Pacino) is an ex-convent trying to start his life over in the right direction and one hell of a cook.  Their lives intertwine when Johnnie lands a job at the diner.  Can two lonely souls find it within each other to releash their past demons and open up to the possibility of finding love and enjoying life agagin?  Frankie & Johnnie will leave you breathless.

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Pierce Bronsan and Julianne Moore star is this romantic comedy about two power divorce lawyers who are on top of their game.  The question is….which one is the best?  A court boxing match, Bronsan and Moore go head to head to prove which one is the best divorce lawyer.  Things gets topsy turvy though when their own marriage is on the rocks….now who will represent them?

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A classice remake, Pride & Prejudice is a wonderful love story featuring Keira Knightley as Elizabeth Bennet & Matthew Macfadyen as the infamous Mr. Darcy.  Matchmaking & mayhen erupt when a dashing ‘husband’ prospect is up for grabs in an area full of women looking to find their mate.  Elizabeth Bennet however, has no interest what so ever in the frivious actions of landing a significant other but one glance of Mr. Darcy changes everything. 

Mr. Darcy is an uptight conservative who appears to run his life with a silver fist but not all things are what they seem.  Can two proud people come together to find happiness as one or are they destined to live with their own prejudices!

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An amazing twisted love story, House of Flying Daggers is a pure cinematography and martial arts masterpiece!  Xiao Mei (Ziyi Zhang) is a blind performer who is captured by soldiers of the Tang Dynasty.  Made a prisoner to the officers, Mei’s affections for one in particular soldier frightens her yet captivates her at the same time.  The Tang Dynasty soldier’s affections towards Mei also takes an unexpected directions that leads them both into unknown territory.  Innocent to the naked eye, all is not what it appears to be though in the House of Flying Daggers. 

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A classice remake, Pride & Prejudice is a wonderful love story featuring Keira Knightley as Elizabeth Bennet & Matthew Macfadyen as the infamous Mr. Darcy.  Matchmaking & mayhen erupt when a dashing ‘husband’ prospect is up for grabs in an area full of women looking to find their mate. Elizabeth has no interest what so ever in the frivious actions of landing a significant other but one glance with Mr. Darcy changes everything. 

Mr. Darcy is an uptight conservative who appears to run his life with a silver fist but is that really him? Can two proud people come together to find happiness as one or are they destined to live with their own prejudices?

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