But I truly don’t believe in guilty pleasures, I only believe in pleasures. The Late Night actress added: “I feel like people talk about romantic comedies they love, and they say that they’re their guilty pleasures. I really just love the genre and I’ve always felt that it is an undervalued genre.” “It could be, While You Were Sleeping, starring Sandra Bullock and Bill Pullman, or Sleepless in Seattle.
“I grew up in the time of the great romantic comedy movies of the ’90s and I wasn’t a snob about any of them either,” Kaling told Audible in December 2019 of her love of rom-coms, especially those by Ephron. Mindy Kaling, for example, paid homage to the rom-com during the 2014 finale of her hit comedy The Mindy Project with the lead characters finding each other at the top of the iconic building. But when Phil Lord and Chris Miller appeared on CinemaBlend’s ReelBlend podcast to talk Across the Spider-Verse, Lord elaborated on why they decided to leave Stan Lee. The scene, which was inspired by An Affair to Remember, has since become a moment that fans have tried to recreate in their own lives. She ultimately leaves him and heads to the Empire State Building where Jonah and Sam are waiting. Annie’s lightbulb moment comes while she’s at dinner with her fiancé ( Bill Pullman) in New York City on New Year’s Eve. Listeners from all over fall in love with both Jonah and Sam, who eventually bares his soul on the show, including a reporter named Annie Reed ( Meg Ryan).ĭespite being engaged, Annie quickly realizes that Sam is the man for her. The Nora Ephron-directed film, which premiered in 1993, has stood the test of time thanks to its heartwarming story of a widowed father Sam Baldwin ( Tom Hanks) and his son, Jonah ( Ross Malinger), trying to get back on their feet after moving to Seattle where they live on a houseboat.Īfter losing his mother, Jonah realizes that his father is still very unhappy, so he calls into a radio talk show late at night to seek advice and get his dad a date. From ’30s screwballs to 21st century meet-cutes, Rock and Doris to Tom and Meg, these are the ones that had us at “hello.The Empire State building is for lovers! Sleepless in Seattle has captivated audiences - and hopeless romantics everywhere - for nearly three decades. the holiday where everyone craves both rom-com viewing time and argument-starting ranked lists, we present our choices for the 50 best rom-coms of all time. It’s a tougher balancing act than most folks would care to admit, and all the more impressive when filmmakers and actors actually do pull it off.Īnd the romantic comedies we’ve singled out here aren’t just impressive - they are, in our humble opinions, the cream of the genre crop, the best of the best. It sounds simple, right? But to make a great romantic comedy - like, a really classic, stand-the-test-of-time one - requires skill, chops, expert timing, the right chemistry among your leads and the ability to pull heartstrings and hit funny bones at the same time. Sleepless in Seattle is one of the most classic love story pairings in Hollywood history. Then, after a lot of comic shenanigans and trying circumstances, they realize that they’re really meant for each other. Or the conflict could be as easy as the fact that they just don’t like each other - in fact, they despise the other person. Now throw some obstacles in their way, from geography to class issues to vengeful exs and/or brand new beaus. Better yet, they might even be two parts of a love triangle. Find a way to pair them up - maybe they’re on a cross-country trip together, maybe they both work in the same office, maybe they’re rivals in the same industry.
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